28-Sep-2023 Theme: 'Lake'

(1) What is the name given to the giant lake, fed by the Murray and other rivers, which formed in the Mallee region about 2.5 million years ago, and finally emptied about 600,000 years ago?

Answer: Lake Bungunnia.

(2) What is an endorheic lake?

Answer: A lake which has no outflow to the sea or other waterways.

(3) In 2012, the Arabana name Kati Thanda was officially restored to which large Australian lake?

Answer: Lake Eyre.

(4) There is a bizarre myth that a NSW lake is connected by an underground cave to another lake elsewhere in the world – that when one fills, the other empties. What is the NSW lake?

Answer: Lake George.

(5) According to Monty Python, what mythical lacustrine ceremony is “no basis for a system of government”?

Answer: “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords”.

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