How many of these questions from 'Big Backyard Quiz' can you answer?

Put your knowledge to the test with 15 tricky questions from the upcoming season of 'Big Backyard Quiz'

Big Backyard Quiz hosts - 10 News First's Narelda Jacobs and comedian Steven Oliver on set in Perth. Credit: Rebecca Mansell

NITV and SBS Original Big Backyard Quiz (BBQ), is a cheeky new entertainment series hosted by 10 News First’s Narelda Jacobs OAM and comedian Steven Oliver, that challenges contestants to see who knows the most about the people and history of Australia from a Blak lens.

This season’s stellar line-up of comedians as contestants includes Meyne Wyatt (The Moogai, We Are Still Here), Shari Sebbens (The Moogai, Little J & Big Cuz), Matt Okine, Nina Oyama (Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey), Rhys Nicholson and Emma Holland, all in Episode 1.

Also featuring this season will be Ernie Dingo (Going Places with Ernie Dingo), Rove McManus, Tasma Walton, and Peter Rowsthorn.

To celebrate the brand new season of Big Backyard Quiz, we've provided some questions from the upcoming series, so that you can test your knowledge on First Nations history.

This is just a taste of the exciting, challenging and thought-provoking questions that Big Backyard Quiz will be cooking up across the series.

So, how well would you do on an episode of BBQ? And do you want sauce with that?

Here are 15 questions from BBQ, with answers at the end of the article:

1. Name Australia's first Indigenous animated children's series that also won a Logie Award.
2. Which contemporary Indigenous Australian artist started painting at 79 years old and went on to become one Australia’s most prolific artists?
3. Which proud Wiradjuri woman has won seven Grand Slam singles titles?
4. Where was the inaugural Koori Knock out hosted in 1971?
5. Which Torres Strait Islander chef honed her skills in Italian and Japanese restaurants for 20 years, before starting a condiment business?
6. In 2024, rapper Nooky - for his Blak Powerhouse event - famously served what Indigenous delicacy to a crowd of thousands?
7. In what year did NAIDOC become a week-long celebration?
8. Which Country music icon got his start playing in the band Little Eagle?
9. What year of Australian Idol did Jessica Mauboy compete in?
10. Which senator was the first Indigenous Australian to enter the Federal Parliament?
11. Faith Thomas was the first First Nations Australian woman to represent the country internationally in any sport, what was it?
12. What is the musical alias for Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard?
13. Which iconic First Nations musician co-wrote “From Little Things Big Things Grow” with Paul Kelly?
14. Who is the first First Nations Australian person to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games?
15. Which AFL player became the first First Nations person to kick 1000 goals?

Big Backyard Quiz on NITV and SBS On Demand. Co-hosts 10 News First's Narelda Jacobs and comedian Steven Oliver. Photo by Tace Stevens.

Here are the answers to the questions:

1. Little J & Big Cuz
2. Emily Kam Kngwarray
3. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
4. Camdenville Park in St Peters
5. Nornie Bero
6. Devon sandwiches
7. 1975
8. Troy Cassar Daley
9. 2006
10. Senator Neville Bonner AO
11. Cricket
12. The Kid Laroi
13. Kev Carmody
14. Cathy Freeman
15. Lance Franklin

Want to test your knowledge even further? Each and every episode of Big Backyard Quiz will feature new games, new questions and new guests.

Big Backyard Quiz premieres on Saturday 12 July at 7:30pm on NITV and SBS On Demand.

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