Australian Pub Trivia Questions
60 pub trivia questions and answers in 6 rounds, written for an Australian trivia night: general knowledge, sport, geography, history, music and TV, and food, drink and slang. Read each one out, then tap to reveal the answer.
General Knowledge
10 questionsThe warm-up round. Every table should get a few.
1.What is the capital city of Australia?
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Canberra
2.How many states does Australia have?
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Six (Plus the ACT and the Northern Territory)
3.Which two native animals hold up the shield on the Australian coat of arms?
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The kangaroo and the emu
4.The platypus is one of only two kinds of egg-laying mammal. What is the other?
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The echidna
5.Which bird appears on the Australian 10-cent coin?
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The lyrebird
6.What colour is the Australian $100 note?
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Green
7.Edith Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian parliament, appears on which banknote?
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The $50 note
8.Which Danish architect designed the Sydney Opera House?
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Jørn Utzon
9.What is Australia's national floral emblem?
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The golden wattle
10.How many points does the large Commonwealth Star on the Australian flag have?
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Seven
Sport
10 questionsThe round your footy tipping comp has been training for.
11.How many players does each AFL team have on the field at one time?
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18
12.How many players does each NRL team have on the field at one time?
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13
13.In AFL, how many points is a goal worth?
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Six
14.Which medal is awarded to the AFL's fairest and best player of the home-and-away season, as voted by the umpires?
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The Brownlow Medal
15.Which horse race is known as the race that stops the nation?
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The Melbourne Cup
16.Which rugby league series is played each year between New South Wales and Queensland?
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State of Origin
17.Australia and England play Test cricket for which famous urn?
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The Ashes
18.What do the letters MCG stand for?
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Melbourne Cricket Ground
19.To two decimal places, what was Sir Donald Bradman's Test batting average?
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99.94
20.Cathy Freeman won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 over which distance?
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400 metres
Australian Geography
10 questionsWhere the know-it-all at table six finally gets humbled.
21.Uluru is in which state or territory?
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The Northern Territory
22.What is the capital of Tasmania?
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Hobart
23.What is the capital of the Northern Territory?
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Darwin
24.The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which state?
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Queensland
25.Which sea lies between Australia and New Zealand?
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The Tasman Sea
26.What is Australia's largest state by area?
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Western Australia
27.Rottnest Island, home of the quokka, lies off the coast near which capital city?
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Perth
28.What is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland?
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Mount Kosciuszko
29.The Twelve Apostles stand beside which famous Victorian coastal road?
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The Great Ocean Road
30.Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from mainland Australia?
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Bass Strait
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Australian History
10 questionsRead these slowly. Someone at the back did this at uni.
31.In what year did the six colonies federate to form the Commonwealth of Australia?
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1901
32.In what year did the First Fleet arrive at Sydney Cove?
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1788
33.Who charted Australia's east coast in 1770 aboard HMS Endeavour?
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James Cook (He was a lieutenant at the time)
34.Who was Australia's first Prime Minister?
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Edmund Barton
35.What does the acronym ANZAC stand for?
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
36.Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the 1915 landing on which peninsula?
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Gallipoli
37.Which bushranger wore homemade armour at his last stand at Glenrowan in 1880?
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Ned Kelly
38.In what year did Australia switch from pounds to decimal currency?
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1966
39.The Eureka Stockade rebellion of 1854 took place on the goldfields at which Victorian town?
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Ballarat
40.Federal Parliament sat in which city until it moved to Canberra in 1927?
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Melbourne
Music and TV
10 questionsExpect singing. Some of it will be wrong.
41.Which Australian band released the album Back in Black in 1980?
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AC/DC
42.Kylie Minogue's first single was a cover of which song?
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The Loco-Motion
43.Which Men at Work hit asks, do you come from a land down under?
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Down Under
44.Which Australian soap is set on Ramsay Street?
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Neighbours
45.Home and Away is set in which fictional town?
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Summer Bay
46.Which Australian band recorded Khe Sanh?
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Cold Chisel
47.In the cartoon Bluey, what is the name of Bluey's little sister?
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Bingo
48.Which actor played the title role in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee?
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Paul Hogan
49.Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was the face of which ABC music show that ran from 1974 to 1987?
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Countdown
50.Which Australian singer had a 1986 hit with You're the Voice?
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John Farnham
Food, Drink and Slang
10 questionsBest asked while the kitchen is still open.
51.In Australian slang, what is the arvo?
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The afternoon
52.If you are heading to the servo, where are you going?
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The service station
53.What do you buy at a bottle-o?
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Alcohol (It is a bottle shop)
54.At a sausage sizzle, what is a snag?
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A sausage
55.In Australia, what are thongs?
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Flip-flops (Footwear, not underwear)
56.A 285 ml glass of beer is a pot in Victoria and Queensland. What is it called in New South Wales?
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A middy
57.Lamingtons are squares of sponge cake dipped in chocolate and rolled in what?
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Desiccated coconut
58.Which meringue dessert, named after a Russian ballerina, do Australia and New Zealand both claim?
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The pavlova
59.Which dark, salty spread was created in Melbourne by food scientist Cyril Callister in the 1920s?
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Vegemite
60.Which Arnott's chocolate biscuit do you bite at both ends and use as a straw for a slam?
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The Tim Tam
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What a Real Pack Looks Like
A list of questions is a start. A trivia night also needs slides on the screen, something for teams to write on, and a host who knows the answers. That is what arrives every Monday.
The Answer Booklet
Each team gets its own printed Answer Booklet. It has a title page, a page for each of the five rounds of ten questions, and a notes page at the back. Teams write their answers in it, and your staff collect and mark the booklets against the Host Q & A Sheet while the host keeps the room going.
Print one for each team before the night, put pens on the tables, and you are ready.
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Trivia Slides
A PowerPoint of five rounds of ten questions, with Bonus Baffler clues at the end of each round.
Host Q & A Sheet
Every question and answer, plus extra information and helpful hints for whoever is on the mic.
Answer Booklets
A printable PDF booklet for each team: a title page, a page for each round, and a notes page.
Bonus Game
A fun game to finish the night and get the whole room out of their seats.
A new pack every week is A$49, with no host fee and no lock-in contract. See weekly trivia packs
Four Tips for Your Host
Read each question twice, slowly. The second read is when the room goes quiet.
Mark each round before you start the next, and read the scores out. The leaderboard keeps people in their seats.
Keep phones face down. One rule, stated once at the start, saves a lot of arguments.
Run it on the same night every week. Regulars build their week around it.
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Pub Trivia Questions FAQ
Yes. Use them for a trivia night at your pub or club, a staff quiz, or a test run before you commit to a weekly night. If you want a complete night with slides, a Host Q & A Sheet and Answer Booklets ready to print, download two full trivia nights free from On-Tap Trivia.
Most pub trivia nights run five to eight rounds of about ten questions. An On-Tap Trivia pack is five rounds of ten questions, with Bonus Baffler clues at the end of each round and a Bonus Game to finish the night.
A good question has one clear answer, can be read aloud in one breath, and gives most tables a fighting chance. Mix easy openers with a few stumpers in every round. Avoid anything that changes, like this year's premiers or the current Prime Minister, so nobody can argue the answer.
Mostly, yes. Local sport, history, TV and slang get the whole room involved, and nobody has to guess at American trivia. A good night still mixes in world general knowledge, music and film so every table has a round they are confident in.
The Answer Booklet is the printed booklet each team writes its answers in. In an On-Tap Trivia pack it is a printable PDF with a title page, a page for each of the five rounds of ten questions, and a notes page. You print one booklet for each team.
On-Tap Trivia sends Australian pubs and clubs a complete, ready-to-run trivia pack every week: a PowerPoint plus PDFs for the Host Q & A Sheet, Answer Booklets and a poster, and a Bonus Game. Your own team hosts it, so there is no host fee. It is A$49 a week, or A$69 for a single pack.
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