Are You Smarter Than An Aussie 5th Grader? Quiz

This one's a no-brainier if you've ever seen a map.

Red and blue are primary colors, and when they are mixed together, they create the secondary color purple. The exact shade of purple can vary depending on the specific shades of red and blue used and their proportions.

The first fleet to Australia was captained by Captain Arthur Phillip. He was a Royal Navy officer and the appointed leader of the expedition that established the first British settlement in Australia. The fleet arrived at Botany Bay, New South Wales, on January 18, 1788, marking the beginning of European colonization in Australia. 

Cook sailed into what would be later known as Sydney Harbour, but it was a marshland, so he sailed around to Botany Bay and disembarked, which he named after the range of unique botany specimens found by botanist Joseph Banks. Cape York is the north-most point of Australia and Port Augusta is a port town in South Australia.

Australia's Christmas holidays are also our summer holidays and go from late December to early February. Boo-yeah!

Papua New Guinea is about 150 km away from Queensland's Cape York. This is a tricky question because Indonesia and New Zealand aren't too much farther. Paul Robinson is a character from the Australian soap Neighbours.

While kangaroos, koalas, and wombats are all marsupials (mammals that carry their young in a pouch), the platypus is a monotreme. Monotremes are primitive mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. The platypus is one of only five extant monotreme species, and it's unique for its duck-billed appearance and venomous spurs.

The six states of Australia are New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania. In addition to these states, Australia also has two major mainland territories: the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the Northern Territory. However, these territories do not have the same level of sovereignty as the states.

The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef system in the world, stretching over 2,300 kilometers along the northeastern coast of Australia, in the Coral Sea. It is not located off the western coast, nor is it composed of volcanic rock formations; instead, it is made up of thousands of individual coral reefs and islands. Additionally, it is situated in the Coral Sea, not the Tasman Sea.

An octagonal prism consists of two parallel octagonal bases and eight rectangular faces connecting the corresponding sides of the octagons. The total number of faces is calculated by adding the 2 octagonal bases and the 8 rectangular lateral faces, resulting in 10 faces.