We\u2019re now over a week into lockdown five and our Willaura contributor Heather Fleming has come up with a local quiz to test your knowledge.<\/p>\n
How much do you know about our local district?<\/p>\n
Try answering the following questions. Answers can be found on page ?????<\/p>\n
1. How did the Hopkins River get its name?<\/p>\n
2. Who is Delacombe Way named after, and why?<\/p>\n
3. What two highways intersect at Lake Bolac?<\/p>\n
4. What pair visited Ararat in 1881, and ended up with a street named after them?<\/p>\n
5. How did the Mafeking goldfield come by its name?<\/p>\n
6. Which opening came first; the Ararat Hospital or the railway line?<\/p>\n
7. How many years elapsed between the Ararat Railway station closing in May 1994 and reopening the following century?<\/p>\n
8. What well known Ararat institution closed in December 1993?<\/p>\n
9. Which was built first; Pyrenees House or the Town Hall?<\/p>\n
10. What was formed in 1859 to protect the township?<\/p>\n
11. Where did Richmond Premiership player David Astbury begin his football career?<\/p>\n
12. What organisation is based at the corner of Albert and Maude Streets Ararat?<\/p>\n
13. On what Lane is the Willaura Farm to Pub traditionally conducted?<\/p>\n
14. Where were former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tammy married?<\/p>\n
15. Where in China is Ararat\u2019s sister city?<\/p>\n
16. What was the original purpose of the building that now houses the Langi Morgala Museum?<\/p>\n
17. In 1931 the Ararat State School Mothers Club raised 152 pounds to erect a Memorial in order to register \u2018their disgust at this atrocity\u201d. Who does the memorial commemorate and what was the \u2018atrocity\u2019 referred to?<\/p>\n
18. When did electricity come to Ararat?<\/p>\n
19. What about sewerage? What year was that completed?<\/p>\n
20. To the closest million dollars, what is Ararat Rural City Council\u2019s Capital Works expenditure, as forecast in its 21-22 Draft Budget?<\/p>\n
21. Who planted the first of the vines along Barkly Street?<\/p>\n
22. Name one former and one hopeful Olympic cyclist, both of whom come from Ararat?\u00a0 23. Born in Ararat and raised in Lake Bolac, what song is Neil Murray famous for?<\/p>\n
24. What rank was John McNally, and how is he remembered at EGHS?<\/p>\n
25. What three activities were banned on Sundays in the Government\u2019s 1871 \u201cChinese Proclamation\u201d?<\/p>\n
26. Which is longer; the Hopkins River or the highway from Ararat to Melbourne?<\/p>\n
27. Kalymna, Clematis, Splitters, Beehive, and Broken are all in the Grampians National Park. What feature do they have in common?<\/p>\n
28. What festival has been regularly held in March at Lake Bolac but was postponed this year due to the Covid-19 outbreak?<\/p>\n
29. Name five crops grown by broad acre farmers in the Ararat Rural City?<\/p>\n
30. What event would you see on the Moyston Football Oval on the closest Saturday to St Patricks Day?<\/p>\n
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1. Major Mitchell named it after his friend Sir John Paul Hopkins.<\/p>\n
2. Victoria\u2019s Governor of the day Sir Rohan Delacombe used the road during his visit to the district.<\/p>\n
3. Glenelg and Hopkins.<\/p>\n
4. Princes Albert Edward and George.<\/p>\n
5. The Siege of Mafeking in the Boer War.<\/p>\n
6. Hospital 1860, railway line 1875.<\/p>\n
7. Ten years: July 2004.<\/p>\n
8. Aradale.<\/p>\n
9. Pyrenees House 1866, Town Hall 1899.<\/p>\n
10. The Urban Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n
11.Tatyoon.<\/p>\n
12. Ararat & District Pony Club.<\/p>\n
13. Sandhills (\u201cSandy\u201d) Lane.<\/p>\n
14. All Saints Anglican Church, Willaura.<\/p>\n
15. Taishan.<\/p>\n
16. A Wool Store.<\/p>\n
17. Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell.<\/p>\n
18. 1913.<\/p>\n
19. 1940.<\/p>\n
20. $17,534 million.<\/p>\n
21. Mr Grano.<\/p>\n
22. Shane Kelly, Lucas Hamilton.<\/p>\n
23. \u2018My Island Home\u2019.<\/p>\n
24. Sergeant of Police. First officer in Victoria to be killed in the line of duty. Honoured through Police Blue Ribbon Foundation donation with a wing named after him.<\/p>\n
25. Lottery, trading, gambling.<\/p>\n
26. River 271km, road 248km.<\/p>\n
27. They are all waterfalls.<\/p>\n
28. Lake Bolac Eel Festival.<\/p>\n
29. Wheat, barley, canola, faber beans, oats.<\/p>\n
30. Sheep Dog Trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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