Test your knowledge about our flag!

You may realise that Australia's flag is the only one to fly over an entire continent, but how much else do you know about our chief national symbol?

Test your knowledge about our flag!
You may realise that Australia's flag is the only one to fly over an entire continent, but how much else do you know about our chief national symbol?

(1) Following federation in 1901 the new Commonwealth Government held an open competition calling for public input into the design of a flag. Who provided the prize money for the "flag design competition"?

a. A tobacco company
b. The Commonwealth Government
c. A literary journal
d. All of the above

(2) The opportunity to design a new flag for the new nation of Australia really captured the public imagination. In proportion with Australia ?s population now, how many entries would be needed to replicate the 1901 response?

a. 50,000
b. 2,000
c. 200,000
d. 20,000

(3) The Southern Cross featured on the flag is a constellation that can only be seen in the night skies of the Southern hemisphere, and it also gives acknowledgement to aboriginal Australians because it is so prominent in their mythology.

What is the name given to each of the stars in the Southern Cross?

(4) Australian National Flag Day marks the flags birthday. It was proclaimed by the Governor-General in 1996 to "commemorate the day in 1901 on which the Australian national flag was first flown?.

What day each year do we celebrate "Flag Day??

(5) Which famous Australian wrote the words: "And with Australia's flag shall fly A spray of wattle bough to symbolise our unity - We're all Australians now"

a. Dorothea Mackellar
b. Sir Robert Menzies
c. "Banjo" Paterson
d. Rupert McCall