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🛶 Aotearoa New Zealand Histories, Years 4 to 6

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. In what year was the Treaty of Waitangi first signed?

1840180018201860

2. What is a pā?

A canoe paddleA fortified Māori village, often on a hillA type of net for catching eelsA woven cloak

3. What is a hapū?

A group of related whānau, sometimes called a sub tribeA single family householdA carved wooden boxA type of waka

4. Without modern instruments, how did early Polynesian navigators find their way across the open ocean?

By radio signals from other wakaBy using paper mapsBy following underwater cablesBy reading the stars, ocean swells, winds and bird flight paths

5. What is an iwi?

A large group of related hapū, often translated as 'tribe'A single extended familyA fishing netA type of feather cloak

6. Where did Abel Tasman's crew have a violent encounter with Māori in 1642?

The Bay of IslandsWellington HarbourMilford SoundGolden Bay, in the north of the South Island

7. Many early New Zealand towns grew up around what kinds of activity?

AirportsVolcanoes onlyTrading posts, mission stations, goldfields and planned settlementsSnowfields

8. What is a wharenui?

A feather cloak worn by chiefsA storage pit for kūmaraThe carved meeting house at the centre of a maraeA type of waka

9. Why did missionary Henry Williams have to work through a single night before the Treaty signing?

He was translating the Treaty from English into MāoriHe was building the meeting house at WaitangiHe was writing a dictionaryHe was repairing a ship

10. Why did Wellington later replace Auckland as New Zealand's capital city, in 1865?

The Queen ordered it for no stated reasonAuckland burned downIts central location suited a country whose population and gold wealth had grown in the South IslandWellington had the only port in the country

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