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