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KIWI KWIZ 2009
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

week8 homework

monday, March 23, 2009

KIWI KWIZ 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

KIWI KWIZ 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

homework week 7!!!!!!

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’