Question: What causes increased pollution and levels of bacteria such as E. coli to rise in the Yarra River and its tributaries?
Answer: septic systems, as well as litter

Question: Investment in what greatly accelerated the outward suburban sprawn and declining inner city population?
Answer: freeway and highway developments

Question: Which government sought to rapidly accelerate the modernisation of Melbourne?
Answer: Bolte

Question: The widening of what street helped to change the face of Melbourne into a car-dominated environment?
Answer: Hoddle Street

Question: Did the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan change Melbourne into a more car-dominated or tram-dominated environment?
Answer: car-dominated

Question: Did the rapid rise of motor vehicle ownership and highway developments lead to an increasing or declining inner city population?
Answer: declining

Question: How many lines does the Melbourne rail network have?
Answer: 16

Question: Which rail station is Melbourne's busiest?
Answer: Flinders Street Station

Question: Which Melbourne rail station was the world's busiest passenger station in 1926?
Answer: Flinders Street Station

Question: During which financial year did the Melbourne rail network record its highest volume of passenger trips?
Answer: 2013–2014

Question: How often does the XPT to Sydney depart?
Answer: twice a day

Question: Which university maintains two major campuses in Melbourne and Geelong and is the third largest university in Victoria?
Answer: Deakin University

Question: What is the role of the DEECD?
Answer: 'provide policy and planning advice for the delivery of education

Question: Who oversees education in Melbourne?
Answer: Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)

Question: Which city is often referred to as Australia's garden city?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Which Australian state was once known as the garden state?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Why is urban Melbourne divided into hundreds of suburbs?
Answer: addressing and postal purposes

Question: Approximately how many sunny days does Melbourne receive annually?
Answer: 48.6

Question: What is the range of Melbourne's dewpoint temperatures in the summer?
Answer: 9.5 °C (49.1 °F) to 11.7 °C (53.1 °F)

Question: Which suburbs usually are affected by relatively narrow streams of heavy showers?
Answer: eastern suburbs

Question: Is Port Phillip generally warmer or colder than the surrounding oceans and/or the land mass?
Answer: warmer

Question: Which act sets functions for Melbourne such as urban planning and waste management?
Answer: Local Government Act 1989

Question: From where does the Victorian state government operate?
Answer: Parliament House in Spring Street

Question: Contrary to other countires, are public transport, traffic control, policing, and education the responsibility of local or state government?
Answer: state government

Question: What are the dimensions of the Hoddle Grid?
Answer: 1 by 1⁄2 mile (1.61 by 0.80 km)

Question: What is the name of a popular arcade located within the Hoddle Grid?
Answer: Royal Arcade

Question: Which edge of the Hoddle Grid fronts onto the Yarra River?
Answer: southern

Question: Which railway station was the busiest in the world in the mid-1920s?
Answer: Flinders Street Station

Question: On which street is the A.C. Goode House located?
Answer: Collins Street

Question: In what year was construction on the Flinders Street Station completed?
Answer: 1909

Question: Who designed the A.C. Goode House?
Answer: Wright, Reed & Beaver

Question: What style of architecture is the A.C. Goode House?
Answer: Neo Gothic

Question: What are the two most popular sports in Melbourne?
Answer: Australian rules football and cricket

Question: When was the first official Test cricket match played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
Answer: March 1877

Question: Where is the Australian Football League headquartered?
Answer: Docklands Stadium

Question: How many of the Australian Football League's teams are based in the Melbourne metropolitan area?
Answer: Nine

Question: Up to how many AFL matches are played each week in Melbourne?
Answer: five

Question: Which port is Australia's largest container and general cargo port?
Answer: The Port of Melbourne

Question: How far upstream to water taxis run along the Yarra River?
Answer: South Yarra

Question: How many shipping containers did the Port of Melbourne handle during a 12-month period in 2007, making it one of the top five ports in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: two million

Question: Which is Australia's busiest port?
Answer: The Port of Melbourne

Question: Where is Station Pier located?
Answer: Port Phillip Bay

Question: How many people are employed by the ICT industry in Melbourne?
Answer: 60,000

Question: What percentage of Australia's ICT workforce is imployed in Melbourne's ICT industry?
Answer: one third

Question: In 2008, Melbourne overtook what city with the amount of money that domestic tourists spent in the city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Domestic visitors spend about how much money in the city of Melbourne annually?
Answer: $15.8 billion

Question: How many international visitors did Melbourne have in 2004?
Answer: 1.88 million

Question: Melbourne's population could overtake that of Sydney by 2037 or 2039 primarily due to what factor?
Answer: larger levels of internal migration losses assumed for Sydney

Question: In how many scenarios will Sydney remain higher than Melbourne in population beyond 2056?
Answer: two

Question: According to the first scenario projected by the ABS, how soon could Melbourne overtake Sydney's population level?
Answer: 2037 or 2039

Question: Which theatre was Melbourne's first live performance institution?
Answer: Pavilion

Question: The Princess Theatre, Regent Theatre, and Forum Theatre are members of which of Melbourne's theater districts?
Answer: East End Theatre District

Question: In what year did the Pavilion open?
Answer: 1841

Question: Where are the Melbourne Recital Centre and Southbank Theatre located?
Answer: Southbank

Question: From what year does the Sidney Myer Music Bowl date?
Answer: 1955

Question: How many daily newspapers serve Melbourne?
Answer: Three

Question: How many free-to-air television stations service Greater Melbourne and Geelong?
Answer: Six

Question: From where is C31 broadcast?
Answer: transmitters at Mount Dandenong and South Yarra

Question: What type of companies are Broadsheet and ThreeThousand?
Answer: Hybrid digital/print media

Question: When did Melbourne Heart become known as Melbourne City FC?
Answer: June 2014

Question: What are Melbourne's two ice hockey teams named?
Answer: Melbourne Ice and Melbourne Mustangs

Question: In which river was the annual Race to Prince's Bridge held?
Answer: Yarra

Question: Where does the soccer club Melbourne Victory play home games?
Answer: Etihad Stadium

Question: Which basketball club in Melbourne plays in the NBL?
Answer: Melbourne United

Question: Does Melbourne have a high or low dependency on the automobile?
Answer: high

Question: Which freeway spans the large Bolte Bridge?
Answer: CityLink

Question: How many private vehicles travel Melbourne's 13,870 miles of road?
Answer: 3.6 million

Question: Which freeway links Melbourne and Sydney?
Answer: Hume Freeway

Question: What have Postcode 3000 and Melbourne 2030 aimed to do?
Answer: curtail urban sprawl

Question: How many people did Carlton have per km2 between 2012 and 2013?
Answer: 9,000

Question: How many people did Fitzroy have per km2 between 2012 and 2013?
Answer: 7,900

Question: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as of June 2013, inner city Melbourne had a population density of how many people per km2?
Answer: 12,400

Question: Where are Million Dollar Minute and Family Feud based?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Where are Dancing with the Stars, MasterChef, and The Block filmed?
Answer: in and around Melbourne