Question: How does Melbourne's skyline rank in terms of other skylines in Australia?
Answer: second largest

Question: Tasmania was formerly known as what?
Answer: Van Diemen's Land

Question: How many acres did John Batman claim to purchase?
Answer: 600,000

Question: Current central and northern Melbourne was explored by whom?
Answer: John Batman

Question: How many elders did John Batman claim to have negotiated with?
Answer: eight

Question: On what date did Batman reach Melbourne?
Answer: 2 September 1835

Question: What is locally referred to as the Australian Dream?
Answer: quarter acre home and garden

Question: Do the Docklands, St. Kilda Road, and Southbank areas feature high-density or low-density forms?
Answer: high-density

Question: Which year marked the start of the private automobile's popularity increase?
Answer: 1945

Question: Is much of Melbourne's metropolitan area characterized as low-density sprawl or high-density sprawl?
Answer: low density

Question: When Victoria was established as a seperate colony, the need for what followed?
Answer: public buildings

Question: During what two decades were the Parliament House, Treasury Building, Victoria Barracks, State Library, and General Post Office commenced?
Answer: 1850s and 1860s

Question: Melbourne's weath was due in part to what event?
Answer: gold rush

Question: Which writer's festival is home to Melbourne?
Answer: Melbourne Writers Festival

Question: What type of work are The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Monkey Grip, and The Slap?
Answer: novels

Question: What do the novels The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Monkey Grip, and The Slap have in common?
Answer: set in Melbourne

Question: Where are Peter Carey, Germaine Greer, and Thomas Browne from?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: What occupation to Peter Carey, Germaine Greer, and Thomas Browne hold?
Answer: writers and poets

Question: Which phrase was coined by George Augustus Henry Sala during a visit to Melbourne in 1885?
Answer: Marvellous Melbourne

Question: In what year did the land boom reach its peak of development?
Answer: 1888

Question: In what year was a hydraulic facility established?
Answer: 1887

Question: In what year was the APA Building completed?
Answer: 1889

Question: What did Melbourne's hydraulic facilities help create that spurred high-rise developments?
Answer: elevators

Question: Melbourne is the world's most liveable city according to whom?
Answer: Economist Intelligence Unit

Question: For how many years has Melbourne been considered the world's most liveable city?
Answer: fifth year in a row

Question: Which city is referred to as Australia's cultural capital?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: What is one example of Australian contemporary dance?
Answer: Melbourne Shuffle

Question: How many of the top twenty high school sin Australia are located in Mebourne according to the Better Education ranking?
Answer: six

Question: According to the Toyal Melbourne Institute of Technology, how did Melborne rank as a top university city in 2008?
Answer: fourth

Question: How many public universities are located in Melbourne?
Answer: seven

Question: Is the University of Melbourne a public or private institution?
Answer: public

Question: Has there been a recent increase or decrease in international students studying in Melbourne?
Answer: rapid increase

Question: In what year were height limits lifted in the Melbourne CBD?
Answer: 1958

Question: Which was the first new indoor mall in Melbourne?
Answer: Chadstone Shopping Centre

Question: What happened to many of the larger suburban mansions from the boom era?
Answer: demolished or subdivided

Question: Which two areas saw a significant renewal after the post-war period and significantly modernised the city?
Answer: CBD and St Kilda Road

Question: In what year was Melbourne the host city for the first Olympic Games held in the southern hemisphere?
Answer: 1956

Question: In what three years was Melbourne proclaimed the "World's Ultimate Sports City"?
Answer: 2006, 2008 and 2010

Question: Previous to Melbourne, where were all Olympic games held?
Answer: Europe and the United States

Question: Where did the National Sports Museum reopen in 2008?
Answer: Olympic Stand

Question: Which city is so far the southernmost city to host the Olympic Games?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: In what year was the first plan for the city commissioned?
Answer: 1837

Question: On what date did the official general post office open?
Answer: 13 April 1837

Question: What was the first plan for the city in 1837 called?
Answer: the Hoddle Grid

Question: What was the settlement originally named?
Answer: Batmania

Question: Was Melbourne more or less affected by the Late-2000s financial crisis in comparison to other Australian cities?
Answer: less affected

Question: Which market in Melbourne remained strong during the Late-2000s financial crisis and resulted in historically high property prices and rent increases?
Answer: property market

Question: After Melbourne, which were the next two fastest growing Australian cities in 2009?
Answer: Brisbane and Perth

Question: What is the name given to Melbourne's population strategy that was revised in 2008? 
Answer: Melbourne @ Five Million strategy

Question: How many of the big four banks are headquartered in Melbourne?
Answer: Two

Question: Which two of the big four banks are headquartered in Melbourne?
Answer: NAB and ANZ

Question: Which city is Australia's second-largest industrial centre?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Which south-eastern suburb is home to Nintendo's Australian headquarters?
Answer: Scoresby

Question: Melbourne is home to a research and development hub for which auto manufacturer?
Answer: Ford Australia

Question: In what two decades was the layout of Melbourne's inner suburbs established?
Answer: 1850s and 1860s

Question: In what year did the Melbourne Cricket Club secure possession of its now famous ground, the MCG?
Answer: 1855

Question: Around what year did Yarra rowing clubs and "regattas" become popular?
Answer: 1859

Question: In what year was the Melbourne Cup first run?
Answer: 1861

Question: What was the first public monumnet acquired in Melbourne in 1864?
Answer: the Burke and Wills statue

Question: What percentage of Melburnians speak only English at home?
Answer: 68.1%

Question: What is the second-most-common language in Melborne?
Answer: Chinese

Question: The Melbourne statistical division population has grown by how many people each year since 2005?
Answer: 70,000

Question: What factors make Melbourne more attractie than Sydney for overseas immigrants?
Answer: more affordable housing and cost of living

Question: During which seasons are Melbourne's temperature differentials most pronounced?
Answer: spring and summer

Question: Which type of weather fronts are responsible for severe weather such as gales, thunderstorms, hail, and heavy rain in Melbourne?
Answer: cold fronts

Question: Is Melbourne known for changeable or steady weather patterns?
Answer: changeable

Question: What is Melbourne's Koppen climate classification?
Answer: Cfb

Question: What is one cause for Melbourne's fluctuating weather patterns?
Answer: Melbourne's location situated on the boundary of the very hot inland areas and the cool southern ocean

Question: Which government project aimed to deepen Melbourne ports by dredging?
Answer: the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project

Question: Why was the Port Phillip Channel Deppening Project subject to controversy and strict regulations?
Answer: fears that beaches and marine wildlife could be affected

Question: Up to how many cigarette butts enter the storm water runoff every day in Melbourne?
Answer: 350,000

Question: What initiative was launched in Melbourne in February 2010 as an effort to transition human society towards sustainability?
Answer: The Transition Decade