21-Oct-2021 Theme: 'Visitors'

(1) Who in 1836 visited Albany, WA – the heart of one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots – and wrote in his diary that “I do not remember since leaving England having passed a more dull, uninteresting time”.

Answer: Charles Darwin.

(2) Which European leader – made famous by World War 1 – visited Australia in 1893, and spent much of his time hunting wildlife in rural NSW (including shooting eight koalas at Moss Vale).

Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

(3) Who wrote during a visit in 1897 that “God made the Harbour…but Satan made Sydney.”

Answer: Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (Twain attributed the quote to a fellow passenger).

(4) Best known for his song about a river, which famous communist musician from the US visited Australia in 1960, where he promoted Aboriginal activism, worker’s rights and other social issues.

Answer: Paul Robeson.

(5) Which rock musician caused an outcry during a visit to Adelaide in 2020, when he criticised a planned cat curfew, declaring that “cats have as much right to patrol the streets as humans”.

Answer: Brian May (Queen guitarist).

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