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Last night at our club quiz there was a doubt over some answers.
1. Which is the biggest island in the world? Several of us said Greenland, but were told that it was Australia.
2. What was the first proper bicycle known as? Again, several of us said "Boneshaker", but were told that it was the Penny Farthing. We thought that the Penny Farthing was much later in bicycle history terms?
Can any of you help please? It didn't affect the outcome luckily!
Thanks
carolegif
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The answer to Munden's dilemma is that "Australasia" is not a continent but a region of Oceania encompassing Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined in 1756 by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes from the Latin for "south of Asia" to differentiate it from Polynesia (to the east), the southeast Pacific (Magellanica) and Micronesia (to the northeast).