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🥝 Aotearoa New Zealand, Land and Beginnings

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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. Which city is the capital of New Zealand?

WellingtonAucklandHamiltonChristchurch

2. What is Matariki?

A type of native birdA famous New Zealand mountainA cluster of stars that marks the Māori new yearA South Island lake

3. Which European explorer was the first to sight New Zealand, in 1642?

Ferdinand MagellanChristopher ColumbusJames CookAbel Tasman

4. What is New Zealand's tallest mountain?

Aoraki, Mount CookMount RuapehuMount TongariroMount Taranaki

5. Which explorer charted New Zealand's coastline in detail, arriving in 1769?

James CookAbel TasmanKupeWilliam Hobson

6. Which South Island city is nicknamed the 'Garden City'?

ChristchurchDunedinInvercargillNelson

7. What food did early Māori bring from tropical Polynesia and learn to grow in New Zealand's cooler climate?

KūmaraRicePotatoWheat

8. Which New Zealand town is famous for geothermal activity such as geysers and hot mud pools?

NelsonRotoruaNew PlymouthInvercargill

9. Why is it hard to translate some Treaty of Waitangi terms exactly between English and Māori?

English has no word for landMāori had no written language at all before the TreatySome English legal and political ideas had no exact matching word in Māori at the timeThe two texts were written centuries apart

10. Kaikōura, a town on the South Island's east coast, takes its name from Māori words meaning roughly what?

Meeting of watersSacred mountainLong white cloudMeal of crayfish

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