Australian election quiz: what can you remember about the campaign?

A composite showing Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten, among others who’ve featured in the Australian general election campaign in 2016. Composite: Guardian

1. In the first leaders’ debate, Malcolm Turnbull said we should thank God for a particular group of workers. Which one?

   1. The tradies

   2. The chippies

   3. The sparkies

   4. The firies

2. Where did Bill Shorten say was “the heart of Australia”?

   1. Alice Springs

   2. Outback Queensland

   3. Moonee Ponds

   4. Western Sydney

3. On Kitchen Cabinet, who did Jacqui Lambie say was “born with a silver spoon up his rear end”?

   1. Cory Bernardi

   2. Christopher Pyne

   3. Malcolm Turnbull

   4. Clive Palmer

4. 

   Barnaby Joyce said: “You can’t say to anybody, 'If I go to the market, I don’t know whether I am going to get a Holden or a horse or a camel or a house or a swimming pool.'” What was he talking about?

   1. The battle for Indi

   2. Tony Windsor’s decision to stand in New England

   3. The prospect of the Greens holding the balance of power

   4. Literally going to the market

5. Scott Morrison accused Labor of conducting a war on many things. Which one of these was on his list?

   1. Small business owners

   2. Mums and dads

   3. Ordinary Australians

   4. Christians

6. What reason did voter Margo Carey give for enthusiastically kissing Bill Shorten in Adelaide?

   1. He was the best-looking candidate she’d seen that day

   2. She was bowled over by his arguments on superannuation retrospectivity

   3. She was an attention-seeker

   4. He looked like he needed a hug

7. Who lost a high-profile staffer during the campaign, despite admitting the departing person was “quite good at social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter”.

   1. David Feeney

   2. David Leyonhjelm

   3. Nick Xenophon

   4. Jamie Briggs

8. 

   Who said of the campaign: "I don't want it to end. It's the best time of my life"?

   1. Journalist Laura Tingle (pictured)

   2. Cathy McGowan

   3. David Feeney

   4. Christopher Pyne

9. Complete Malcolm Turnbull’s parting sentence after a campaign stop in Melbourne: “Fathers rock, mothers are great, _______ are great, girls can do anything”

   1. Grandparents

   2. Nurses

   3. Engineers

   4. Boys

10. On a different campaign stop, Turnbull expanded that vision and insisted Australians could “do anything”. What example did he give?

    1. They could marry whoever they liked

    2. They could sell mattresses to China

    3. They could overcome 200 years of racial injustice

    4. They could save the Great Barrier Reef

11. What did the Food Safety Information Council warn was a health threat to candidates?

    1. Sausage sizzles

    2. Shaking hands

    3. Kissing babies

    4. Patting dogs

12. The LNP candidate for the Queensland seat of Lilley, David Kingston, said on his travel blog he had learnt an early lesson about the roles of men and women in society. Who or what did he learn it from?

    1. His inability to iron

    2. Flo Bjelke-Petersen

    3. His and hers towels in his parents’ bathroom

    4. God

13. 

    “Terrifying” and “kind of weird”. Who or what was Christopher Pyne talking about?

    1. Trying out “augmented reality” equipment at Saab in Adelaide (pictured)

    2. Candidates for the Nick Xenophon team in South Australia

    3. The prospect of the Greens supporting a minority Labor government

    4. Donald Trump

14. Several candidates came into conflict with the Australian Defence Force over the use of election material showing them in uniform. Which one of these agreed to take down their billboards?

    1. Mike Kelly, Labor candidate for Eden-Monaro

    2. Andrew Hastie, Liberal candidate for Canning

    3. Jacqui Lambie, Senate candidate in Tasmania

    4. Pat O’Neill, Labor candidate for Brisbane

15. When Tony Burke sparred with Mathias Cormann at the National Press Club, he said moments of the debate had been like having an argument with a fictional character. Who?

    1. Siri from Apple’s iPhone

    2. Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It

    3. Selina Meyer from Veep

    4. Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes

16. Malcolm Turnbull met numerous animals on the campaign trail. Which one of these was named Lagotto Brando?

    1. 

       At Nambour, Queensland

    2. 

       In Eden, on the NSW south coast

    3. 

       Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills

    4. 

       Rockhampton, Queensland

17. Which independent candidate said they would sign up as an Uber driver so that they could talk to voters and serve them kebabs in the early hours?

    1. Rob Oakeshott in Cowper

    2. Cathy McGowan in Indi

    3. James Mathison in Warringah

    4. Tony Windsor in New England

18. Which candidate said people in his electorate were “rapt to have a man to vote for”?

    1. Marty Corboy, National party candidate for Indi

    2. Jason Falinski, Bronwyn Bishop’s replacement as Liberal candidate in Mackellar

    3. David Archibald of the Australian Liberty Alliance, standing against Julie Bishop in Curtin

    4. Bob Katter, independent in Kennedy

19. Who did Victorian Bill Shorten back to win the first State of Origin game?

    1. New South Wales

    2. Queensland

    3. Melbourne Storm

    4. He simply hoped the better team on the night would win

20. Lots of candidates struggled with superannuation. Who explained the detail of their party’s policy in a radio interview by saying: “Sorry … what?”

    1. Julie Bishop

    2. David Feeney

    3. Sarah Hanson-Young

    4. Josh Frydenberg

21. 

    How much did Bill Shorten pay to buy his wife Chloe half a dozen orange Colombian roses in Brisbane, according to the Australian?

    1. $65.50

    2. $52 plus GST

    3. $43.80

    4. “Less than a packet of cigarettes would cost under Labor’s increased tobacco tax”

22. Several would-be candidates fell by the wayside during the campaign. Which one departed saying they did not need to be a “sacrificial lamb, travelling a number of steep inclines that have yet to be fixed”?

    1. Labor’s Chris Brown in Fremantle

    2. Liberal Sherry Sufi in Fremantle

    3. Liberal Carolyn Currie in Whitlam

    4. Nova Peris, Labor Senate candidate in the NT

23. Barnaby Joyce announced that public servants working for the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority would be moving from Canberra to “a beautiful, vibrant, excited, cultivated and well established city”. Which one?

    1. Armidale

    2. Tamworth

    3. Lismore

    4. Coffs Harbour

24. Who did Christopher Pyne compare himself to when talking about his bid to regain the seat of Sturt?

    1. Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    2. Harry Lime in The Third Man

    3. Henry VIII’s sixth wife

    4. Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth husband

25. Scott Morrison said of Labor’s plans: “That’s not voodoo economics, it’s ______”?

    1. Zoo economics

    2. Zorro economics

    3. Zootopia economics

    4. Zoolander economics

26. 

    How long did #faketradie/#realtradie say we should stick with “the current mob” for?

    1. Until they’d finished the job

    2. A while

    3. At least until the next smoko

    4. Until the unions were off the workers’ backs

27. Facebook posts complaining about a fast food chain led to accusations that the Liberal candidate for McEwen, Chris Jermyn, had enrolled to vote at a non-existent address. Which chain?

    1. Domino's

    2. Hungry Jack's

    3. McDonald's

    4. Subway

28. Barnaby Joyce (yes, again) said of Labor’s NBN plan that the party might as well offer every town in Australia a copy of a well-known global landmark. Which one?

    1. The statue of Liberty

    2. Buckingham Palace

    3. The Taj Mahal

    4. The Eiffel Tower

29. What did Malcolm Turnbull say he was “taking careful note of” on the campaign trail?

    1. The names of journalists who had written inaccurate stories about him

    2. The names of all the girls he met

    3. The names of Labor candidates who opposed the party’s asylum policy

    4. The names of towns he had never visited before

30. What did Tony Abbott say had “involved a very, very big change”?

    1. His home life since being overthrown by Malcolm Turnbull

    2. The creation of the internet

    3. The arrival of Europeans in Australia in 1788

    4. The demise of the car industry in South Australia

Solutions

1:C - In response to a question about electricity privatisation in NSW , 2:D - It "shares common values" with Labor, he said, 3:A, 4:A, 5:B - Also "growth" and "capital", among others, 6:C, 7:B - The Liberal Democrat senator lamented the resignation of Helen Dale (formerly known as Demidenko) since she was "an excellent writer and a reliable copy-editor" and he was "surrounded by staff who can’t punctuate and who put capital letters in the wrong places"., 8:D - Reasons unclear, 9:C, 10:B, 11:B - Chairwoman Rachelle Williams advised candidates to wash their hands regularly to avoid the risk of catching Norovirus, 12:C - "From that I realised there were things designed for men and others designed for women," he reasoned., 13:D - Pyne told Channel Seven the Republicans would find themselves in the wilderness for a long time if they chose Trump. Yet still they ignored his warning, 14:D, 15:A, 16:B, 17:C - "If that means I’m out at 4am, outside the Steyne [in Manly], outside the Boatshed, I’ll be there," Mathison pledged, 18:A - In his defence, Corboy said it "without sounding sexist", 19:C - The Labor leader tweeted his apologies to Storm (and Queensland) captain Cameron Smith for getting the two understandably confused, 20:C - The Greens senator received a text from her campaign manager during the live radio interview that cleared everything up. Sort of, 21:A, 22:C - Currie lamented that she was “like a general with no troops”, 23:A, 24:D - Pyne said: "I know what needs to be done, I've just got to try and keep it interesting", 25:D - Because that's how young people relate to politics, 26:B, 27:A - "Instead, I sit here hungry," Jermyn wrote about his unhappiness with the Prahran branch's opening hours, 28:D, 29:B - The PM said he was scouting for names for his new granddaughter, 30:C - The former PM was not quite ready to call it an "invasion", but said he might go as far as "occupation"

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   In case you missed it: Coalition = jobs and growth, Labor = Medicare

2. 2 and above.

   In case you missed it: Coalition = jobs and growth, Labor = Medicare

3. 3 and above.

   In case you missed it: Coalition = jobs and growth, Labor = Medicare

4. 4 and above.

   In case you missed it: Coalition = jobs and growth, Labor = Medicare

5. 5 and above.

   Not great. Don't forget to vote

6. 6 and above.

   Not great. Don't forget to vote

7. 7 and above.

   Not great. Don't forget to vote

8. 8 and above.

   Not great. Don't forget to vote

9. 9 and above.

   Not great. Don't forget to vote

10. 20 and above.

    Diligent work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

11. 19 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

12. 18 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

13. 17 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

14. 16 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

15. 15 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

16. 14 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

17. 13 and above.

    Fair effort. It seems you also have a life

18. 12 and above.

    Not great. Don't forget to vote

19. 25 and above.

    Impressive work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

20. 24 and above.

    Impressive work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

21. 23 and above.

    Impressive work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

22. 22 and above.

    Impressive work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

23. 21 and above.

    Impressive work. You probably already know how to vote in the Senate

24. 26 and above.

    Outstanding campaign. No need for preferences

25. 29 and above.

    Outstanding campaign. No need for preferences

26. 30 and above.

    Outstanding campaign. No need for preferences

27. 28 and above.

    Outstanding campaign. No need for preferences

28. 27 and above.

    Outstanding campaign. No need for preferences

29. 11 and above.

    Not great. Don't forget to vote

30. 0 and above.

    In case you missed it: Coalition = jobs and growth, Labor = Medicare

31. 10 and above.

    Not great. Don't forget to vote