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Are you up for Sale? … Quiz

1. I am travelling directly between the NSW towns of Bathurst and Lithgow. Which highway am I on?

 

2. The Victorian town of Sale was once called Flooding Creek but was re-named:

a) When Sir Alan Arrowsmith, who once owned 80% of the town’s buildings, put them all up for sale at the same time.

b) In honour of Major-General Sir Robert Sale, a British army officer who died in the First Anglo-Sikh War.

c) By notoriously bad speller, Admiral Thomas Redmond, who noted in 1832. ‘We had to sale along the previously unnavigated Thomson River on smaller craft before arriving at a most inviting area.’

 

3. Mr Rear Ivy (anagram). Good place to spot a croc!

 

4.It sounds like Harry and Meghan might have got married in this NSW town … but they didn’t.

 

5. Shortest road distance between NT towns of Katherine and Elliott?
6. a) 421km
   b) 569km
   c) 671km

 

 

Answers:

1. Great Western Highway
2. b) In honour of Major-General Sir Robert Sale, a British army officer who died in the First Anglo-Sikh War.
3. Mary River
4. Windsor
5. a) 421km