SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE QUIZ SPACE

How much do you know about the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

When was the Sydney Harbour What event did the building of Bridge completed and opened the Sydney Harbour Bridge to traffic? coincide with? a) 1912 a) The great flu epidemic of 1918 b) 1922 b) The Great War of 1914 to 1918 c) 1932 c) The Great Depression between 1929 d) 1942 and 1939

Granite blocks quarried near What type of bridge is the which New South Wales town were Sydney Harbour Bridge? used on the pylons of the Sydney a) Arch bridge Harbour Bridge? b) Suspension bridge a) Bega c) Girder bridge b) Cooma d) Box girder bridge c) Port Macquarie d) Moruya What is the Sydney Harbour Bridge primarily made of? Who was the premier of a) Fibreglass New South Wales at the time b) Concrete that the bridge was opened? c) Steel a) Jack Lang d) Aluminium b) Neville Wran c) Ben Chifley Where did Dorman Long and d) Bob Menzies Co, the company responsible for building the Sydney Harbour Why was the ribbon-cutting Bridge, come from? ceremony to open the a) China bridge interrupted? b) United Kingdom a) There was an earthquake c) United States of America b) The train carrying the official d) Japan guests broke down c) A protestor on horseback cut Approximately how many the ribbon with a sword rivets hold the Sydney Harbour d) Nobody had a pair of scissors Bridge together? a) Six hundred Who was the chief engineer b) Six thousand responsible for the building of c) Six million the Sydney Harbour Bridge? d) Six billion a) John Bradfield b) Don Bradman c) Edmund Barton www.nma.gov.au/kspace SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE QUIZ SPACE ANSWERS

How much do you know about the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

When was the Sydney Harbour What event did the building of Bridge completed and opened the Sydney Harbour Bridge to traffic? coincide with? a) 1912 a) The great flu epidemic of 1918 b) 1922 b) The Great War of 1914 to 1918 c) 1932 c) The Great Depression between d) 1942 1929 and 1939

Granite blocks quarried near What type of bridge is the which New South Wales town were Sydney Harbour Bridge? used on the pylons of the Sydney a) Arch bridge Harbour Bridge? b) Suspension bridge a) Bega c) Girder bridge b) Cooma d) Box girder bridge c) Port Macquarie d) Moruya What is the Sydney Harbour Bridge primarily made of? Who was the premier of a) Fibreglass New South Wales at the time b) Concrete that the bridge was opened? c) Steel a) Jack Lang d) Aluminium b) Neville Wran c) Ben Chifley Where did Dorman Long and d) Bob Menzies Co, the company responsible for building the Sydney Harbour Why was the ribbon-cutting Bridge, come from? ceremony to open the a) China bridge interrupted? b) United Kingdom a) There was an earthquake c) United States of America b) The train carrying the official d) Japan guests broke down c) A protestor on horseback cut Approximately how many the ribbon with a sword rivets hold the Sydney Harbour d) Nobody had a pair of scissors Bridge together? a) Six hundred Who was the chief engineer b) Six thousand responsible for the building of c) Six million the Sydney Harbour Bridge? d) Six billion a) John Bradfield b) Don Bradman c) Edmund Barton www.nma.gov.au/kspace