[Oz-teachers] ANZAC Day quiz

Peter Macinnis petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au
Fri Apr 1 09:53:45 EST 2005 

Here is a quiz that will give heart to the unknowing at the start, and tax
the brightest at the end.  If you spot any obvious bloopers, please alert
me ASAP

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trimming-off to be applied.  All answers should be findable on the Web, and
the short form of the MC answers is at the end (no cheating!).

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 The St George's Day quiz will follow in a day or so, after you have had
time to test yourself. 



1.  In what year did ANZAC forces first land at Gallipoli?
	(A) 1917
	(B) 1915
	(C) 1914
	(D) 1916

2.  What book which describes Gallipoli was written by Albert Facey?
	(A) A Fortunate Life
	(B) My Fortunate Career
	(C) On the Beach
	(D) 1915

3.  Which enthusiastic supporter of the Gallipoli invasion later became a
British Prime Minister?
	(A) David Lloyd-George
	(B) Winston Churchill
	(C) Clement Attlee
	(D) Ramsay Macdonald

4.  In Australia, April 25 is ANZAC Day: what is it in New Zealand?
	(A) Waitangi Day
	(B) Easter Sunday
	(C) ANZAC Day
	(D) Queen Victoria's Birthday

5.  What Australian delicacy is mainly golden syrup and oatmeal?
	(A) ANZAC biscuits
	(B) Cocky's joy
	(C) ANZAC cookies
	(D) Vegemite

6.  What calibre was the normal rifle use by the ANZAC forces?
	(A) 0.38
	(B) 0.22
	(C) 0.45
	(D) 0.303

7.  In what month and year did the ANZACs withdraw from Gallipoli?
	(A) November, 1918
	(B) April, 1916
	(C) April, 1915
	(D) December, 1915

8.  What name was given to the beach where the Australian and New Zealand
forces were supposed to land at Gallipoli?
	(A) Manly
	(B) Bondi
	(C) ANZAC
	(D) Brighton

9.  What was the real surname of 'the man with the donkey'?
	(A) Johns
	(B) Birdwood
	(C) Simpson
	(D) Kirkpatrick

10.  Tradition has it that Light Horse soldiers had an unlikely name for
the plume they wore on their hats. What did they call it?
	(A) Kangaroo feathers
	(B) Emu tail
	(C) Black swan feathers
	(D) Kookaburra feathers

11.  Where did the ANZAC forces train before moving to attack the Gallipoli
Peninsula?
	(A) Palestine
	(B) Crete
	(C) Egypt
	(D) Tobruk

12.  Which design of rifle was used by the Diggers in World War I.
	(A) Winchester
	(B) Martini
	(C) Lee-Enfield
	(D) Vickers

13.  A famous statue at Gallipoli shows a soldier carried a wounded man.
What nationalities are the carrier and the carried, and where are they going?
	(A) A British soldier is carrying a wounded British soldier to the British
lines
	(B) A Turkish soldier is carrying a wounded British soldier to the British
lines
	(C) A Turkish soldier is carrying a wounded Turkish soldier to the Turkish
lines
	(D) A British soldier is carrying a wounded Turkish soldier to the Turkish
lines

14.  Which Australian Gallipoli leader has a university named after him? 
	(A) Sir Thomas Mitchell
	(B) Sir Thomas Blamey
	(C) Charles Sturt
	(D) Sir John Monash

15.  Which leader of the defending forces later became a national leader?
	(A) Konrad Adenauer
	(B) Kemal Ataturk
	(C) Colonel Nasser
	(D) Marshal Tito

16.  At Gallipoli, there was a British commander known to the ANZACs as
'Birdy': what was his surname?
	(A) Birdbrain
	(B) Raven
	(C) Crane-Hart
	(D) Birdwood

17.  Which Australian journalist and historian is most closely associated
with Gallipoli?
	(A) Ernest Scott
	(B) C. E. W. Bean
	(C) Manning Clark
	(D) Stephen Henry Roberts

18.  Who directed the 1981 film 'Gallipoli'?
	(A) Phillip Noyce
	(B) Bruce Beresford
	(C) Jane Campion
	(D) Peter Weir

19.  About how many ANZACs were taken prisoner at Gallipoli?
	(A) 10
	(B) 100
	(C) none
	(D) 1000

20.  Approximately how many of the ANZACs were killed or mortally wounded
at Gallipoli?
	(A) 5000
	(B) 10,000
	(C) 7000
	(D) 1000

21.  About how many ANZACs were wounded at Gallipoli?
	(A) 16,000
	(B) 24,000
	(C) 20,000
	(D) 12,000

22.  What was an ANZAC button?
	(A) A small badge worn by the ANZACs
	(B) A small flower that grew at Gallipoli
	(C) A home-made hand grenade, used in the trenches
	(D) A nail, used to hold up the trousers

23.  A furphy was a rumour. Where did the name come from?
	(A) A Turkish donkey
	(B) A British colonel who gossiped
	(C) A writer, Joseph Furphy
	(D) A water cart

24.  The ANZACs were annoyed by chats: what were chats?
	(A) Inspirational talks by British officers
	(B) Leeches
	(C) Lice
	(D) English-speaking Turks

25.  Which poet wrote the poem that includes the lines "At the going down
of the sun and in the morning/We will remember them"?
	(A) Rudyard Kipling
	(B) Henry Newbolt
	(C) Laurence Binyon
	(D) John McCrae

26.  What is the name of the sea closest to the beach at Gallipoli?
	(A) The Dardanelles
	(B) The Aegean Sea
	(C) The Sea of Marmara
	(D) The Black Sea

27.  What is the local name for Gallipoli?
	(A) Gallipoli
	(B) Canakkale
	(C) Gaba Tepe
	(D) Gelibolu

28.  What was Beachy Bill at Gallipoli?
	(A) One of Simpson's donkeys
	(B) A British colonel who never washed
	(C) A wrecked ship that gave cover
	(D) A Turkish gun that shelled the beach

29.  What did Nat Barton say the last ANZAC on the beach was doing in a
tunnel, just before he left?
	(A) Setting booby-traps
	(B) Sleeping
	(C) Drinking the medicinal brandy
	(D) Throwing bombs

30.  When were the plans for a Gallipoli invasion first drawn up?
	(A) Just before World War I
	(B) After the Franco-Prussian War
	(C) During the Crimean War
	(D) During the Napoleonic Wars

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Straight question format:

1.  In what year did ANZAC forces first land at Gallipoli?
2.  What book which describes Gallipoli was written by Albert Facey?
3.  Which enthusiastic supporter of the Gallipoli invasion later became a
British Prime Minister?
4.  In Australia, April 25 is ANZAC Day: what is it in New Zealand?
5.  What Australian delicacy is mainly golden syrup and oatmeal?
6.  What calibre was the normal rifle use by the ANZAC forces?
7.  In what month and year did the ANZACs withdraw from Gallipoli?
8.  What name was given to the beach where the Australian and New Zealand
forces were supposed to land at Gallipoli?
9.  What was the real surname of 'the man with the donkey'?
10.  Tradition has it that Light Horse soldiers had an unlikely name for
the plume they wore on their hats. What did they call it?
11.  Where did the ANZAC forces train before moving to attack the Gallipoli
Peninsula?
12.  Which design of rifle was used by the Diggers in World War I.
13.  A famous statue at Gallipoli shows a soldier carried a wounded man.
What nationalities are the carrier and the carried, and where are they going?
14.  Which Australian Gallipoli leader has a university named after him? 
15.  Which leader of the defending forces later became a national leader?
16.  At Gallipoli, there was a British commander known to the ANZACs as
'Birdy': what was his surname?
17.  Which Australian journalist and historian is most closely associated
with Gallipoli?
18.  Who directed the 1981 film 'Gallipoli'?
19.  About how many ANZACs were taken prisoner at Gallipoli?
20.  Approximately how many of the ANZACs were killed or mortally wounded
at Gallipoli?
21.  About how many ANZACs were wounded at Gallipoli?
22.  What was an ANZAC button?
23.  A furphy was a rumour. Where did the name come from?
24.  The ANZACs were annoyed by chats: what were chats?
25.  Which poet wrote the poem that includes the lines "At the going down
of the sun and in the morning/We will remember them"?
26.  What is the name of the sea closest to the beach at Gallipoli?
27.  What is the local name for Gallipoli?
28.  What was Beachy Bill at Gallipoli?
29.  What did Nat Barton say the last ANZAC on the beach was doing in a
tunnel, just before he left?
30.  When were the plans for a Gallipoli invasion first drawn up?


ANSWERS

1	B
2	A
3	B
4	C
5	A
6	D
7	D
8	D
9	D
10	A
11	C
12	C
13	B
14	D
15	B
16	D
17	B
18	D
19	B
20	B
21	B
22	D
23	D
24	C
25	C
26	B
27	D
28	D
29	B
30	C


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