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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 was the moa?

A type of sharkA giant flightless bird, now extinctA kind of wakaA small lizard

2. Which explorer's ship was the first European vessel known to reach New Zealand, in 1642?

Ferdinand MagellanJames CookAbel TasmanChristopher Columbus

3. Which city grew rapidly because of the Otago gold rush?

DunedinAucklandHamiltonNapier

4. What eventually happened to the moa after Polynesian settlers arrived in Aotearoa?

It was hunted to extinction within a few hundred yearsIt flew to AustraliaIt is still found in remote forests todayIt was tamed and kept as livestock

5. What is an iwi?

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

6. Was the Polynesian voyage to Aotearoa most likely an accident or a planned journey?

A single lost fisherman who found it aloneNobody sailed there, people walked across iceA shipwreck that drifted there by accidentA deliberate, planned voyage

7. What kind of settlements did organisations such as the New Zealand Company set up in the 1840s, including Wellington and Nelson?

PrisonsGold mining campsPlanned towns for British settlersMāori only settlements

8. What kind of food did early Māori communities gather from the sea?

Fish and shellfishNothing, they avoided the seaOnly seaweedWhale meat exclusively

9. In Māori tradition, who is remembered as one of the great early navigators credited with discovering Aotearoa?

KupeHobsonMarsdenTasman

10. Which is the larger grouping, a hapū or an iwi?

Neither is bigger, they never combineThey are exactly the same sizeA hapū, since it is made up of several iwiAn iwi, since it is made up of several hapū

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