Australian Science, Arts and Culture

Science and Inventions

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  1. Which Australian national science agency holds patents for techniques used in Wi-Fi?
  2. Which Australian scientist developed the flight data recorder, known as the black box?
  3. Which Australian-born scientist shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on penicillin?
  4. Which Tasmanian-born scientist shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on telomerase?
  5. Which pair won the 2005 Nobel Prize for showing that a bacterium causes stomach ulcers?
  6. Which Australian invented the cochlear implant, or bionic ear?
  7. Who designed the Hills Hoist rotary clothes line in Adelaide in 1945?
  8. What role did the Parkes radio telescope play in 1969?
  9. Where in Western Australia is part of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope being built?
  10. Which father and son from Adelaide shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for X-ray crystallography?
  11. Who designed the Aboriginal flag, first flown in 1971?
  12. Who designed the Torres Strait Islander flag, adopted in 1992?
  13. What is the didgeridoo, or yidaki?
  14. What is the Dreaming in Aboriginal cultures?
  15. Who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, with its first base at Cloncurry in 1928?
  16. Where did the first School of the Air begin broadcasting to remote students in 1951?
  17. What was WRESAT, launched from Woomera in 1967?
  18. What are the stromatolites of Shark Bay in Western Australia?
  19. Which station in the Australian Antarctic Territory is named after a geologist who led expeditions there?
  20. Which statement about the Australian Antarctic Territory is correct?
  21. What is Dr Fred Hollows remembered for?
  22. What does CSIRO stand for?
  23. Which Perth doctor developed spray-on skin for burns patients?

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