The Melbourne Quiz
 

This appeared in the Age so I post it here for a bit of fun.

I guarantee there will be posts about the weather, how much better London or Sydney is, was there for a day and didn't like it ........... :rofl:

How well do you know Melbourne?

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I love Melbourne but I'm ashamed of my score, must try to visit more often.

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5/10 Not good, I should have got at least 6, mucked one up.

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I had a look, but didn't have a clue!








By the way, what is the weather like there at the moment?:scarper:

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That's bad - I got 4!

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8/10, and today has been sunny and t-shirt weather.

BB

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Oh My God! :egyptian::egyptian::egyptian: (Does a dance around the kitchen)

Lol....I hope it's half decent for when we arrive. Getting excited a bit now. :thumbsup:

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:lightbulb: It's ok now.... I just got 10/10 :nod: :o :p

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Liar

It's been sunny and long shirt weather - I've been weeding.

And tomorrow it's going to **** down.

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I actually think September is about the worst month...So you've timed it to perfection! :p

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7/10 for me

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8/10

Only been to Melbourne for sum total of 8 days

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Well done all of you. I have a head start as I was born there so got 9/10 - their answer for Moomba tripped me up - (i.e. up your bum). :lol: Like this person here, I was always told it meant let's get together.

"At Melbourne’s very first Moomba carnival in March of 1955, my father recalls Sir Reginald Dallas Brooks, opening the proceedings from the banks of the Yarra river. In his crown-appointed role as Governor of Victoria, he made a plummy declaration that ‘moomba’ is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. This definition has been repeated to Victorian schoolchildren ever since.

But a long-standing legend has it the moomba means something quite different altogether. In many Aboriginal languages, -ba is a suffix that roughly means ‘at the place of’. And every Koori knows that mum – which rhymes with ‘vroom’ – is the local word for ‘bum’.

So Moomba effectively means ‘up your bum’."

I can remember on a previous trip playing a tennis match on the morning of the 46.4 deg day when it was low 40's by lunchtime!!

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https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sour...bourne+weather

Bit like most weeks a complete variety to keep things intersting:thumbup:

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Sorry I admit I am a liar.

Let me correct myself, as I think this is just semantics.

It was sunny and I was wearing a t-shirt in the garden all day.

BB