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Will you nail our Aussie inventions quiz or go back to the drawing board?

Will you nail our Aussie inventions quiz or go back to the drawing board?

Humans are an inventive bunch, constantly coming up with solutions to problems and working out ways to make life easier or better.

ABC Science will be focusing on Australia's inventiveness for National Science Week next year, so let us know if you can think of an ingenious invention that also happens to be Australian.

In the meantime, see if you nail this quiz or need to go back to the drawing board.

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