Anzac Day Quiz

1. What is the origin of the acronym ANZAC?
2. Where is the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier?
3. Who was Kemal Ataturk?
4. Where is Gallipoli?
5. When did the first ANZACs land at ANZAC Cover?
6. Who was the “man with the donkey”?
7. When is the Australian Flag flown at half-mast?
8. What is Bully Beef?
9. When did the ANZACs leave Gallipoli?
10. What were some of the names Simpson gave to his donkeys?
11. In which country did the Australians do their training before embarking on the shops that transported them to Gallipoli?
12. Why do organisations like the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland and the Returned & Services League of Australia believe that ANZAC should always be written in upper case letters?

Answers

1. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
2. In the Hall of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial
3. Kemal Ataturk was the Commander of the Turkish 19th Division during the Gallipoli Campaign and the first President of the Turkish Republic from 1924 – 1938.
4. Gallipoli s a peninsula of land in western Turkey separating the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles
5. 4.28am on Sunday 25th April 1915
6. John Simpson Kirkpatrick.  Better known to Australians as Jack Simpson.
7. Flags are flown at half-mast on ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day and as a sing of mourning
8. Bully Beef is the name of a canned meat given to soldiers in the field.  In WW1 the ANZACs filled the empty cans with nails
9. 20 December 1915
10. Murphy, Abdul and even Queen Elizabeth but his favourite name was Duffy.
11. Egypt
12. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. If Australia is entitled to a capital A then surely New Zealand should be written NZ. The two countries share the ANZAC legend so should be acknowledged equally.