ANZAC Spirit Trivia
Test your ANZAC Spirit and World War I knowledge with ANZAC Spirit Trivia. With a range of
easy, intermediate and hard questions the whole family can play. Play as a group with a buzzer or
direct questions at individual players. The choice is yours! Why not play virtual trivia using Skype
or Facetime with friends and family?
WHAT YOU’LL NEED? DIFFICULTY LEVEL
• A quiz master to ask the questions,
check the answers and keep score Easy (suitable for children)
• Supply answer sheet to contestants
to print out.
• A timer if you wish to put a time limit Intermediate
on answers.
• A prize for the winner
Hard
ROUND ONE
Question 1 Question 2
I am awarded to defence personnel as a
Traditionally, on ANZAC Day, we stand in
mark of honour for military service. Veterans,
silence to commemorate those who lost their
Veteran’s families and current serving
lives defending our country and way of life.
defence personnel wear them on ANZAC and
How long does this silence last?
Remembrance Days. What am I?
Answer Answer
1 minute or 60 seconds 1 minute or 60 seconds
Question 3 Question 4
On ANZAC Day we lay something at On ANZAC Day a song is played by either a
memorials that are made of flowers. What are Trumpet or Bugle during the service?
they?
Answer Answer
Wreaths The Last Post
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Question 5 Question 6
Veterans and their families do this through the The ANZAC’s were known to display this
streets to reach the cenotaph or memorial on quality which means to overcome our fears.
ANZAC Day. What is it? What quality was it?
Answer Answer
March Courage
Question 7 Question 8
When leaving Gallipoli, the ANZAC’s came ANZAC’s were known to be close and look
up with a cunning plan so the enemy they after each other as friends. This quality is well
believed they were still there which masked known across the world as being uniquely
their retreat. This is the ability to adapt and Australian. What is it?
overcome a challenge. What ANZAC quality
is this?
Answer Answer
Ingenuity Mateship
Question 9 Question 10
Even when times were tough in the trenches, ANZAC’s were known to display this quality
bullets were flying and they were running low on the battlefield which means to not give up
on food, the ANZAC’s always had time to easily and keep going. What is it?
make a joke and lighten the load. What
quality is this?
Answer Answer
Humour Endurance
Question 11 Question 12
Beside Poppies, what other plant is What does ANZAC stand for?
sometimes worn on ANZAC Day?
Answer Answer
Rosemary Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
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ROUND TWO `
Question 13 Question 14
By what name is World War I otherwise
What year did World War I begin? known as?
Answer Answer
1914 The Great War
Question 15 Question 16
What was the Australian Army known
What year did World War I end? as?
Answer Answer
1918 Australian Imperial Force or AIF
Question 17 Question 18
Australian soldiers fighting at Gallipoli were
On what date did the Gallipoli landing occur?
fighting soldiers from which country?
Answer Answer
25th April 1915 Turkey
Question 19 Question 20
Which nations formed the Allies in WWI?
What is the Victoria Cross?
Answer
Answer
Great Britain and her empire including
Highest British Commonwealth Award for
Australia, New Zealand and Canada; France,
conspicuous bravery in the face of the enemy
Belgium, Russia and USA
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Question 21 Question 22
Nearest to the closest thousand, how many How many Australian soldiers were killed in
Australians enlisted in WWI? action in WWI?
Answer Answer
416,000 60,000
Question 23 Question 24
Which nations formed the Central
Who was appointed as Australia’s first official
Powers as they were known or the countries
war correspondent?
the Allies were fighting against?
Answer Answer
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Charles Bean
Turkey
Question 25 Question 26
Where were the ANZAC forces based before Where were Simpson and his donkey
the Gallipoli campaign? famously involved as stretcher bearers?
Answer Answer
Cairo, Egypt Gallipoli
Question 27 Question 28
Which French village was liberated by
Australian forces and holds an annual What are the words of the Ode?
ANZAC Day service in gratitude
Answer
They shall grow not old, as we that are left
grow old;
Answer Age shall not weary them, nr the years
Villers Bretonneux condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the
morning
We will remember them
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Question 29 Question 30
Where is the unknown soldier’s final resting
What was the name of Simpsons donkey? place?
Answer Answer
Duffy Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Question 31 Question 32
What game did the Australian Soldiers
Who was the Prime Minister when Australia
famously play in front of the Great Pyramids
entered WWI?
of Giza in Egypt?
Answer Answer
Aussie Rules Football Joseph Cook
ROUND THREE
Question 33 Question 34
The Gallipoli campaign was fought for control
What was the name of the assassinated
of which strategically significant stretch of
leader whose death sparked WWI?
water?
Answer Answer
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria The Dardenelles
Question 35 Question 36
Who was the commander of the ANZAC Who was Kemal Ataturk?
forces at Gallipoli?
Answer
Answer
Commander of the Turkish 19th Division
General Alexander Godley
during the Gallipoli Campaign
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Question 37 Question 38
How many Victoria Cross awards were
awarded to Australian soldiers during the What date did the ANZAC’s leave Gallipoli?
Battle of Lone Pine?
Answer Answer
7 20th of December 1915
Question 39 Question 40
Who was Australia’s Prime Minister at the end Who was the commander of
of WWI who famously said the phrase: ‘I Australian troops in France who was admired
speak for 60,000 dead!’? for his technical intelligence?
Answer Answer
William ‘Billy’ Hughes John Monash
Question 41 Question 42
Which Bugle call follows the Last Post and
the minute silence at the ANZAC Day dawn Who was the last surviving ANZAC?
service?
Answer Answer
Reveille Alec Campbell
Question 43 Question 44
The Ode of Remembrance was taken from a
Who planned the Gallipoli Landings in WWI? Poem entitled ‘For the fallen’. Who wrote the
original poem?
Answer Answer
Winston Churchill Laurence Binyon
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