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🗺️ History and Geography, Years 9 and 10

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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 does ANZAC stand for?

Auckland and New Zealand Army CommandAustralia and New Zealand Alliance CouncilAllied New Zealand Air CorpsAustralian and New Zealand Army Corps

2. Which city is New Zealand's largest by population?

WellingtonAucklandHamiltonChristchurch

3. Who was the most prominent leader of the New Zealand women's suffrage campaign?

Te Puea HerangiKate SheppardHelen ClarkWhina Cooper

4. Why does New Zealand have so many active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes?

It sits in the middle of a single, still tectonic plateIt has no mountains, which causes instabilityIt is a very large countryIt sits on a tectonic plate boundary, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire

5. The Gallipoli campaign, where ANZAC troops landed on 25 April 1915, took place in which present-day country?

FranceEgyptGreeceTurkey

6. The 28th Māori Battalion, a unit that became well known for its service overseas, fought for New Zealand in which war?

The First World WarThe Second World WarThe New Zealand WarsThe Gallipoli campaign only

7. Which body was set up in 1975 to investigate claims about breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi?

The Electoral CommissionThe Court of AppealThe Reserve BankThe Waitangi Tribunal

8. What is inflation?

A tax added to wagesAn increase in the number of banks in a countryA general decrease in prices over timeA general increase in prices over time, which reduces what money can buy

9. What is the term for land taken from Māori by the government after the New Zealand Wars, without the owners' agreement?

Long-term leasePurchaseGiftConfiscation (raupatu)

10. Why was New Zealand's achievement in 1893 significant on a world scale?

It was the first country where women outnumbered menIt was the first country to allow women to become Prime MinisterIt was the first country in the world to have a written constitutionIt became the first self-governing country where women won the right to vote in parliamentary elections

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