Australian outback quiz

David Whitley,

It’s tempting to think of Australia’s outback as a whole lot of nothing. But along the lonely highways, you’ll find incredible natural wonders, unusual artworks and fascinating historic sites. Test your knowledge of the outback with this quiz – and maybe learn a few things while you’re at it.

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Australian outback quiz

It’s tempting to think of Australia’s outback as a whole lot of nothing. But along the lonely highways, you’ll find incredible natural wonders, unusual artworks and fascinating historic sites. Test your knowledge of the outback with this quiz – and maybe learn a few things while you’re at it.

1 / 10

On the Stuart Highway, which crosses Australia from north to south, Kulgera, Erldunda and Stuarts Well are all examples of what?

2 / 10

In South Australian opal mining town Coober Pedy, what is unusual about the homes that around half of the population live in?

3 / 10

Which famous long distance train first covered the new railway line from Alice Springs to Darwin in February 2004?

4 / 10

The Riversleigh World Heritage Area, most notable for its prodigious concentration of dinosaur fossils, is found in which Australian state?

5 / 10

At which Australian outback icon could you admire the ancient rock art along the Mala Walk to Kantju Gorge, then watch the sunset from the Talinguru Nyakunytjaku viewing platform?

6 / 10

An hour-and-a-quarter’s drive northwest of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, 51 black steel figures stretch across the salt pans of Lake Ballard in a piece of grand scale installation art called Inside Australia. Which artist, famed for the Angel of the North in the UK, created it?

7 / 10

Which airline started out by running mail and passenger services between the Queensland outback towns of Cloncurry and Charleville?

8 / 10

At Balladonia on Western Australia’s Nullarbor Plain, there is a small museum dedicated to a crash that made global headlines in 1979. What came down to earth near here to generate the commotion?

9 / 10

In which Australian outback town can you see strange creatures at the Desert Park, cycle through Simpsons Gap and learn about Aboriginal art in the Araluen Cultural Precinct?

10 / 10

Where in South Australia do Australia’s two main outback highways – the Stuart Highway and the Eyre Highway – meet?

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Book recommendations

For more brain-teasers with a twist, I recommend the map-centric Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book and the lateral thinking-sparking GCHQ Puzzle Book.

For absolutely astonishing tales of mutiny, shipwreck and survival, Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash and The Wager by David Grann cover two of the most riveting true stories you’ve probably never heard of.

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