26-Nov-2020 Theme: 'Tracks'

(1) Who is the author of the popular book Tracks, Scats and Other Traces - A Field Guide to Australian Mammals?

Answer: Barbara Triggs.

(2) The last Federal Budget (5 October, 2020) confirmed funding to bitumenise an iconic, 472-kilometre outback road. What is the name of the road?

Answer: The Strzelecki Track.

(3) Complete the line: “There’s a track winding back to an old fashioned shack along the road to …”

Answer: Gundagai.

(4) The fossilised footprints of what extinct creature can be found on a lakebed near Camperdown in South West Victoria?

Answer: Diprotodon.

(5) The Trans-Australian Railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta includes the longest straight section of train track in the world. The total length without a curve is (a) 258km (b) 368km (c) 478km (d) 588km (e) 698km?

Answer: (c) 478km.

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