New South Wales Quiz Questions
1. The capital and largest city
Answer: Sydney
2. Which of these is a mining city in western NSW?
Answer: Broken Hill
The City of Broken Hill is the largest regional centre in the western half of New South Wales.
3. What animal do you have to look out for while driving at night?
Answer: Kangaroos
Most kangaroos are nocturnal, and can make quite a dent in your car! Koalas can also be seen crossing as well.
4. A big dam/lake where you can go fishing, boating, water-skiing, and lots of other things near Wellington in central NSW is:
Answer: Burrendong Dam
Windamere dam is further east near Lithgow, Lake Macquarie is on the coast near Newcastle, and Harrison dam is made up.
5. How hot is a typical summer day in Dubbo?
Answer: about 32c
The highest recorded temperature at Dubbo in the last 42 years prior to August 2006 was 46c.
6. Which national park is the rock called ‘The Bread Knife’ in?
Answer: Warrumbungles
The tallest peak of the Bread Knife is about 100m.
7. What is the total area of NSW?
Answer: 809 444 sq km
This makes it the 5th largest state/territory in Australia.
8. Which town is near Cocoparra National Park?
Answer: Griffith
It is 25km north-east of Griffith.
9. Which of these towns has some beautiful caves that you can look in?
Answer: Wellington
The Wellington caves and Phosphate mine are just east of the town.
10. What is the name of the river that goes through Bourke in North-Western NSW?
Answer: Darling
The Murray-Darling river is 2,739km long, making it the longest river in Australia.
11. Which central-western NSW town is known as the ‘hub of the west’?
Answer: Dubbo
Dubbo is known as this because three major highways run through it, the Golden, the Newell, and the Mitchell.