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  1. Name the 3 suburban stations on the OBahn

  2. Where does the Cockle Train run?

  3. According to the words of the Song of Australia, what colour is the sky?

  4. Where is the Ghan Railway? 

  5. What was a diprotodon?

  6. Name the 2 houses of the South Australian Parliament

  7. Which famous SA male dancer is commemorated in the name of a theatre in Mount Gambier?

  8. What industry is associated with Coffin Bay?

  9. What is the name of the river that flows through Strathalbyn?

  10. Who was Victoria Square named after?

  11. Which town is at Latitude 37' 50" S,  Longitude 140' 47"?

  12. What is the gem emblem of SA?

  13. Which famous Australian artist painted the gum trees of Hahndorf?

  14. What is the faunal emblem of SA?

  15. What is cooperage?

  16. What is the floral emblem of SA?

  17. What is the name of a limestone formation that grows from the roof of a cave?

  18. If a sheep is a wether, what has happened to it?

  19. What was on the sandwich that helped make Hush invisible in 'Possum Magic'?

  20. What is the South Australian State cricket team called?

  21. As the 'cocky flies' how far is it from Victor Harbor to Coober Pedy?

  22. What are these? 

  23. Who is this? Which Adelaide school did he attend?

  24. A book of Ian Bone’s is shortlisted in the CBCA 2003 Book of the Year Award. In which category?

  25. NIPS XI by Adelaide’s Ruth Starke won the CBCA Younger Readers Award in 2001. It has also won the title of Honour Book in the 2003 UNESCO Prize for Children's Literature. (The UNESCO awards are for children's books which promote tolerance.) A sequel to this book has just been released. What is it?

  26. Who was the Young South Australian of the Year in 2002?