, 10 April 2019
There’s a lot to celebrate in Australian science. See how much you know with this set of antipodean questions.
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
Douglas Mawson was a famous Australian geologist who explored Antarctica.
The Australian Synchrotron makes short bursts of very bright light, which are used to look inside everything from rocks to human tissue.
David Warren invented a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, the instruments together known as the black box.
Wombats have pouches that face backwards so they don’t fill with dirt while digging.
The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is about a 40 kilometre drive away from Parliament House.
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