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Keeping the peace quiz: Answer sheet

1. When and where did the first Australian peacekeepers serve?
   1947, Indonesia (or Batavia)

2. Name one place where Australian peacekeepers are still serving?
   East Timor, Solomons - too topical a question?

3. Name two Australians who have commanded peacekeeping operations?
   Nimmo, Sanderson, Cosgrove

4. Who was the longest serving Australian peacekeeper?
   Lieutenant General R.H. Nimmo

5. Australian peacekeepers have, on different operations, worn hats of three different colours. What are the colours?
   Terracotta (or red, or orange etc.), Blue and Yellow

6. Name two countries in Africa where Australian peacekeepers have served.
   Namibia, Somalia, Rwanda, Western Sahara, Uganda, Sierra Leone

7. Name two countries in Asia where Australian peacekeepers have served.
   India, Pakistan, Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia

8. Name two countries in the Middle East where Australian peacekeepers have served.
   Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sinai

9. Name two Royal Australian Navy ships that have served in peacekeeping operations.
   Sydney, Adelaide, Darwin, Tobruk, Jervis Bay - must be more

10. Name two places the RAAF has served on peacekeeping missions.
    East Timor, Kashmir, Sinai

11. Name two places the Australian Federal Police have served as peacekeepers?
    Cyprus, Cambodia, East Timor, Bougainville, Solomons

12. The following are all UN operations Australian peacekeeps have been involved in.
    What do they stand for:
    UNMCTTI - United Nations Mine Clearance Training Team
    UNOSOM - United Nations Opertaions in Somalia
    SPPKF - South Pacific Peace-keeping Force

13. What organisation was the UN's predecessor?
    League of Nations

14. What Australian was a key figure in the establishment of the UN.
    Dr H. V. Evatt

15. What have been the two biggest Australian peacekeeping involvenments.
    Korea and Iraq

16. Who first reported the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
    Australian military observers attached to the UN Commission on Korea

17. What Australian headed UNSCOM and what was its job?
    Richard Butler.
    Inspecting and supervising Iraq's destruction for maunufacturing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

18. Name two countries where Australians electoral officers have been sent.
    Namibia and Cambodia

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