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Fremantle Port Quiz
1. There is a building on Victoria Quay with a sign on it reading THE OLD POLICE STATION, VICTORIA QUAY. What was its function before it was a police station?
2. Speaking of Victoria Quay, who ceremonially gave it this name in 1901? (It used to be just the "South Wharf".)
3. The Harbour Trust office was built on Arthur Head. O'Connor used it as his headquarters during the building of the port. It was then moved to where the FPA building (the big one) is now. How was it moved?
4. The Fremantle Port Authority building was built in 1963 and the Passenger Terminal completed in 1962. Both contain large major works by a Western Australian artist. Who?
5. There are three slipways on the South Wharf. What is on the biggest one?
6. There are two 'Boom Defence' buildings on Victoria Quay and a 'Boom Defence' jetty at the western end of the river mouth. What was the boom?
7. Where is Dago Bay?
8. Who died as an outcome from 'Bloody Sunday', 4 May 1919?
9. Who created the large statue of C.Y. O'Connor which is now standing in front of Fremantle Ports' building? (And who created a statue of him - the first sculptor?)
10. What is the apparatus standing on the extreme western end of Victoria Quay? It has a solar panel for power.
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