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NAIDOC Trivia

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1. Who was the Aboriginal actor who starred as Detective Michael Riley in Water Rats?
2. What is the name of the Aboriginal dance company which performed at the Sydney Olympics 2000?
3. Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal was first known as?
4. Who were the Olympic gold medallist and Logie/AFI-award-winning actor who starred in the SBS series Going Bush?
5. Which singer took home Single of the Year and Artist of the Year at the 2005 Deadlys?
6. Which artist’s debut solo album Charcoal Lane included the song ‘Took the Children Away’?
7. Which Aboriginal actor played a lead role in the 1971 film Walkabout?
8. Which country music artist took home four Golden Guitars at the 34th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia held in Tamworth in 2006?
9. Which Aboriginal artist became famous for his watercolour paintings of Central Australian landscapes?
10. Which Aboriginal writer is depicted on the Australian $50 note?
11. Who is the host of the Channel 7 program, The Great Outdoors?
12. In which Northern Territory community did the Central desert art movement (based on so-called ‘dot painting’) begin in the 1970s?

1. Which Aboriginal AFL footballer kicked the first ever goal at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium?
2. Who was the first Aboriginal woman to play cricket for Australia?
3. In what year did the first Australian cricket team (an Aboriginal team) tour England?
4. Who was the first Aboriginal footballer to play in the VFL/AFL?
5. Which Aboriginal boxer won the world bantamweight title in 1968?
6. Which Aboriginal athlete competed at the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000?
7. Which Aboriginal tennis player won Wimbledon twice and was a top-ranked player for more than ten years?
8. In the early 1930s who was feared as the fastest bowler in Australia?
9. Which VFL/AFL footballer from the 1930s was also a prominent activist for Indigenous rights and later Governor of South Australia?
10. With which sport is legendary Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins associated?
11. Which VFL/AFL footballer made the famous gesture of pulling up his shirt and pointing to his black skin to express pride in his Aboriginality?
12. Who was the first Australian Indigenous athlete to win an Olympic gold medal?

1. Who was the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Parliament of Australia?
2. Aden Ridgeway was the Deputy Leader of which political party?
3. Who designed the Aboriginal Flag?
4. Which Torres Strait Islander began the famous case that ended in the recognition of native title?
5. When was the Aboriginal Tent Embassy first established on the lawns of Old Parliament House in Canberra?
6. Who led the “Freedom Rides” in 1965 through western New South Wales protesting discrimination against Aboriginal people?
7. Who was the first Aboriginal to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army?
8. On what date do Torres Strait Islanders celebrate the ‘Coming of the Light’ festival?
9. Which Aboriginal man befriended Arthur Phillip, first Governor of New South Wales, and travelled to England with him?
10. What was the name given to the Aboriginal protest on 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of white settlement?
11. On what date did hundreds of thousands of Australians walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of Reconciliation?
12. What event does National Sorry Day (26 May) commemorate?