The winner will be the person with the most correct answers, if more than one persons correctly answers all or the same number of questions, we will draw the winner on the last day of this year's bake. Graeme Cairns will be the official scrutineer.
Send your entry to Tanja at Competition Entries - we look forward to hearing from you.
Source of the quiz will be acknowledged when the winner is announced as research is encouraged!
Anzac Quiz
1. Where were the first 'acts of war' committed by Australian troops in WWI?
(a) London
(b) Paris
(c) Rabaul
(d) Gallipoli
2. Who wrote 'For the Fallen', that is recited every Anzac Day in Australia as part of the commemoration service?
(a) Banjo Patterson
(b) Billy Hughes
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Laurence Binyon
3. What do the initials ANZAC stand for?
(a) Australian and New Zealand Armed Combination
(b) Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
(c) Australia and New Zealand Allied Corporation
(d) Australia and New Zealand Armoured Corps
4. In what year was Anzac Day officially named in Australia?
(a) 1916
(b) 1915
(c) 1914
(d) 1917
5. What was the alternative name mooted for the forces who became known as the Anzacs?
(a) Austral Zeal Army Corps
(b) New Australasian Corps
(c) Australasian Corps
(d) Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Force
6. Who was Australia's Prime Minister when WWI began?
(a) Billy Hughes
(b) Joseph Curtin
(c) Arthur Fadden
(d) Joseph Cook
7. Who is one of the best remembered of the original 'Anzacs'?
(a) Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
(b) Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
(c) Elwyn Roy 'Bo' King
(d) Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick
8. Who was appointed Commander of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF's) Fourth Brigade, based in Egypt?
(a) Sir John Monash
(b) Sir William Birdwood
(c) Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White
(d) Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor
9. Which country requested help, leading to the attack on Turkey by the allies during WWI?
(a) France
(b) Russia
(c) Germany
(d) New Zealand
10. Which Australian newspaper reported the first news in Australia of the Australian landing at Gallipoli?
(a) Sydney Morning Herald
(b) Hobart Mercury
(c) Singleton Argus
(d) Courier Mail (Brisbane)
11. Who is Australia's youngest winner of the Victoria Cross Medal?
(a) William Jackson
(b) Captain Ross M Smith
(c) Alfred Shout
(d) Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick
12. How many Victoria Crosses were awarded to members of the Australian forces who were involved in the Battle of Lone Pine in 1915?
(a) 11
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 9
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