1 Who is the only person to have been awarded both the titles Australian of the Year and Young Australian of the Year? 2 Which Australian men's tennis player has won the most grand slam singles tournaments? 3 Who invented the inflatable aircraft slide that can be used as a life raft? 4 What is Australia's highest waterfall? 5 What type of rock is Uluru comprised of? 6 Which are the most eastern and western points of the Australian mainland? 7 Where and what is the name of Australia's and the world's biggest geoglyph (a figure or symbol cut into the earth)? 8 Where in Australia can you find the town of Humpty Doo? 9 What is the meaning of the Aboriginal name of South Australian opal mining town Coober Pedy? 10 Australia is home to the largest sand island on earth. Where is it?
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1 Cathy Freeman 2 Roy Emerson won 12 major single titles from 1961 to 1967. 3 A Qantas employee, Jack Grant, invented the slide in 1965. 4 The Wallaman Falls in north Queensland. 5 Sandstone. 6 The lighthouse at Cape Byron in the east, and Steep Point near Shark Bay in Western Australia. 7 The Marree Man in South Australia's town of Marree. The 4km-long image depicts a man who is holding something like a throwing stick or a boomerang. 8 In the Northern Territory, 47km from Brisbane. 9 White man down a hole. 10 Fraser Island off the Queensland coast, 200km north of Brisbane.