The March-April issue of The Southern Yarn is ready for you in glorious full colour. Come check it out by clicking on the image of the front page, or perhaps you are one of our postal subscribers, in which case you will be eagerly awaiting the swift delivery of the B&W version on distinctive yellow paper, by our venerable postal network.
As promised on page 5 of the newsletter, the answers (and JUST the answers) to the trivia questions are below. Don’t look until you’ve tried to answer from the questions first.
Australia Trivia Answers
- Wombat
- Steven “Bradbury”
- “Harold Holt” Memorial Swimming Centre
- 1932
- Daintree Forest
- Hugh Jackman
- Macquarie Island
- Parkes, NSW
- 1974
- Neville Bonner
- Daryl Braithwaite
- Sydney Opera House
- Women first gained the right to vote in the Colony of South Australia in 1894
- Opal
- Platypus
New Zealand Trivia Answers
- Green
- Edinburgh
- For Valour
- Xena
- Black Ferns (are one of the top women’s rugby teams in the world).
- Moas
- Peter Jackson (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
- Rutherfordium
- Sir Russell Coutts
- Australian and Pacific
- 53
- Baldwin Street in Dunedin is the world’s steepest residential street a gradient of 1:2.86 at the steepest point.
- Lemon & Paeroa
- Adventure
- Blow on it