Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of Australian music? Test your knowledge of the music that has shaped the Australian music scene through the decades with this quiz!
1. Which song by Eric Bogle is a sad lament to the battle of Gallipoli?
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Green Fields of France
No Man's Land
Shelter
2. Which band is known for the 1983 anti-war protest song 'I Was Only Nineteen'?
The Bushwackers
Redgum
Yothu Yindi
No Fixed Address
3. Who pioneered an Americanized form of Australian country music in the 1930s?
Reg Lindsay
Tex Morton
Buddy Williams
Johnny Ashcroft
4. What instrument is iconic in Indigenous Australian music?
Guitar
Didgeridoo
Banjo
Piano
5. Who is known as 'one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise' according to David Fricke from Rolling Stone?
Archie Roach
Paul Kelly
Jimmy Little
Olivia Newton-John
6. Which Australian indigenous folk rock band is known for the song 'Treaty'?
Wild Water
Warumpi Band
Yothu Yindi
Christine Anu
7. Who is the most successful Australian bush band, active since the early 1970s?
Bushwackers
Redgum
Warumpi Band
The Necks
8. Which Australian artist is remembered for the 1957 song 'A Pub With No Beer'?
Slim Dusty
Tex Morton
Smoky Dawson
Reg Lindsay
9. Which Aboriginal performer had a No.1 hit with 'Royal Telephone' in 1963?
Jimmy Little
Archie Roach
Kev Carmody
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
10. Which genre encompasses artists like The Catholics and the Australian Art Orchestra, known for eclectic style fusions?
