Two answers required. In these two cities, Gerard Krefft curated Darwinist exhibits to advance the “new museum idea.” Masons’ strikes in these cities won the first eight-hour workday. 10 percent of flights between these two cities are canceled by “slot hoarding.” Teetotalers (“tee-totalers”) stayed at “coffee palaces” in these two cities for rival expos at the Garden Palace and Royal Exhibition Building. The potato farmer Cliff Young won Westfield’s ultramarathon between these two cities, which host the two oldest “verdant universities” and “sandstone universities.” The crime show Underbelly featured both of these cities’ “gangland wars.” “Magic” coffee in one of these cities led Auckland or the other to create the flat white. These two cities respectively founded the AFL and National Rugby League and hosted the 1956 and 2000 Olympics. For 10 points, name these largest cities in Australia. ■END■
ANSWER: Melbourne AND Sydney [accept answers in either order; accept Narrm, Port Phillip, Melburnians, or University of Melbourne in place of “Melbourne”; accept Port Jackson, Sydneysiders, University of Sydney, or Sydney Uni in place of “Sydney”] (La Trobe and Macquarie are the oldest verdant universities.)
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