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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 New Zealand commemorate every year on 25 April?

ANZAC DayArmistice DayWaitangi DayLabour Day

2. In what year was the Treaty of Waitangi signed?

1907189318401975

3. New Zealand lies along the boundary of which two tectonic plates?

The African Plate and the Antarctic PlateThe Australian Plate and the Pacific PlateThe North American Plate and the Eurasian PlateThe Indian Plate and the Nazca Plate

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

Te Puea HerangiWhina CooperHelen ClarkKate Sheppard

5. The Waikato War, one of the largest conflicts of the New Zealand Wars, was fought mainly in which region?

SouthlandWellingtonOtagoWaikato

6. Which of these is generally considered a 'push factor' that might cause someone to leave a rural area?

Strong sense of communityLower cost of housingExcellent local hospitalsLimited job opportunities in farming areas

7. What is GST in New Zealand?

A type of savings accountA tax only businesses pay, never included in shop pricesA tax added to the price of most goods and services, collected by businesses for the governmentA discount offered on goods bought in bulk

8. What is created when two tectonic plates collide and one is forced underneath the other?

A subduction zone, which often causes volcanoes and earthquakesA flat plain with no activityA coral reefA permanent calm zone

9. Which organisation coordinates New Zealand's response to natural disasters?

The Department of ConservationThe Reserve BankThe Electoral CommissionCivil Defence (the National Emergency Management Agency)

10. Roughly how fast do tectonic plates typically move in a year?

A few centimetresSeveral kilometresThey do not move at allAbout a metre

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