#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Sun 7 Dec 2025

I’ve made a decision to surrender the tag #QuollFishing and play a different game. While I appreciate the rules — and challenge — of fishing for wikipedia articles, i’ve also enjoyed the resulting conversations about australia, and would prefer to focus on generating more of that.
Hopefully, with a different style of clues there might be more interest…

From tomorrow, i will be offering questions only with the tag #SerenityInOz, in honour of Darryl Kerrigan, who liked to say “how’s the serenity”

Also, anyone is welcome to participate by generating their own questions — if you use the tag #SerenityInOz in the body of your toot, i will find you. A date would probably be helpful.

give yourself 1 bonus point if you know where Darryl Kerrigan is from

(Please CW your answers)

Today’s main challenge — What’s my name?

I am a novel by David Malouf, published in 1993

I won the inaugural International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award.

I am set in Queensland, in the mid 1800s

I explore themes of place, and belonging, from multiple points of view

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Sat 6 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

1878 establishments in Australia; 1985 disestablishments in Australia; Forts in Australia; Former military installations in Victoria (state); Mornington Peninsula; Port Phillip; Tourist attractions in Victoria (state); Military installations established in 1873

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Fri 5 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

Towns in South Australia; Far North (South Australia); Mining towns in South Australia; Underground cities

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Thu 4 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

Categories: 1986 films; 1980s heist films; Australian crime comedy films; 1980s crime comedy films; Films directed by Nadia Tass; Films set in Melbourne; Films shot in Melbourne; Australian heist films; Rail transport films; Vestron Pictures films; 1986 directorial debut films; 1986 comedy films; Films about autism; Best Film AACTA Award winners

———-

?Rail transport? —- “Light Rail” maybe, or “street rail”?

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Wed 3 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

1923 births; 2016 deaths; Australian art collectors; Australian autobiographers; Australian expatriates in Bermuda; Australian Army soldiers; Australian Army personnel of World War II; Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire; Australian television personalities; Australian television producers; Australian photographers; Companions of the Order of Australia; International Emmy Founders Award winners; Logie Award winners; Australian nature photographers; Businesspeople from Sydney; University of Queensland alumni; Australian radio company founders; Longford Lyell Award recipients
——
i would never guess what the article is from these categories

would it help if i said he was the first man to sell an australian TV drama in the United States?

and if you’d like an australian-type clue:

“if it were not for this man, we would all be walking around with bare bottoms”

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Tues 2 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

Categories: Queensland Heritage Register; Shire of Bulloo; Individual trees in Queensland; Burke and Wills expedition; Individual eucalypts

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Mon 1 Dec 2025 Bonus Challenge

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

1967 Australian television series debuts; 1977 Australian television series endings; Australian television soap operas; Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming; Television shows set in Victoria (state); Black-and-white Australian television shows; Australian English-language television shows;Works by Barbara Vernon; Works by Alan Hopgood

@maudenificent @futzle

#QuollFishing—a quiz about Australian stuff—Mon 1 Dec 2025

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories

(Please CW your answer)

1994 films; 1994 comedy-drama films; 1994 directorial debut films; 1994 independent films; 1990s Australian films; 1990s buddy comedy-drama films; 1990s English-language films; 1990s female buddy films; 1990s French films; Australian buddy comedy films; Australian comedy-drama films; Australian independent films; Ciby 2000 films; English-language buddy comedy-drama films; English-language French films; English-language independent films; Films about adultery; Films about dysfunctional families; Films about weddings; Films directed by P. J. Hogan; Films scored by Peter Best (composer); Films set in New South Wales; Films set in Sydney; Films shot in Queensland; Films shot in Sydney; Films shot on the Gold Coast, Queensland; French buddy comedy-drama films; French female buddy films; French independent films; Miramax films; Roadshow Entertainment films; Best Film AACTA Award winners