Australia Day is Here again

[Thanatos]

12/20 for me. Looks like they're gonna have to boot me out!

[gamblor916]

Wow that test is ridiculous, I scored 10 mostly by guessing.

Who lit the Olympic cauldron in Sydney Olympics 2000?
[ A ] Cathy Freeman
[ B ] Phar Lap
[ C ] Sir Donald Bradman

I think b would have been hilarious

[Bartrim]

Woo Hoo I scored 7 out of 20. See ya's I'm being booted out.

I could of sworn it was Phar Lap at the olympic opening ceremony...

[dirge]

Going by the rules of this forum, the most frequent poster here could be a tumbleweed real soon! d:

[TheDirtyDigger]

WTH? That is a crap test. I scored 70% and still it said I failed. Guess it's back to Bangladesh for me.

[STL]

I failed. Deportation for me!

[Borgeman]

lol 13/20 - FAIL

George

[TheDirtyDigger]

It truly is a crap quiz.
Tiby hit the nail on the head almost perfectly, because even though it is anglo-centric I still doubt 1 in 100000 anglo-Australians could answer everything or much at all correctly. You need to have specifically looked up the answers without studying the subject as a whole to get it right and that's what would-be immigrants will do to pass instead of actually learning anything meaningful about Australia.
The thing about Caroline Chisolm for example....It doesn't matter or mean crap what specific year she came to Australia....what she actually did when she did come here is of far greater importance and inspiration than some obscure date.

The questions also should be open-ended to reflect what someone knows about an area of Australian study.

Like....

What do you think of Warnie's text average?

List as many reasons you can think of why Aussie Rules is better than every other code.

Why is bagging Poms the patriotic duty of all Australians? etc etc.


You get the idea.

[Trailer Park Ninja]

I think any potential newcomer to this country that can sing the entire national anthem with gusto should be allowed in. God knows that they may do it better than most Australians.

Case in point, the Australia Day celebrations at Darling Harbour, Sydney. Before the fireworks spectacle, you could see a wave of people with their Aussie flags draped on their backs like capes, face painted etc in strong form with the Oi Oi Oi chant.

In my section of the crowd (I was out in front of the Imax), come national anthem time, they don't even sing. Like WTF??? How could you not sing the national anthem? It was all the more embarrasing with the Spanish tourists next to me asking me why we don't sing it loud and proud.
It wasn't very vocal in general but maybe it was cause people preferred the soparano singer to sing it solo

[Paulbot]

We have a bad national anthem. People prefer to sing along to Waltzing Matilda.