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Australia - Did You Know?

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  1. Did you know that 95 percent ___ the world's opals are mined in Australia?
    a. on
    b. at
    c. of

  2. Did you know that the coldest capital city ___ Australia is Canberra.
    a. of
    b. in
    c. at

  3. Did you know that swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales ___ 1833 until 1903?
    a. from
    b. for
    c. at

  4. Did you know that the first ballot boxes in the world to be used ___ an election were used in Victoria in 1856?
    a. of
    b. on
    c. in

  5. Did you know that Australia is the sixth largest country ___ the world?
    a. to
    b. for
    c. in

  6. Did you know that there are 6000 species ___ flies in Australia?
    a. for
    b. in
    c. of

  7. Did you know that camels were first imported ___ Australia in 1840 and that now Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world?
    a. for
    b. in
    c. to

  8. Did you know that television came ___ Australia for the first time in 1956?
    a. to
    b. in
    c. at

  9. Did you know that Australia has more than 1500 species ___ spiders?
    a. for
    b. from
    c. of

  10. Did you know that Australia is the driest inhabited continent ___ earth?
    a. on
    b. in
    c. at

Copyright (C) 1998 Melinda Gleeson (ozesl@powerup.com.au)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.