1.B
2.b
3.c
4.d
5.a
6.d
7.b
8.b
9.c
10.a

1)d
2)c
3)d
4)d
5)b
6)b
7)a
8)c
9)b
10)a

KIWI KWIZ 2009

Question One: During his recent visit to New York, the Prime Minister.. ?
b) gave a speech at the United Nations and rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange

Question Two: What caused the tsunami that struck Samoa and Tonga on the 30th of September?
c) A massive earthquake in the South Pacific

Question Three: In ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, which line follows ‘Fee-fi-fo-fum’?
d) ‘I smell the blood of an Englishman’

Question Four: What present did the makers of The Simpson Movie give the South Island town of Springfield?
c) A giant pink doughnut

Question Five: In a recent poll, who was surprisingly voted the ‘greatest living New Zealander’?a) Sir Edmund Hillary

Question Six: What do the New Zealand ‘All Whites’ have to do to qualify for the 2010 Football World Cup?
c) Defeat Bahrain in Wellington

Question Seven: Which name comes next in the sequence 'Edward, George, Edward, George..?
d) Elizabeth'

Question Eight: After an eighty year absence, Winnie the Pooh is back in a new book. The title of the book is..?
c) Return to the Hundred Acre Wood


Question Nine: Which of the following claims is false?
a) Dust mites can live for one year without food
b) A female dust mite can lay up to 300 eggs
c) Dust mites eat dead skin cells from humans
d) Dust mites can measure ten centimetres in length

Question Ten: What was the winning score at the 2009 World Hamburger Eating Championship?
a) Two Big Macs and three Whopper burgers eaten in one minute
b) 93 hamburgers consumed in eight minutes

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SPELLING WORDS

1. Tongariro
2.Ngarurehoe
3.Volcano
4.Turangi
5.Whakapapa
6.Ruapehu
7.Wonder
8.Skiing
9.Snowboarding
10.Mountain

KIWI KWIZ 2009

WEEK 12

Question One: What did Tom Ah Chee open in South Auckland in 1958?

a) New Zealand’s first movie theatre

b) New Zealand’s first supermarket

c) New Zealand’s first Chinese restaurant

d) New Zealand’s first internet cafe

Question Two: Why were schools across Mexico closed last week?

a) The teachers were on strike for better pay

b) A series of earthquakes rocked Mexico City

c) Swine flu is sweeping the country

d) Most children of school age have full-time jobs

Question Three: Under New Zealand law, the only people allowed to get a tattoo with a Maori design are..?

a) Maori

b) New Zealand citizens

c) people over sixteen years of age

d) people who have lived in New Zealand for ten years and learnt to speak Te Reo Maori

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘A picture is worth..?

a) a lifetime of make-believe’

b) fifteen minutes of fame’

c) a summer of songs’

d) a thousand words’

Question Five: Which bird swims the fastest?

a) The Penguin

b) The Black Swan

c) The Trout

d) The Pelican

Question Six: Dr Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk when he..?

a) fell into a cauldron of magic potion

b) was bitten by a radioactive spider

c) was struck by lightning on top of the Empire State Building

d) was exposed to radiation from a gamma bomb test

Question Seven: A city that has more than ten million people is called a..?

a) megacity

b) monstros-i-city

c) global city

d) city-city

Question Eight: What does an omnivore eat?

a) Anything

b) Anything that moves

c) Plants and animals

d) Nothing

Question Nine: As Jack was going to Wellington, he met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven cats, and each cat had seven kittens. So how many living creatures were going to Wellington?

a) 400

b) 401

c) None

d) One

Question Ten: One out of every three people in the world is..?

a) living in China

b) a Christian

c) surfing the internet right now

d) in jail

kiwi kwiz 2009 week 11

kiwi kwiz 2009 week 11

Question One: Why did a Canadian tourist complain about New Zealand’s Eskimo lollies last week?
a) She found maggots in her packet of Eskimos
b) The lollies broke her two front teeth
c) The term ‘Eskimo’ is considered racist in Canada
ad) She thought the marshmallow lollies contained alcohol

Question Two: What is the official name for the South Island?
a) The South Island
b) The Southern Island
c) Te Wai Pounamu
d) There is no official name for the South Island

Question Three: Who is buried at the National War Memorial in Wellington?
a) Lieutenant Colonel William Malone
b) Captain Charles Upham
c) New Zealand’s first four Prime Ministers
d) An unknown New Zealand soldier from World War One

Question Four: Scotland’s Susan Boyle has become a celebrity after appearing on which television show?
a) UK Idol
b) Miss Scotland
c) Britain’s Got Talent
d) Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Question Five: Why did gladiators in the Roman Empire eat onions?
a) They thought onions made them invisible
b) They thought lions would be repelled by the smell
c) They thought onions gave them super-human strength
d) They thought the God of the Onions would save them

Question Six: Where did the Phantom of the Opera live?
a) In the giant organ at the Paris Opera House
b) In the ticket booth at the Paris Opera House
c) In the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House
d) In the abandoned warehouse above the Paris Opera House

Question Seven: New Zealand scientists have invented an apple that..?
a) doesn’t go brown when it is cut
b) grows back when you take a bite
c) is the size of a netball
d) tastes like white chocolate

Question Eight: Auckland’s new super-city will include..?
a) Auckland, Waitakere, North Shore and Hamilton
b) Auckland, Papakura, Coromandel and Rodney
c) Auckland, North Shore, Manukau and Waitakere
d) Auckland, Rodney, Whangarei and North Shore

Question Nine: If you’re ‘riding shotgun’ in a car, where are you sitting?
a) in the driver’s seat
b) in the front passenger’s seat
c) in the boot
d) in the back seat

Question Ten: In which musical movie does an Australian schoolgirl date the leader of the T-Birds gang?
a) Grease
b) Underbelly
c) Hairspray
d) High School Musical