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  1. Complete the sentence about Australian English with the correct year: Australian English began to diverge from British and Hiberno-English after the First Fleet established the Colony of New South Wal…
  2. Complete the sentence about Australian English with the correct year: Peter Miller Cunningham's ______ book Two Years in New South Wales described the distinctive accent and vocabulary that had develo…
  3. Complete the sentence about Australian slang with the correct year: One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed…
  4. Complete the sentence about Australian slang with the correct year: In ______, the more comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English was published.
  5. Complete the sentence about Australian slang with the correct year: Oxford University Press published the Australian Oxford Dictionary in ______, in concert with the Australian National University.
  6. Complete the sentence about Vegemite with the correct year: Following the death of Fred Walker in ______, the Vegemite brand came under the ownership of the American company Kraft Foods.
  7. Complete the sentence about Vegemite with the correct year: In ______, Walker had established the Kraft Walker Cheese Co. as a joint venture company with J.
  8. Complete the sentence about Vegemite with the correct year: Kraft & Bros to market processed cheese and, following the failure of Parwill, in ______ he used the success of Kraft Walker Cheese to promo…
  9. Complete the sentence about Vegemite with the correct year: Following the death of Walker in ______, the Fred Walker Company was absorbed by Kraft Walker Cheese Co., a subsidiary of Kraft Co.
  10. Complete the sentence about Vegemite with the correct year: Sales responded and in ______ Vegemite was officially endorsed by the British Medical Association as a rich source of B vitamins.
  11. Complete the sentence about Lamington with the correct year: The earliest known reference to the naming of the lamington, from June ______, links the cake to Lord Lamington.
  12. Complete the sentence about Lamington with the correct year: The first known mention of "Lamington cake" appears in an ______ newspaper account of a "Lamington Function" at Laidley in Queensland.
  13. Complete the sentence about Lamington with the correct year: A ______ recipe for Lamington Cakes has been found in the Queensland Country Life newspaper.
  14. Complete the sentence about Lamington with the correct year: A ______ April Fools' Day story from Guardian Australia falsely claimed the lamington to have been based on a previously unknown New Zealan…
  15. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: A recipe for "Strawberries Pavlova" appeared in the New Zealand Herald on 11 November ______, but this was a kind of ice block or sorbet.
  16. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: A ______ book, Australian Home Cookery by Emily Futter, contained a recipe for "Meringue with Fruit Filling".
  17. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: Another recipe for a dish bearing the name pavlova was published in ______ by the Davis Gelatine company in Sydney.
  18. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: Helen Leach, in her role as a culinary anthropologist at the University of Otago, states that the first recipe from New Zealand was a recipe…
  19. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: A recipe for pavlova cake was published in The Evening Star on 10 November ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Pavlova with the correct year: The Beverley Times claimed that Bert Sachse created the dish at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth, Western Australia, in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Anzac biscuit with the correct year: Another early recipe for the Anzac biscuit dates back to ______, published in an Australian newspaper called The Argus.
  22. Complete the sentence about Anzac biscuit with the correct year: The first recipe for an Anzac biscuit containing desiccated coconut is recorded from the city of Adelaide in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Anzac biscuit with the correct year: In New Zealand, a ______ recipe for Anzac Crispies in the eighth edition of the St Andrew's Cookery Book had similar ingredients to mod…
  24. Complete the sentence about Meat pie with the correct year: In ______, the Paris pastry guild was recognized and started to expand their products—and so something like the modern day crust began to be…
  25. Complete the sentence about Barbecue with the correct year: After Columbus landed in the Americas in ______, the Spaniards found Taíno roasting meat over a grill consisting of a wooden framework resti…
  26. Complete the sentence about Barbecue with the correct year: The first known use as a noun was in ______ by the English buccaneer William Dampier.
  27. Complete the sentence about Flat white with the correct year: The term is attested in a published source in England in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Flat white with the correct year: In the ______ British film Danger by My Side a character orders a flat white in an espresso bar.
  29. Complete the sentence about Flat white with the correct year: A review of the Sydney café Miller's Treat in May ______ refers to their "flat white coffee".
  30. Complete the sentence about Australian wine with the correct year: In ______ Gregory Blaxland became the first person to export Australian wine, and was the first winemaker to win an overseas award.
  31. Complete the sentence about Australian wine with the correct year: Wine from the Adelaide Hills was sent to Queen Victoria in ______, but there is no evidence that she placed an order as a result.
  32. Complete the sentence about Penfolds with the correct year: Christopher and Mary Penfold arrived in Australia from Angmering, West Sussex, UK, at the respective ages of 33 and 24, in June ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Penfolds with the correct year: Mary retired in ______, aged 68; at that time the winery owned about a third of all of South Australia's wine stores, and had presented at a…
  34. Complete the sentence about Penfolds with the correct year: Gladys Penfold Hyland became the chair of the board in ______ after her husband died.
  35. Complete the sentence about Penfolds with the correct year: The Penfold family retained a controlling interest until ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Foster's Lager with the correct year: The product was first exported in ______, when bottles were sent to Australian combatants in the Boer War.
  37. Complete the sentence about Foster's Lager with the correct year: Commencing ______, the brand was brewed under licence in the UK by Watney Mann and Truman Brewers.
  38. Complete the sentence about Foster's Lager with the correct year: The Tim Foster's yeast in use today was brought to Carlton in ______ from Professor Jorgensen in Denmark.
  39. Complete the sentence about Australian cuisine with the correct year: Native food sources were used to supplement the colonists' diet following the arrival of the First Fleet in Botany Bay in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Australian cuisine with the correct year: Following the pre-colonial period, European settlers began arriving with the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Didgeridoo with the correct year: In ______, English palaeontologist Robert Etheridge, Junior observed the use of "three very curious trumpets" made of bamboo in northern A…
  42. Complete the sentence about Papunya Tula with the correct year: In ______, Geoffrey Bardon, the school teacher at the community, encouraged the children to paint a mural using the traditional style of…
  43. Complete the sentence about Papunya Tula with the correct year: The collective, originally entirely Aboriginal Australian men, formed in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Albert Namatjira with the correct year: In ______, a portrait of Namatjira by William Dargie became the first of an Aboriginal person to win the Archibald Prize.
  45. Complete the sentence about Rolf Harris with the correct year: In ______, he painted an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
  46. Complete the sentence about Rolf Harris with the correct year: The conviction involving an eight-year-old girl in Portsmouth was overturned as unsafe in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Sidney Nolan with the correct year: Sidney Nolan was born in Carlton, at that time an inner working-class suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Sidney Nolan with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 16, he began working for Fayrefield Hats, Abbotsford, producing advertising and display stands with spray paint…
  49. Complete the sentence about Sidney Nolan with the correct year: In ______, he attended night classes sporadically at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School.
  50. Complete the sentence about Arthur Boyd with the correct year: First exhibited in Melbourne in April ______, the series met a mixed reaction, as it did later that year in Adelaide and Sydney.
  51. Complete the sentence about Arthur Boyd with the correct year: In ______, Boyd's ceramic sculpture 'Olympic Pylon' was installed in the forecourt of the Melbourne Olympic Swimming Pool.
  52. Complete the sentence about Arthur Boyd with the correct year: Boyd represented Australia with Arthur Streeton at the Venice Biennale in ______, where his Bride series was well received.
  53. Complete the sentence about Tom Roberts with the correct year: Together with Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder, they staged the ______ 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, Australia's first self-consciously…
  54. Complete the sentence about Tom Roberts with the correct year: In ______, he completed the commissioned work The Big Picture, the most famous visual representation of the first Australian Parliament.
  55. Complete the sentence about Tom Roberts with the correct year: When his father died, Matilda migrated with her family to Australia in ______ to live with relatives.
  56. Complete the sentence about Heidelberg School with the correct year: The core group painted together at "artists' camps", the first being the Box Hill artists' camp, established in ______ by Tom Rober…
  57. Complete the sentence about Heidelberg School with the correct year: In August ______, several artists of the Heidelberg School staged their first independent exhibition at Buxton's Rooms, Swanston St…
  58. Complete the sentence about Brett Whiteley with the correct year: Much later, in ______, Whiteley wrote to Rees, who had been his friend and mentor for many years.
  59. Complete the sentence about Brett Whiteley with the correct year: In ______, he won an art scholarship sponsored by the Italian government and judged by Russell Drysdale.
  60. Complete the sentence about Brett Whiteley with the correct year: In ______, while in London, Whiteley became fascinated by the murderer John Christie, who had committed murders in the area near where…
  61. Complete the sentence about Brett Whiteley with the correct year: In ______, Whiteley won a Harkness Fellowship Scholarship to study and work in New York.
  62. Complete the sentence about Patrick White with the correct year: In ______ White returned to Australia, where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney.
  63. Complete the sentence about Patrick White with the correct year: White and Lascaris moved to Sydney's Centennial Park in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Patrick White with the correct year: In ______ they moved to a large house, "Lulworth", in Elizabeth Bay.
  65. Complete the sentence about Patrick White with the correct year: In ______ he attended Cranbrook School but his asthma worsened.
  66. Complete the sentence about Henry Lawson with the correct year: After he died in ______ following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral.
  67. Complete the sentence about Henry Lawson with the correct year: Henry Lawson was born 17 June ______ in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales.
  68. Complete the sentence about Henry Lawson with the correct year: Niels Larsen went to sea at 21 and arrived in Melbourne in ______ to join the gold rush, along with partner William Henry John Slee.
  69. Complete the sentence about Henry Lawson with the correct year: Lawson attended school at Eurunderee from 2 October ______ but experienced an ear infection around this time.
  70. Complete the sentence about Banjo Paterson with the correct year: In ______ Paterson was sent to Sydney Grammar School, performing well both as a student and a sportsman.
  71. Complete the sentence about Banjo Paterson with the correct year: Paterson was a law clerk with a Sydney-based firm headed by Herbert Salwey, and was admitted as a solicitor in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Banjo Paterson with the correct year: From ______, he began submitting and having poetry published in The Bulletin, a literary journal with a nationalist focus.
  73. Complete the sentence about Tim Winton with the correct year: In ______, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and, among many other awards, has won the Miles Franklin Awa…
  74. Complete the sentence about Tim Winton with the correct year: Timothy John Winton was born on 4 August ______ in Subiaco, an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  75. Complete the sentence about Tim Winton with the correct year: While still a student, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer, which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in ______, launching h…
  76. Complete the sentence about Thomas Keneally with the correct year: The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's ______ film Schindler's List, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best…
  77. Complete the sentence about Thomas Keneally with the correct year: Keneally studied Honours English for his Leaving Certificate in ______, under Brother James Athanasius McGlade, and won a Commonwealt…
  78. Complete the sentence about Thomas Keneally with the correct year: Keneally was known as "Mick" until ______ but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher…
  79. Complete the sentence about Thomas Keneally with the correct year: Keneally's first story was published in The Bulletin magazine in ______ under the pseudonym Bernard Coyle.
  80. Complete the sentence about Thomas Keneally with the correct year: By February ______, he had written more than 50 books, including 30 novels.
  81. Complete the sentence about Colleen McCullough with the correct year: In ______, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim.
  82. Complete the sentence about Colleen McCullough with the correct year: McCullough was born on 1 June ______ in Wellington, New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough.
  83. Complete the sentence about Colleen McCullough with the correct year: Tim, published by Harper and Row in ______, depicts the romance between a middle-aged woman and a younger intellectually disabled…
  84. Complete the sentence about Miles Franklin with the correct year: While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Miles Franklin with the correct year: In ______, she travelled to England and worked as a cook and earned some money from journalism.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dorothea Mackellar with the correct year: In her later years she ceased writing and, suffering poor health, her last eleven years were spent in a nursing home in Randwick w…
  87. Complete the sentence about Dorothea Mackellar with the correct year: In the New Year's Day Honours of ______, Mackellar was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contributio…
  88. Complete the sentence about Dorothea Mackellar with the correct year: On Australia Day, 26 January ______, a memorial to Mackellar was unveiled and dedicated in ANZAC Park, Gunnedah.
  89. Complete the sentence about Dorothea Mackellar with the correct year: The finished bronze version was installed in September ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Dorothea Mackellar with the correct year: Isherwood set about painting a series of oils based on the watercolours which were exhibited at the Artarmon Galleries in Sydney i…
  91. Complete the sentence about Schindler's Ark with the correct year: Schindler's Ark is a biographical novel published in ______ by the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
  92. Complete the sentence about Schindler's Ark with the correct year: In ______, the novel was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Plati…
  93. Complete the sentence about Schindler's Ark with the correct year: Keneally's meetings with Pfefferberg and his research and interviews of Schindler's acquaintances are detailed in his ______ book Sea…
  94. Complete the sentence about Schindler's Ark with the correct year: In October ______, Keneally went into Pfefferberg's shop in Beverly Hills to ask about the price of briefcases.
  95. Complete the sentence about The Thorn Birds with the correct year: The Thorn Birds is a ______ novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough.
  96. Complete the sentence about The Thorn Birds with the correct year: Subsequently, a ______ miniseries entitled The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years filled in a gap of 19 years in the middle of the novel.
  97. Complete the sentence about The Thorn Birds with the correct year: One day, Paddy receives an offer from Mary of a job on her estate, so in ______, the whole Cleary family moves from New Zealand to Au…
  98. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize in Literature with the correct year: In ______, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.
  99. Complete the sentence about Australian literature with the correct year: Alexis Wright won the award in ______ for her novel Carpentaria.
  100. Complete the sentence about Mad Max with the correct year: In ______, Fury Road became the first film of the Mad Max franchise to receive Academy Award recognition, winning six of its ten nominations.

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