Accreditation: past paper

Part B (1998 paper)

Note: Part B is common to all levels of accreditation.

(a) Ten parliamentary questions

1. In which house does the Governor-General speak at the opening of a new parliament in Canberra?

2. What is a backbencher?

3. When a bill is read a first time, a second time or a third time, who reads it?

4. Which Australian prime minister voted himself out of office?

5. Which state premier lost office following a by-election in the seat of Mundingburra?

6. Which former senator is now a state premier?

7. Which senator holds the balance of power in the Senate?

8. Who sacked John Pasquarelli as her adviser?

9. What is the upper house in Western Australia called?

10. Which state/territory has a Hare-Clark voting system?

(b) Ten legal knowledge questions

1. Robert Bellear was the first Australian what?

2. Explain the presumption of innocence.

3. What is canon law?

4. What is the name given to the program of formal counselling involving the victim of a criminal offence and the offender?

5. What is the name given to a judicial order requiring a person or persons not to do a certain thing?

6. In what circumstances can a witness be cross-examined by the counsel who called him?

7. What name is given to the enticement of a person into comitting a crime in order to prosecute him?

8. What does it mean to be caught flagrante delicto?

9. What is the standard of proof in a civil trial?

10. What is the name given to a person who brings an action in a court on behalf of a minor or a person of unsound mind?

(c) Forty general knowledge questions

1. What name is given to the total annual value of all goods and services produced in Australia?

2. What would you be drinking if you were drinking Earl Grey?

3. Which organisation is known as the PLO?

4. Who is the Secretary-General of the United Nations?

5. What do you worry about if you are a hypochondriac?

6. Who first said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"?

7. What do the initials PAYE stand for?

8. Which metal is made from bauxite?

9. Which British politician was nicknamed the Iron Lady?

10. Which painter had a "blue period"?

11. Which scientist first formulated the important equation E = mc2?

12. Which member of the royal family was born in Greece?

13. Who composed the music for Phantom of the Opera?

14. What do you call half a sphere?

15. What does a German mean when he says, "Danke schön"?

16. How many times does a tangent touch a circle?

17. Where in your body is there an anvil, a hammer and a stirrup?

18. By what name was Uluru formerly known?

19. Intimidatory driving of a motor vehicle is more commonly known by what name?

20. Whose law says that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion?

21. By what name was the Chinese city of Beijing known in the west?

22. What is the capital of Iraq?

23. What sort of worldwide epidemic killed about 20 million people immediately after the First World War?

24. What was the name of the company associated with the mercenary affair in Papua New Guinea during 1997?

25. Which international organisation seeks to help prisoners of conscience?

26. Which Roman Catholic nun was famous for her work among the poor of Calcutta?

27. In noise regulations, what does the symbol dB stand for?

28. Cyrano de Bergerac is best remembered for his sword fighting and what else?

29. Complete the following quote: "Caesar’s wife must be above. . . ."

30. Which federal shadow minister lost his portfolio in 1995 over the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair?

31. In which US city did a truck bomb explode on 19 April 1995, destroying a federal government building and killing 167 people?

32. What is the name of the film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott?

33. What Australian swimmer returned a positive drug test after her coach gave her a "headache pill"?

34. Dr Philip Nitschke was the doctor of the first person to do what?

35. Which spiritual leader did Prime Minister Howard meet in his Sydney office in September 1997?

36. In what case did the High Court hold that native title can co-exist with pastoral leases?

37. Australia’s low immunisation rates are cited as one of the main reasons for the size of an epidemic of what infectious disease affecting young children?

38. The climatic event involving a rapid warming of the surface of the southern Pacific Ocean and affecting rainfall on the eastern coast of Australia is known by what name?

39. What is the unit of currency in Indonesia?

40. Who is the deputy prime minister of New Zealand?

(d) Forty English knowledge questions

1. What class of nouns take an initial capital letter?

2. What name is given to a word that joins two clauses in a sentence?

3. Give an example of a split infinitive?

4. What does the prefix arthro- mean in words such as arthritis and arthroscopy?

5. What does the suffix -oma mean in words such as carcinoma and melanoma?

6. According to the proverb, what happens to a fool and his money?

7. To rest on your laurels is (a) to bide your time and wait for developments (b) to be satisfied with your achievements (c) to remain neutral (d) to postpone making important decisions?

8. To keep the wolf from the door is to avoid (a) blame (b) loneliness (c) unwanted visitors (d) starvation?

9. Write two sentences that demonstrate the difference between a direct question and an indirect question.

10–14 Using only punctuation, change the meaning of the following sentences.

(a) We expect several of our players to resign within the next few weeks.

(b) He expressed his gratitude to his parents, Bill and Joan.

(c) Although they fulfil this aim to some extent, they have the opposite effect.

(d) The dancers in the show wore black and white leotards.

15 The following sentence is an example of what figure of speech?

The opposition was on a fishing expedition but its questions bore fruit.

16. To purloin is (a) to hire (b) to steal (c) to dispose of (d) to horde (e) to modify?

17. To prorogue is (a) to discontinue a session of (b) to go to an election (c) to form a new parliament (d) to take a vote of members (e) to overrule?

18. A reticent witness would be one who was (a) hostile (b) cooperative (c) uncooperative (d) friendly (e) disposed to be silent?

19. Anarchy is (a) tyranny (b) conformity (c) indifference (d) lawlessness (e) maladministration?

20. A faux pas is (a) a misdemeanour (b) a major error of judgment (c) a petty crime (d) an embarrassing blunder (e) a mistaken belief?

21–30. Correct the misspelt or misused words in the following sentences.

(a) If we accept the old sore about people being out best resource, building espirit de corps should be a fundamental tennant of managment style.

(b) The case sited demonstrates that these people can commit crimes with immunity.

(c) We are loathe to complain, but we have been declined the opportunity to put our case forcibly.

(d) According to the intelligencia, we can come to that bridge when we cross it.

31-34. Correct the errors in grammar and logic in the following sentences.

(a) Alert to this risk, the concern of the committee is to evaluate the existing rules.

(b) We have not and will not make an assumption of guilt in this case.

(c) There are public hospitals that regularly close at 5 o’clock every evening.

(d) If we agree to this, it will leave the way open for leaseholders to put the chainsaw into trees that provide nesting places for our flora and fauna.

35–40 Correct the misspelt words in the following list:

(a) rappore (harmonious relationship)

(b) domecillary (pertaining to place of residence)

(c) forego (to give up or do without)

(d) superceed (to replace)

(e) bachelor (unmarried man)

(f) murmer (to speak in an undertone)

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