Question: Neighbours, Kath & Kim, Winners and Losers, Offspring, and Underbelly are examples of what kind of media produced in Melbourne?
Answer: Television shows

Question: Which national news-based programs are based in Melbourne?
Answer: The Project, Insiders and ABC News Breakfast

Question: Which city is known as the game show capital of Australia?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: How many airports does Melbourne have?
Answer: four

Question: Which airport is the city's main international and domestic gateway?
Answer: Melbourne Airport

Question: Which airport is the second busiest in all of Australia?
Answer: Melbourne Airport

Question: What are the only forms of public transport to and from the city's main airports?
Answer: Buses and taxis

Question: Which rail station was the world's busiest passenger station in 1927?
Answer: Flinders Street Station

Question: In the 1940s, what percentage of travellers used public transport?
Answer: 25%

Question: In 2003, what percentage of travellers used public transport?
Answer: 7.6%

Question: In what year was the public transport system privatised?
Answer: 1999

Question: What was the target percentage of public transport mode share that was set by the state government in 2006?
Answer: 20%

Question: Who manages the water storage and supply for Melbourne?
Answer: Melbourne Water

Question: Who owns Melbourne Water?
Answer: the Victorian Government

Question: Which is Melbourne's largest dam?
Answer: Thomson River Dam

Question: Where is the Thomson River Dam located?
Answer: Victorian Alps

Question: How much of Melbourne's water capacity is the Thomson River Dam capable of holding?
Answer: 60%

Question: Melbourne experienced rapid growth after 1851 due to the discovery of what?
Answer: gold

Question: Melbourne and which other regional cities became the wealthiest cities in the world during the Gold Rush era?
Answer: Ballarat and Geelong

Question: How much did Melbourne's population increase within months of the gold rush?
Answer: three-quarters, from 25,000 to 40,000 inhabitants

Question: By what year had Melbourne overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city?
Answer: 1865

Question: Where was the first federal parliament convened in 1901?
Answer: Royal Exhibition Building

Question: The Governor-General of Australia resided at the Government House in Melbourne until what year?
Answer: 1930

Question: Where was the federal parliament moved after 1927?
Answer: Canberra

Question: On what date was the first federal parliament convened?
Answer: 9 May 1901

Question: During which years did Melbourne experience an economic downturn?
Answer: 1989 to 1992

Question: The Australian Grand Prix moved to Melbourne from where?
Answer: Adelaide

Question: Which city is the center of Australia's "rust belt"?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Which government in 1992 began a campaign to revive the economy?
Answer: Kennett

Question: Which body of water and township of the same name marks the border between Melbourne and Geelong?
Answer: Little River

Question: Little River marks the boundary between Melbourne and which city?
Answer: Geelong

Question: Little River marks the boundary between Geelong and which other city?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Has Melbourne's air quality improved or declined since the 1980s?
Answer: improved significantly

Question: What factors deplete Melbourne water supplies?
Answer: Drought in Victoria, low rainfalls and high temperatures

Question: Which government announced a $3.1 billion Wonthaggi desalination plant in June 2007?
Answer: Bracks Government

Question: How many litres of water will the Wonthaggi desalination plant be capbale of treating per year?
Answer: 150 billion litres

Question: Which factors make Melbourne one of the moust vibrant destinations in Australia?
Answer: The climate, waterfront location and nightlife

Question: For how many years in a row has Melbourne held the top position in a survey of the world's most liveable cities?
Answer: five

Question: How many international overnight visitors came to Melbourne during the year ending March 2014?
Answer: just under two million

Question: How many domestic overnight visitors came to Melbourne during the year ending March 2014?
Answer: 57.7 million

Question: What is Australia's largest free community festival?
Answer: Moomba

Question: What was the world's first feature film?
Answer: The Story of the Kelly Gang

Question: In what city was the world's first feature film shot in 1906?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Why were films banned by Victorian politicans in 1912?
Answer: perceived promotion of crime

Question: What year were bushranger films banned by Victorian politicians?
Answer: 1912

Question: In what "lull" year was On the Beach filmed?
Answer: 1959

Question: What are the most common type of housing outside inner city Melbourne?
Answer: Free standing dwellings with relatively large gardens

Question: Is residential architecture in Melbourne defined by a single architectural style or an eclectic mix of buildings?
Answer: single architectural style

Question: Are townhouses, condominiums, and apartment buildings found more prevalent in the metropolitan area or outside the city?
Answer: metropolitan area (particularly in areas of urban sprawl)

Question: In which areas does Melbourne's diversified economy have strengths?
Answer: finance, manufacturing, research, IT, education, logistics, transportation and tourism

Question: Which city is home to Australia's largest and busiest seaport?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Which company is the world's largest mining company?
Answer: BHP Billiton

Question: Which city is home to Australia's second busiest airport?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: How much money in trade does Australia's largest and busiest seaport handle?
Answer: $75 billion

Question: Which city has the largest Greek-speaking population outside of Europe?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: What is the most common surname in Melbourne's phone book?
Answer: Smith

Question: Which city in Greece is Melbourne's sister city?
Answer: Thessaloniki

Question: What is the secondmost common surname in Melbourne's phone book?
Answer: Nguyen

Question: Which Melbourne based university has campuses in Malaysia?
Answer: Swinburne University

Question: Which university is the second oldest in Australia?
Answer: The University of Melbourne

Question: Which Melbourne based college has a research centre in Prato, Italy?
Answer: Monash

Question: What is the Group of Eight?
Answer: a coalition of leading Australian tertiary institutions offering comprehensive and leading education

Question: What are examples of Youth radio stations?
Answer: ABC Triple J and youth run SYN

Question: Which music stations strive to play under represented music?
Answer: Triple J, and similarly PBS and Triple R

Question: Which radio station caters for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender audiences?
Answer: JOY 94.9

Question: Which station caters to sports fans and enthusiasts?
Answer: SEN 1116

Question: 3MBS and ABC Classic FM play what type of music?
Answer: classical

Question: What are the origins of Melbourne's tram network?
Answer: the city's 1880s land boom

Question: How many passenger trips were made by tram in Melbourne between 2013-2014?
Answer: 176.9 million

Question: How many tram stops are on Melbourne's tram network?
Answer: 1,763

Question: How many routes does Melbourne's bus network consist of?
Answer: almost 300

Question: How many passenger trips were recorded on Melbourne's buses in 2013-2014
Answer: 127.6 million

Question: When was John born?
Answer: 24 December 1166

Question: Who did Henry marry?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Who was Henry's ally?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor

Question: Who backed John's elder brothers?
Answer: Eleanor

Question: Where did Henry travel to?
Answer: Paris

Question: Who returned to Brittany?
Answer: Geoffrey

Question: Who was imprisoned?
Answer: Eleanor