New Book Week Quiz!

What are hurricanes called in Australia?

Quiz 7 landed in Remembrance week and stretched from the weather to deep history. Three of its questions have real staying power.

What are hurricanes called in Australia?

Cyclones. Same swirling storm, different name depending on where it forms: hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons in the north-west Pacific, and cyclones down here. The naming is pure geography.

How long have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples lived on this land?

Approximately 65,000 years, making Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures the oldest continuous cultures on Earth. It is a number worth sitting with: sixty-five thousand years of stories, knowledge and connection to country.

How many dots are on a pair of dice?

42. Each die carries 21 dots (1+2+3+4+5+6), so a pair carries 42. A tidy little maths question that most people have never thought to count, despite a lifetime of board games.

That was Quiz 7: storms with passports, the world's oldest cultures and the answer to everything hiding on a pair of dice.

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