How Much Do You Know About NZ?

This term we have been researching interesting facts and figures about New Zealand. We have had a short test every week and this week we will have a test on the complete 100. See how many you know. Answers are at the end.
100 Basic Facts about New Zealand’s Culture, Heritage and History
Keep checking for more pictures which will be added during the week. Do you know which picture relates to which question?

1. Which city is the capital of NZ?
2. What are the 3 colours on the NZ flag?
3. What is the Maori name for NZ?
4. The Maori name for NZ means...
5. Which is our largest lake?
6. Which mountain is the highest in NZ?
7. Name NZ’s longest river.
8. How many stars are on the NZ flag?
9. New Zealand is in which ocean?
10. What is the name of the sea between NZ and Australia?
11. What is the name of Captain Cook’s ship in which he sailed to NZ? It is also on the 50c coin.
12. What is the name of the long chain of mountains that make up the backbone of South Island?
13. What is the third largest island in New Zealand?
14. When did New Zealand change to decimal currency?
15. The largest (population) city in NZ is not the capital. Which city is the largest?
16. Name the plant that is our national symbol.
17 Which flightless bird is also a noun for New Zealanders and an adjective for anything to do with NZ.
18. Which New Zealander was the first in the world to climb Mt Everest?
19. What is the name for a traditional fenced Maori village?
20. Name the two harbours which border Auckland city.
21 What Australian marsupial has become a pest on Kawau Island?
22. What is the largest native tree in NZ?
23. What is the name of the stretch of water that separates the North and South Islands?
24. Which city is named The Garden City?
25. What plant did Maori weave into baskets?










26. What is the name given to the Parliament Buildings in Wellington because of its shape?
27. What is the Maori word for stomach?
28. What is the name of our national museum in Wellington?
29. What is the name of the ‘living dinosaur’ that only lives in NZ?
30. Which Maori chief composed the haka (ka mate ka mate) made famous by the All Blacks?
31. What is the name of the national rugby team.
32. What is the name of the national netball team?
33. Drysdale, romney, and merino are all breeds of what?
34. Which New Zealander directed the “Lord of The Rings” films?
35. What is the Maori name for the sweet potato?
36. Which island of NZ has the most people living on it?
37. What is the name given to the underground method of cooking used by Maori
38. Which NZ city is the first to see the sunrise each day?
39. Who is the NZ cartoonist who created Footrot Flats?
40. What important agreement between Maori chiefs and the British crown was signed in 1840?
41. In the Maori legend who was the first person to land on New Zealand after being caught in a storm?
42. What do the stars on the NZ flag represent?
43. Who was the first explorer from Europe to visit NZ?
44. Which English captain was the first known white man to land on NZ soil?
45. What is the northernmost tip on the North Island called?
46. What is the most southern settlement of the South Island called?
47. Which are the 2 main political parties in NZ?
48. What is the name of the hard green rock used for Maori carvings?
49. Which colour is the Maori word ma used for?
50. Which city was the capital before it moved to Wellington?

51. What is New Zealander Kiri Te Kanawa famous for?
52. In 1976, New Zealand Day was changed back to its original name. What was that original name?
53. What is the name for a Maori war dance or challenge?
54. What is the name of the stretch of water that separates the South Island and Stewart Island?
55. Which Banks Peninsula town was originally settled by the French?
56. What is the more common name for the NZ owl?
57. What is the name of the NZ women’s rugby team?
58. What did Maori villagers keep in their pataka?
59. Which NZ er was the first person to split the atom?
60. Which New Zealand fruit was originally called the Chinese gooseberry?
61. What is the name of the voting system to elect members of parliament?
62. What is the largest city in the Waikato?
63. What is the name of the volcanic island off the coast of Whakatane?
64. When did NZ win the World Cup for rugby?
65. Which race horse was born in Timaru but was claimed to be an Australian horse?
66. Which NZ band had, amongst many of its members, Tim Finn and later, his brother, Neil Finn?
67. Where, when and what was the name of NZ’s worst ship wreck in terms of loss of life?
68. Which Wellington-born NZ woman is still considered to be one of the world’s best writer of short stories?
69. What is the day and year that NZ and Australian troops landed at Gallipoli?
70. What is the Maori name of a wooden box made for keeping precious feathers of a specific bird?
71. What is the name of the national soccer team?
72. What is the name of the national Rugby League team?
73. Which NZ town has a large carrot as its symbol?
74. What dolphin became famous and was named after the beach it visited in the Hokianga harbour in 1955-57.
75. Which volcano erupted in 1886, destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces?
76. Which city and area was hit by a massive earthquake in February 1931?
77. What is the name of the marae and the town which is the home of the Maori King movement?
78. Who was the leader of the campaign for women to have the right to vote in elections?
79. Where and when was New Zealand’s worst air disaster?
80. What was the name of the Greenpeace ship, sunk in Auckland in 1985?
81. Who is the current Maori King?
82. Who said, “E hoa, ka whawhai, tonu ahau kia koe ake, ake,” at the battle of Orakau, and what does it mean?
83. Who was the leader of the settlement at Parihaka?
84. When did the first shipment of frozen meat leave New Zealand and what was the name of the ship?
85. Where did 6,500 NZ troops fight between 1899-1902, and what was the name of the war?
86. Who was the first New Zealander to take to the air in powered flight in the early 1900s?
87. Who won New Zealand’s first Olympic track gold medal. Where and when?
88. Which New Zealander set a world record in flying from England to New Zealand, in 1936?
89. Which New Zealander was awarded the Victoria Cross two times in World War 2?
90. Who led the Maori Land March from Te Hapua to Parliament in 1975?
91. What sports event divided New Zealand opinion and caused protest marches in 1981?
92. Which NZ adventurer and leader of NZ America’s Cup challenge was murdered in Brazil in 2001?
93. What is the name of the NZ base at Antarctica?
94. Joe Hawke led a protest against the loss of Maori land at which Auckland landmark in 1977?
95. Which animal is on the NZ coat of arms and what does it represent?
96. Where would you find the Treaty of Waitangi today?
97. Who is the most recent NZ recipient of a Victoria Cross?
98. Who is on the $50.00 note?
99. Who wrote the words for the New Zealand National Anthem?
100. Where and when was New Zealand’s greatest disaster, in terms of lives lost in a single day?

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Answers: Please leave a comment if you disagree with any of our answers.

1. Wellington, 2. red, white and blue, 3. Aotearoa, 4. Land of the long white cloud, 5. Lake Taupo, 6. Mt Cook or Aoraki/Aorangi, 7.Waikato River, 8. Four, 9. The Pacific Ocean, 10. The Tasman Sea, 11. Endeavour, 12. The Southern Alps, 13. Stewart Island, 14. 1967, 15. Auckland, 16. silver fern, 17. Kiwis, 18. Sir Edmund Hillary, 19. pa, 20. Manukau and Waitemata Harbours, 21. wallabies, 22. kauri tree, 23 .Cook Strait, 24. Christchurch, 25. flax, 26. The Beehive, 27. puku, 28. Te Papa, 29. tuatara, 30 Te Rauparaha, 31. The All Blacks, 32. The Silver Ferns 33, sheep, 34. Peter Jackson, 35. kumara, 36. North Island, 37. hangi, 38 Gisborne, 39. Murray Ball, 40. The Treaty of Waitangi, 41. Kupe, 42. The Southern Cross, 43. Abel Tasman, 44 Captain James Cook,45. North Cape (Cape Reinga is northwesternmost point), 46. Bluff, 47. National and Labour, 48. pounamu or greenstone, 49. white, 50. Auckland, 51. opera singing, 52. Waitangi Day, 53. haka, 54. Foveaux Strait, 55 Akaroa, 56. morepork, 57. The Black Ferns, 58. food, 59. Ernest Rutherford, 60. kiwi fruit. 61. Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMP ), 62. Hamilton, 63. White Island, 64. 1987, 65. Phar Lap, 66. Split Enz, 67. Manukau Heads, 7 February, 1863, the HMS Orpheus, 189 lives lost, 68. Katherine Mansfield, 69. 25^th April 1915, 70. waka huia, 71. All Whites, 72. Kiwis, 73. Ohakune, 74. Opo, 75. Tarawera, 76. Napier – Hawkes Bay, 77. Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, 78. Kate Sheppard,79. Mt Erebus, Antarctica, 1979, 80. Rainbow Warrior, 81. Tuheitia Paki, 82. Friend, we will fight on forever; Rewi Maniapoto, 83. Te Whiti, 84. 1882, S.S Dunedin,85. South Africa, Boer War,86. Richard Pearse, 87. Jack Lovelock, Berlin, 1936, 88. Jean Batten, 89. Charles Upham, 90. Whina Cooper, 91 Spingbok Tour, 92 Peter Blake, 93. Scott, 94. Bastion Point,95. sheep – farming, 96. The Archives NZ building on Mulgrave St. Wellington, 97. Corporal Willie Apiata, 98. Sir Apirana Ngata, 99. Thomas Bracken, 100. 12^th October 1917, at Passchendaele, (Ypres) 850 dead. (In some places it states 840).