Clever Country Round Two - Questions

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1. Wine turns into vinegar if exposed to the air for too long. As wine is poured out of the bottle, air comes in to take up the spare space. This means that you can't really have a glass of wine, recork the bottle, and then have another glass a week later, without affecting the remaining wine. What have Australians invented that allows wine to be stored without letting air in to affect the leftovers?

2. I have a friend called Fred. He has red hair and rides a yellow bicycle. He also wears glasses with plastic lenses developed right here in Australia. How much lighter are his plastic lenses compared to traditional glass lenses?

a)      10%              b)         25%              c)         60%              d)         75%

3. Which Australian innovation has had its design incorporated into aerofoil and aeroplane design?

4. Which of these sporting breakthroughs was NOT an Australian invention?

a)      The Super Sopper, for wet sports fields

b)      The butterfly stroke

c)      The Cyclops laser tennis line caller

d)      The Winged Keel, used on Australia II

e)      The Repco Exercise bike

f)       They all were Australian inventions

5. William McArthur invented which piece of cutlery?

6. In 1906 Australia actually created the world's first feature length film. The name of the film was

a) Strictly Ballroom                         

b) The Story of the Kelly Gang

c) Goldfever

d) I Love a Sunburnt Country

7. Henry Sutton was a prolific inventor who did not patent any of his work and thus has become rather obscure in Australian history. He invented 20 telephone designs, the world's first portable radio, a flying engine, an electric storage battery, photoengineering and colour photography. He also discovered incandescent globes at the same time as...who?

8. Australia gets a whole heap of sunshine and is leading the world in solar cell research.   We use solar power in a lot of things, and were the first in the world to use solar power for:

a)      Outback digital radio telephones

b)      Flytraps

c)      Armored tanks

d)      Desalinators

9. Australians have been very active in inventing things for defence. We've invented the machine gun belt, the first mine detector, the exploding bullet, the barra sonobuoy for detecting submarines, imaging laser radar, acoustic imaging of underwater mines, the Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar Network, or JORN, which enables operators in Melbourne to detect aircraft and ship movement ... all the way to Singapore Harbour.

10. What are some of the things Australians have invented for defence? (MARK OUT OF 8)

11. What's unusual about the True Blue Loo?

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