Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, October 26, 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
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
SPELLING WORDS
2.Ngarurehoe
3.Volcano
4.Turangi
5.Whakapapa
6.Ruapehu
7.Wonder
8.Skiing
9.Snowboarding
10.Mountain
Sunday, May 3, 2009
KIWI KWIZ 2009
WEEK 12
Question One: What did Tom Ah Chee open in
a)
b)
c)
d)
Question Two: Why were schools across
a) The teachers were on strike for better pay
b) A series of earthquakes rocked
c) Swine flu is sweeping the country
d) Most children of school age have full-time jobs
Question Three: Under
a) Maori
b)
c) people over sixteen years of age
d) people who have lived in
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
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
a) 400
b) 401
c) None
d) One
Question Ten: One out of every three people in the world is..?
a) living in
b) a Christian
c) surfing the internet right now
d) in jail
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
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
w33k 9 h0m3w0rk
WEEK 9
Question One: Which of the following events was not an April Fools’ Day joke?
a) In 1998, Burger King introduced the Left Handed Whopper
b) In 1999, a town in Taranaki elected a goat as its President
c) In 1972, zoologists found the body of the Loch Ness Monster
d) In 2008, the BBC filmed penguins flying over Antarctica
Question Two: What did people around the world do last Saturday night about climate change?
a) Flushed their toilets every ten minutes
b) Turned their lights off for one hour
c) Threw their televisions in the dump
d) Closed their airports and power stations
Question Three: In Shakespeare’s era, who acted the parts of women in his plays?
a) Boys
b) Girls
c) Shakespeare himself
d) Shakespeare didn’t write any parts for women
Question Four: Why do New Zealanders get an extra hour of sleep this Sunday?
a) The Government is introducing the nine-day working fortnight
b) The school holidays begin
c) Daylight saving ends
d) Sunday is International Sleep Day
Question Five: What is the ‘Golden Rule’?
a) Always look on the bright side of life
b) Keep a stiff upper lip at all times
c) If you don’t take an opportunity, someone else will
d) Do to others what you want them to do to you
Question Six: In netball, a ‘wing attack’ cannot..?
a) score goals
b) captain the team
c) intercept the ball
d) step in the centre third of the court
Question Seven: What is Helen Clark’s new job?
a) Leader of the Opposition
b) Head of the United Nations Development Program
c) Chief financial advisor to Barack Obama
d) Guest Judge on New Zealand’s Next Top Model
Question Eight: Why does the army refer to three o’clock in the afternoon as ‘1500 hours’?
a) So the enemy won’t know the time of the attack
b) So civilians will be impressed
c) So soldiers know when to have afternoon tea
d) So 3:00pm is not confused with 3:00am
Question Nine: Which controversial farming practise is set to resume in New Zealand?
a) Live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia
b) Battery-farmed kiwis
c) Genetically modified pigs
d) Catching horses for human consumption
Question Ten: What does the Japanese word ‘Karaoke’ mean in English?
a) Happy Singing Box
b) Empty Orchestra
c) No Shame
d) One Thousand Voices
Monday, March 30, 2009
week8 homework
monday, March 23, 2009
WEEK 8
Question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?
a) Enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb
b) A briefcase full of one hundred dollar bills
c) Ten poisonous snakes
d) A newborn baby
Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?
a) one thousand tubs of vegemite and six hundred loaves of bread
b) two years off school and a walk-on part in Shortland Street
c) the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries
d) a trip around the world and the opportunity to be Prime Minister of New Zealand for one day
Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?
a) Nelson
b) Dunedin
c) Wellington
d) New Plymouth
Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?
a) She is seventy two years old
b) She designs her own outfits
c) She is seven-feet tall
d) She is a robot
Question Five: Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?
a) spicy, fizzy, bitter and sour
b) hot, cold, bitter and sour
c) salty, sweet, bitter and sour
d) Eastern, Western, bitter and sour
Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?
a) An earthquake near Tonga
b) The fallout from the global recession
c) The collapse of an iceberg in Antarctica
d) A massive whale stranding near the Equator
Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?
a) Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
b) Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
c) The Oxford English Dictionary
d) The Wonderful World of Disney
Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?
a) should wear clothes’
b) should buy curtains’
c) shouldn’t complain about the weather’
d) shouldn’t throw stones’
Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?
a) Alexander the Great
b) George Washington
c) Donald Trump
d) Robert Mugabe
Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?
a) The Tuatara
b) The Kangaroo
c) The Takahe
d) The Weta
week8 homework
monday, March 23, 2009
WEEK 8
Question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?
a) Enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb
b) A briefcase full of one hundred dollar bills
c) Ten poisonous snakes
d) A newborn baby
Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?
a) one thousand tubs of vegemite and six hundred loaves of bread
b) two years off school and a walk-on part in Shortland Street
c) the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries
d) a trip around the world and the opportunity to be Prime Minister of New Zealand for one day
Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?
a) Nelson
b) Dunedin
c) Wellington
d) New Plymouth
Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?
a) She is seventy two years old
b) She designs her own outfits
c) She is seven-feet tall
d) She is a robot
Question Five: Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?
a) spicy, fizzy, bitter and sour
b) hot, cold, bitter and sour
c) salty, sweet, bitter and sour
d) Eastern, Western, bitter and sour
Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?
a) An earthquake near Tonga
b) The fallout from the global recession
c) The collapse of an iceberg in Antarctica
d) A massive whale stranding near the Equator
Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?
a) Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
b) Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
c) The Oxford English Dictionary
d) The Wonderful World of Disney
Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?
a) should wear clothes’
b) should buy curtains’
c) shouldn’t complain about the weather’
d) shouldn’t throw stones’
Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?
a) Alexander the Great
b) George Washington
c) Donald Trump
d) Robert Mugabe
Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?
a) The Tuatara
b) The Kangaroo
c) The Takahe
d) The Weta
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
homework week 7!!!!!!
Question One: What is the name of the Royal New Zealand Ballet show that is travelling around the country?a) Tutus on Tour
b) Ballet on Bikes
c) Crusty Demons
d) Culture Vultures
Question Two: Where was the ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’?
a) One hundred years in the future
b) Hiding in an abandoned gold mine
c) In a World War Two concentration camp
d) Living at the end of the Yellow Brick Road
Question Three: Which New Zealand beach is fifty five miles long?
a) Ninety Mile Beach
b) Hot Water Beach
c) Shelly Beach
d) Long Beach
Question Four: If people tell you to ‘rattle your dags’, they want you to..?
a) clap your hands and scream out loud
b) hurry up and get a move on
c) smile and laugh for once
d) admit defeat and go home
Question Five: Which fifty year-old has been an astronaut, a rock star, a doctor and a presidential candidate?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Madonna
c) Barbie
d) Marge Simpson
Question Six: What happened when a crocodile met a shark in Australia’s Wildman River last week?
a) They teamed up to attack humans
b) A dolphin swam in and broke up the fight
c) The crocodile ate the shark
d) The shark bit the crocodile in half
Question Seven: Why is the Chicago River dyed green once a year?
a) To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day
b) To protest about river pollution
c) To promote vegetarianism
d) To destroy noxious weeds
Question Eight: In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi broke the law when he..?
a) picked up salt from the sea
b) changed a light bulb in a public library
c) spoke English at the dinner table
d) joked about the English cricket team
Question Nine: Which of the following countries is not in the ‘Commonwealth of Nations’ (i.e. the British Commonwealth)?
a) Kenya
b) Jamaica
c) Malaysia
d) Argentina
Question Ten: What is the most prestigious award at the annual Crufts dog show?
a) The ‘Top Dog’
b) The ‘Golden Scooby’
c) The ‘Best In Show’
d) The ‘Loyal Companion’