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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. What date is Waitangi Day?

1 January5 November6 February25 April

2. What were prospectors searching for during the Otago gold rush?

SilverOilCoalGold

3. Where was the Treaty of Waitangi first signed?

At Waitangi, in the Bay of IslandsIn WellingtonIn AucklandIn Dunedin

4. What was one of the hardest daily tasks facing early European settler families in New Zealand?

Finding drinking water in the desertAvoiding snow all year roundBuilding boats to cross desertsClearing dense native bush to make room for farms and houses

5. What did European sealers, whalers and traders commonly exchange with Māori in the early 1800s?

Nothing, contact was forbiddenMuskets, tools and blankets, in return for food, flax and timberCars for horsesMoney for citizenship

6. Around what period do most historians and archaeologists say the first Polynesian settlers reached Aotearoa?

Around the 1600sAround 500 BCAround the year 1900Around the 1300s

7. What were the two written languages of the Treaty of Waitangi?

English and MāoriEnglish and FrenchMāori and LatinEnglish only

8. What was a rua kūmara?

A storage pit used to keep kūmara through winterA type of fishing hookA war canoeA meeting house

9. Many prospectors who rushed to the Otago goldfields in 1861 had already been on the goldfields of which nearby country?

ChileJapanCanadaAustralia

10. Approximately how many years after gold was found in Otago did a second major rush begin on the West Coast?

A century later, in 1961The very same weekFifty years, in 1911A few years, in the mid 1860s

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