Clive Palmer's local knowledge isn't great A quiz on local knowledge has left Clive Palmer scratching his head. CLIVE Palmer has revealed 17 candidates who will contest this month's state election but the Palmer United Party leader has failed a Herald Sun quiz on iconic Melbourne trivia. Mr Palmer was in Melbourne yesterday to announce the 17 candidates who will contest seats in Victoria's Upper House. "I'm very lucky to be back at home in Victoria," Mr Palmer told a crowd of about 70 who gathered for the launch. I was born in the Footscray hospital, lived the first 10 years of my life in Williamstown ... I spent every Christmas up in Bairnsdale in Gippsland. Clive's answers to our quiz. But when the Herald Sun asked Mr Palmer 10 Victorian quiz questions, he struggled to get four right. The PUP leader, who now calls the Sunshine Coast home, struggled to identify a "Charlie" as the Brownlow Medal, thought the Penguin Parade was at Wilsons Prom and asked if a W-Class had something to do with tennis. For the record, it's a tram. In a media conference after his launch, Mr Palmer admitted he was not the best person to lead the party in Victoria. "I'm not the state leader in Victoria, I'm not a Victorian," he said. A Victorian party leader will be revealed next Sunday at an event with all of the federal PUP Senators, Mr Palmer said. Outspoken Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie would also attend, despite threatening to quit the party last week. When asked about Ms Lambie's threat, Mr Palmer said her possible resignation wouldn't make a difference to PUP's power. Well she can't split the party, the party's bigger than that. We hold the balance of power in Australia, one senator doesn't make much of a difference either way. Mr Palmer said he hadn't spoken to Ms Lambie but had received a text message from her. During yesterday's event, Mr Palmer announced one Victorian policy, to oppose the sale of the Port of Melbourne, which both Labor and the ­Coalition have promised to do. Other key policies would be announced on Sunday, including the party's preferred site for a new port, plans for the Latrobe Valley and its coal industry, job creation and education. Mr Palmer said his party had received three to four times the number of applications for possible candidate ­positions for this election. Twitter: @mlainsworth Originally published as What does Clive know about Victoria?