Each Issue of our Placenames Australia Newsletter, since 2002, contains a Placenames Puzzle with 20 questions with the answer being a placename.
Test you knowledge of Australian placenames, with this month’s puzzle.
Sports and Hobbies
All the clues reveal placenames are connected with sports or hobbies (disregard spelling) e.g. (Qld/Vic/WA) Very fashionable UK horse racing venue … (A) Ascot
1. (NSW) Supreme bliss for anglers
2. (NSW) You might expect fried chicken at this Derby
3. (NSW) The purpose in mounting a horse
4. (NSW) Home of the Golden Guitar
5. (Qld) No. 1 Olympic award; sea shore
6. (Qld) A long distance for a foot race
7. (Qld) The places for speleologists
8. (WA) Golf term – a hole played in two strokes under par; bark of hounds
9. (NT) Sagittarius, the ninth zodiacal constellation
10. (NT) Rifle or musket, for example
Answers can be found in the September 2005 Issue of the Placenames Australia Newsletter.
