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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. What is Matariki?

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

2. What is a waka?

A canoeA type of houseA meeting groundA weapon

3. How did the earliest Polynesian settlers most likely reach Aotearoa?

By drifting on rafts with no navigation at allThey had always lived thereBy walking across a land bridgeBy sailing ocean-going waka, navigating by stars, wind and waves

4. Which island has a bigger land area, the North Island or the South Island?

The South IslandThe North IslandThey are exactly the same sizeNeither, New Zealand has no islands

5. What is New Zealand's tallest mountain?

Mount TongariroAoraki, Mount CookMount TaranakiMount Ruapehu

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

RiceWheatPotatoKūmara

7. Which large flightless bird, now extinct, was hunted by early Māori for food?

The moaThe takahēThe kiwiThe kākāpō

8. The Māori name for the North Island, Te Ika-a-Māui, translates to what?

The fish of MāuiThe canoe of MāuiThe land of MāuiThe mountain of Māui

9. What happened when Abel Tasman's crew first met Māori in Golden Bay in 1642?

He was welcomed with a huge feastHe never met any Māori at allA misunderstanding led to a clash, and Tasman sailed away without landingHe stayed and built a settlement

10. What did the Treaty of Waitangi's third article promise to Māori?

A permanent seat in parliament for every iwiFree passage to Britain for every familyThe same rights and protections as British subjectsOwnership of all Crown land

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