KIWI KWIZ 2009
QUIZ 34

Question One: New Zealand is technically..?
a) three times the size of France
b) at war with Germany
c) a state of Australia
d) part of Micronesia

Question Two: What is the busiest night of the year for firefighters across the country?
a) Christmas Eve
b) Guy Fawkes
c) Halloween
d) Chinese New Year

Question Three: From 2011, the Police will be allowed to..?
a) shoot first and ask questions later
b) inject suspects with a truth serum
c) take DNA samples from anyone they intend to charge with an offence
d) pay witnesses two million dollars to testify against gang members

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘People who have supper with the devil should..?
a) laugh at his jokes’
b) leave before dessert’
c) tip the waiter’
d) use a long spoon’

Question Five: Which of the following carnival acts is not an illusion?
a) Swallowing a sword
b) Sawing a woman in half
c) Catching a moving bullet in the mouth
d) Making an assistant float in the air

Question Six: To avoid offending their hosts, what did the All Blacks do in Japan last week?
a) They shaved their beards
b) They did a Japanese version of the haka
c) They covered up their tattoos
d) They left their wives and girlfriends back at the hotel

Question Seven: In New Zealand, which flavour of ice cream is more popular than Hokey Pokey?
a) Hokey Hokey Pokey Pokey
b) Vanilla
c) Cookies and Cream
d) French Vanilla

Question Eight: If you throw a coin twice and it comes up heads both times, what are the odds of it coming up tails on the third throw?
a) One in ten
b) Fifty-fifty
c) Two-out-of-three
d) Zero

Question Nine: Why did New Zealand send a frigate to Mururoa Atoll in 1973?
a) To deliver plutonium to the French Navy
b) To protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific
c) To rescue French sailors who were caught in the fallout from a nuclear test
d) To invade French Polynesia and stop the nuclear tests

Question Ten: What is the ‘race that stops two nations’?
a) The Melbourne Cup
b) The Tour de France
c) The Coast-to-Coast
d) The Hamilton 400

kiwi kwiz 2009 Quiz21

KIWI KWIZ

QUIZ 21

2009

Question One: How did the ancestors of the Little Spotted Kiwi get to New Zealand?
b) They were brought here by Maori as a food source

Question Two: What did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bring back from the moon?
b) 22 kilograms of moon rocks

Question Three: Why was there a tsunami alert in the Pacific last week?
b) There was a massive earthquake in the South Island

Question Four: What was Rumpelstiltskin’s special skill?
d) He could spin straw into gold

Question Five: In the Tour de France, what colour jersey does the ‘King of the Mountains’ wear?
d) The white jersey with red polka dots

Question Six: How many people are living in New Zealand unlawfully?
b) about 17,000

Question Seven: The Australian town of Bundanoon has become the first town in the world to..?
d) ban the sale of bottled water

Question Eight: About one third of the Earth’s land surface is covered by..?
a) desert

Question Nine: What do tourists do to Ireland’s Blarney Stone?
c) Kiss it

Question Ten: Complete this famous sentence “That’s one small step for man,..?
c) one giant leap for mankind”

charlottes homework was posted on the thusday

go me

Charlottes spelling

Week 1 Term 3
Turangi
Whakapapa
Ruapehu
Tongariro
Ngarurehoe
Volcano
wonder
skiing
snowboarding
mountain
Palliser
Jellicoe
subtraction
Te Awaiti
scissors
multiplication
orientation
decimal

kiwi qiuz week 13 2009

KIWI QIUZ

WEEK 13

2009

Question One: What is the southernmost point of all the territory claimed by New Zealand?
a) Waipapa Point, Southland

Question Two: What’s been banned from the central business district of Wanganui?
b) Gang patches

Question Three: How come the Great Fire of London saved thousands of human lives?
a) The fire destroyed the plague rats and their breeding grounds

Question Four: The West Coast of the South Island has just got its first..?
b) set of traffic lights

Question Five: Which of the following claims is true?
c) No New Zealand netball team has won an ANZ championship game in Australia

Question Six: Why were Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey going to see the King?
c) They thought the King would grant them three wishes

Question Seven: Which small British car had its fiftieth birthday last week?
c) The Beetle

Question Eight: What is the main job of rodeo clowns?
b) To protect the fallen riders from the bulls


Question Nine: In the sequence ‘Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta.., what comes next?
b) Echo’

Question Ten: What is the nickname of the New Zealand men’s national ice hockey team?
a) The Ice Blacks

kiwi kwiz 2009 week 12

kiwi kwiz 2009

week 12

posted 5/5/2009

Question One: What did Tom Ah Chee open in South Auckland in 1958?
b) New Zealand’s first supermarket

Question Two: Why were schools across Mexico closed last week?
c) Swine flu is sweeping the country

Question Three: Under New Zealand law, the only people allowed to get a tattoo with a Maori design are..?
c) people over sixteen years of age

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘A picture is worth..?
d) a thousand words’

Question Five: Which bird swims the fastest?
a) The Penguin

Question Six: Dr Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk when he..?
d) was exposed to radiation from a gamma bomb test

Question Seven: A city that has more than ten million people is called a..?
a) megacity


Question Eight: What does an omnivore eat?
c) Plants and animals


Question Nine: As Jack was going to Wellington, he met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven cats, and each cat had seven kittens. So how many living creatures were going to Wellington?
d) One

Question Ten: One out of every three people in the world is..?
c) surfing the internet right now

week 9 homework

kiwi qiuz

2009

Question One: Which of the following events was not an April Fools’ Day joke?
b) In 1999, a town in Taranaki elected a goat as its President

Question Two: What did people around the world do last Saturday night about climate change?
b) Turned their lights off for one hour

Question Three: In Shakespeare’s era, who acted the parts of women in his plays?
a) Boys

Question Four: Why do New Zealanders get an extra hour of sleep this Sunday?
c) Daylight saving ends

Question Five: What is the ‘Golden Rule’?
d) Do to others what you want them to do to you

Question Six: In netball, a ‘wing attack’ cannot..?
a) score goals

Question Seven: What is Helen Clark’s new job?
b) Head of the United Nations Development Program

Question Eight: Why does the army refer to three o’clock in the afternoon as ‘1500 hours’?
d) So 3:00pm is not confused with 3:00am

Question Nine: Which controversial farming practise is set to resume in New Zealand?
a) Live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia

Question Ten: What does the Japanese word ‘Karaoke’ mean in English?
a) Happy Singing Box

kiwi quiz 2009

week 8

question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?

d) A newborn baby

Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?

c) the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries

Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?

b) Dunedin

Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?

d) She is a robot

Question Five: Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?

c) salty, sweet, bitter and sour

Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?

a) An earthquake near Tonga

Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?

c) The Oxford English dictionary

Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?

d) shouldn’t throw stones’

Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?

a) Alexander the Great

Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?

D) the weta

Week 7 homework kiwi kwiz 2009

KIWI KWIZ 2009
WEEK 7

Question One: What is the name of the Royal New Zealand Ballet show that is travelling around the country?
a) Tutus on Tour
b) Ballet on Bikes
c) Crusty Demons
d) Culture Vultures

Question Two: Where was the ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’?
a) One hundred years in the future
b) Hiding in an abandoned gold mine
c) In a World War Two concentration camp
d) Living at the end of the Yellow Brick Road

Question Three: Which New Zealand beach is fifty five miles long?
a) Ninety Mile Beach
b) Hot Water Beach
c) Shelly Beach
d) Long Beach

Question Four: If people tell you to ‘rattle your dags’, they want you to..?
a) clap your hands and scream out loud
b) hurry up and get a move on
c) smile and laugh for once
d) admit defeat and go home

Question Five: Which fifty year-old has been an astronaut, a rock star, a doctor and a presidential candidate?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Madonna
c) Barbie
d) Marge Simpson

Question Six: What happened when a crocodile met a shark in Australia’s Wildman River last week?
a) They teamed up to attack humans
b) A dolphin swam in and broke up the fight
c) The crocodile ate the shark
d) The shark bit the crocodile in half

Question Seven: Why is the Chicago River dyed green once a year?
a) To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day
b) To protest about river pollution
c) To promote vegetarianism
d) To destroy noxious weeds

Question Eight: In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi broke the law when he..?
a) picked up salt from the sea
b) changed a light bulb in a public library
c) spoke English at the dinner table
d) joked about the English cricket team

Question Nine: Which of the following countries is not in the ‘Commonwealth of Nations’ (i.e. the British Commonwealth)?
a) Kenya
b) Jamaica
c) Malaysia
d) Argentina

Question Ten: What is the most prestigious award at the annual Crufts dog show?
a) The ‘Top Dog’
b) The ‘Golden Scooby’
c) The ‘Best In Show’
d) The ‘Loyal Companion’

charlotte's week 6 homework 2009

Question One: Why were sparrows introduced to New Zealand?
a) To remind English settlers of home
b) To provide food for cats
c) To eat crop-destroying insects
d) To provide feathers for hats
Question Two: What is causing heated arguments in Wanganui?
a) A proposal to open a casino on Victoria Avenue
b) A proposal to build a monorail to Palmerston North
c) A proposal to pull out of New Zealand’s Top Town competition
d) A proposal to add the letter ‘h’ to the name of the city
Question Three: During the Academy Awards, what happens to winners who talk for more than 45 seconds?
a) Their Oscars get thrown in the rubbish
b) They receive a standing ovation
c) They are not invited back next year
d) Their words get drowned out by music
Question Four: Where did Napoleon meet his ‘Waterloo’?
a) ABBA
b) Waterloo
c) Trafalgar
d) Gate Pa
Question Five: Why did the townspeople of Hamelin hire the Pied Piper?
a) To baby-sit the town’s children
b) To rid the town of its rats
c) To make it rain on the town’s barren crops
d) To bring music and joy to a weary people
Question Six: Why couldn’t New Zealand golfer Danny Lee keep the prize money for winning a tournament in Australia last week?
a) Danny is an amateur golfer
b) Danny is under 21 years of age
c) Danny forgot to tee off at the 18th hole
d) Danny missed the prize-giving
Question Seven: A lawyer who specialises in representing accident victims is called..?
a) a gold digger
b) a witch doctor
c) an ambulance chaser
d) an early worm
Question Eight: What was the outcome of the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match in 1973?
a) The woman won
b) The man won
c) The match ended in a draw
d) The game was called off after protestors ran on to the court
Question Nine: Which of the following creatures is actually a fish?
a) Jellyfish
b) Starfish
c) Silverfish
d) Dogfish
Question Ten: Half of half of half a pizza is..?
a) half a pizza
b) a quarter of a pizza
c) one-eighth of a pizza
d) too much pizza for anyone to eat

homework week5

Question One: Why did New Zealand invade Samoa in 1914?
answer:B
Question Two: In the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, why do the police interrogate the hero?
answer:B
Question Three: The city of Auckland was built on the site of..?
answer:A
Question Four: In television programmes, which technique is often used to get suspects to confess to a crime?
answer:C
Question Five: What is the Government planning to do with 40 young people who continually break the law?
answer:B
Question Six: If Adam is an optimist and Eve is a pessimist, then..?
answer:c
Question Seven: What happened the second time the shepherd boy cried ‘wolf’?
answer:a
Question Eight: In Victorian England, a 'Tosher' was a person who..?
answer:C
Question Nine: Which of the following events didn’t happen in the last fortnight?
answer:D
Question Ten: Why did the New Zealand Government expel Fiji’s High Commissioner late last year?
answer:C

Over the weekend, myself and my family went to the movies and really like it. it was the movies hotel for dogs then we went to lots of different playgrouds.
Also on sturday there was a moter bike crash and somebody died


I'm really enjoying having a digitil class and going swimming

things i am enjoying this year?
having computers in our class
and having two teachers

people i am enjoy working with ...?
i am like working with alot of people from room 10

if i could change anything i would change...?
having a laptop

treaty of waitangi

a treaty is a agreement between two tribes