Can you spell unusual Aussie town names?

[DiscoMick]

Try this quiz and see how you go.
I got 11, which is apparently better than the average of 8. However, I have to admit I had never heard of one of the towns and Googled it, so my real score was 10.
Can you do better?


Spelling quiz: Australian placenames | World news | theguardian.com (http://www.theguardian.com/world/quiz/2014/aug/14/spelling-quiz-australian-place-names)

[vnx205]

I managed 12 without any cheating. :)

[JDNSW]

Fourteen without cheating - I think I got the last one wrong.

John

[Mick_Marsh]

Interesting. I scored seven. I thought that was good considering I hadn't heard of half of those place names.
I did notice the absence of Cans (Cairns to us southerners).

[BMKal]

11 without any cheating. But I don't know which ones I got wrong - I haven't looked them up. I'd hazard a guess I got the last one wrong (I put Perth) and that one in NW Victoria (Patchey something) I've never heard of. :p

[B92 8NW]

13. I put Perth as well.

[Saitch]

13 but guessed/rationalised 2 answers!

[V8Ian]

I got nine, but spare a thought for all the truck drivers who get fined for mis-spelling place names in their log books. :mad:

[Mick_Marsh]

I got nine, but spare a thought for all the truck drivers who get fined for mis-spelling place names in their log books. :mad:
With a score of nine, I'm guessing you've paid a fair few of those fines.

What trot. Fining people for misspelling. You'd think they'd have more important things to do.

[V8Ian]

With a score of nine, I'm guessing you've paid a fair few of those fines.

What trot. Fining people for misspelling. You'd think they'd have more important things to do.
I'll drive for hours so I can park at a place I can spell. Sidnee and Mellburn are out. ;)

Actually Mick I have a strategy, I write so untidily that no one can tell how I've spelled a word.

[bob10]

13 out of 15. Got Nullabor & Perth wrong. Bob

[Bearman]

I'll drive for hours so I can park at a place I can spell. Sidnee and Mellburn are out. ;)

Actually Mick I have a strategy, I write so untidily that no one can tell how I've spelled a word.

We had better add DR. to your title Ian.:D
9 was the best I could do as well.

[Mick_Marsh]

I'll drive for hours so I can park at a place I can spell. Sidnee and Mellburn are out. ;)

Actually Mick I have a strategy, I write so untidily that no one can tell how I've spelled a word.
No wonder you avoid the place, you can't spell it. You have added superfluous letters. It's "Melb'n".

[V8Ian]

Filling out "Ian's Guide to Parking Spots Throughout Australia" in red texta doesn't end well either. :nazilock:

[Roverlord off road spares]

I only got 8! without cheating.
1. How do you spell Australia's tallest mountain?
Correct answer: Mount Kosciuszko

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 2. How do you spell the following area of Sydney?
Correct answer: Leichhardt
You answered: Leichardt
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 3. Name the town in NSW near the border with the ACT
Correct answer: Queanbeyan

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 4. This town is pronounced War-hope but what about its correct spelling?
Correct answer: Wauchope

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 5. In which area of Brisbane do England get regularly thrashed at cricket?
Correct answer: Woolloongabba
You answered: Wooloongabba
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 6. This river means 'big water' in the Wiradjuri language
Correct answer: Murrumbidgee

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 7. Name the town 440km from Melbourne in north-west Victoria
Correct answer: Patchewollock

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 8. Timber is one of the main industries of this town in Western Australia
Correct answer: Manjimup

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 9. This flat, arid plain is almost the same size as Britain. But with fewer pubs
Correct answer: Nullarbor
You answered: Nullabor
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 10. Mel Gibson went to school in this leafy Sydney suburb
Correct answer: Wahroonga
You answered: Wahroongah
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 11. How do you spell this mining town in the Northern Territory?
Correct answer: Nhulunbuy
You answered: Nhullunbuy
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 12. Which area gives its name to the NRL club the Eels?
Correct answer: Parramatta
You answered: Paramatta
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 13. This South Australian town gives its name to a famous overland track
Correct answer: Oodnadatta

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/937.jpg 14. Name this body of water off Tasmania
Correct answer: D'Entrecasteaux Channel

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/08/936.jpg 15. And an easy one to end with. What's the correct spelling for the longest place name in Australia?
Correct answer: Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill
You answered: Mamungkkukumppurangkuntjunya Hill

[JDNSW]

Probably helps the fact that I have lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, and travelled over a lot of the rest of the country in the last 70+ years.

John

[bob10]

The interesting point of this exercise is how many people feel the need to add the words " without cheating". Do they normally cheat? People are funny cattle, Bob

[Jojo]

I got a score of 8. How's that for a non-Aussie?!?:D
Cheers

[JDNSW]

The interesting point of this exercise is how many people feel the need to add the words " without cheating". Do they normally cheat? People are funny cattle, Bob

No, but perhaps assume that some others may do so.

John

[sheerluck]

10! Not bad for an import. Even though one of the right answers may have been a total guess. :angel:

[kaz11]

Thanks for the quiz. It was fun.

I got 12 correct. Pretty pleased with that.

I've been to 9 of the places, but I'd never heard of the places in questions 5 or 8, and I was one letter off in the last one. I did take an educated guess at no.7 though which paid off.

[Mick_Marsh]

10! Not bad for an import. Even though one of the right answers may have been a total guess. :angel:
Only ten! How un-Australian.
It's off to Manus for you.

[DiscoMick]

The Internet has made it so easy to Google things now. For example, I Googled that Patchey town in Victoria because I'd never heard of it, so I had no idea about the spelling.
The other towns I'd heard of so I guessed when I wasn't sure.


As the Information Revolution spreads it will soon be standard practice to just search what we need rather than trying to remember everything. One writer predicted houses would have touchscreen and voice-activated wall screens linked to the Internet and we would just 'talk to the walls' which will display what we want to know.
Maybe one day we'll all have USB ports in our heads and we'll just plug in information chips depending on what we need to know. Scary...

[rocmic]

14 but I knew where Patchewollock is:D, guessed Perth but managed to put an extra 'l' in Nhulunbuy:(. I'll have to hand in my passport .

[sheerluck]

Only ten! How un-Australian.
It's off to Manus for you.

No Manus for me, I arrived by plane.

[vnx205]

The interesting point of this exercise is how many people feel the need to add the words " without cheating". Do they normally cheat? People are funny cattle, Bob

You're reading too much into it. :)

Since the first post had a long story about the score with and without resorting to Google, "without cheating" was merely my shorthand way of explaining that I just had the one score to offer and that it didn't involve using Google or phoning a friend. :)

The notion of trying to gain an unfair advantage or even the notion that others might try to gain an unfair advantage didn't occur to me. :)

[bob10]

No Manus for me, I arrived by plane.


Splitter! Bob
:p

[bob10]

You're reading too much into it. :)

Since the first post had a long story about the score with and without resorting to Google, "without cheating" was merely my shorthand way of explaining that I just had the one score to offer and that it didn't involve using Google or phoning a friend. :)

The notion of trying to gain an unfair advantage or even the notion that others might try to gain an unfair advantage didn't occur to me. :)


It's ok mate, just my sense of humour, Bob.
:angel:

[JDNSW]

........

As the Information Revolution spreads it will soon be standard practice to just search what we need rather than trying to remember everything. One writer predicted houses would have touchscreen and voice-activated wall screens linked to the Internet and we would just 'talk to the walls' which will display what we want to know.
Maybe one day we'll all have USB ports in our heads and we'll just plug in information chips depending on what we need to know. Scary...

The problem with this is that the majority of Australia (by area) has no or very poor internet access, and it is difficult to see this improving substantially in the foreseeable future. The cutoff of the original NBN was an urban area with a minimum of 1000 houses.

John

[Mick_Marsh]

Just ran the test by a mate who was a school teacher. He got four.
Got to say, all the place names he got wrong he did say he'd never heard of them. I thought that hit rate was impressive. The four places he had heard of, he got right.
It is a very targeted questionnaire.

[S3ute]

14 out of 15 - missed the second h in Leichhardt.