Or perhaps a quiz to keep the four corners from closing in?
Click on the answer to reveal the amazing truth!
1. Did 393 Chinese coolies from Macao arrive in Hobart Town in 1851, as mentioned in Jupp’s The Australian People?
[Yes] [No] [Plausible] [It’s in a book it must be right] [Wouldn’t we have heard more?] [No idea]
2. New Gold Mountain is the obvious translation of 新金山 (San Gum Saan/Xin Jin Shan).
[Agree] [Disagree] [Maybe] [It depends] [New Goldfields is better?] [What are you talking about?]
3. The White Australia policy’s Dictation Test was made unfairly difficult so that Chinese people and other non-English speakers could not enter Australia.
[Agree] [Disagree] [Everyone knows this] [It was given in any European language] [It was a fake]
4. When the first lot of Chinese gold seekers turned up in Bathurst in 1856 they sold souvenir fans to the locals.
5. The answers revealed here are all amazingly true.
Enjoy!
