1. What do you know about
New Zealand?

2. The Maori name for New Zealand is
Aotearoa.
What does it mean in English?
• Land of cloudy mountains
• Land of the long white cloud
• Land of the mountains of cloud
• Land of the white cloud

3. Aotearoa
Land of the long white cloud

4. Which of these features does not
describe New Zealand’s national
bird, the kiwi.
• Nocturnal
• Low vision
• Low hearing
• Flightless

5. Low hearing
(The kiwi is nocturnal, has poor
sight, and is flightless)

6. The most common street names in
New Zealand are named after what?
• British politicians
• British royalty
• British explorers
• British Towns

7. British royalty
(The most common names are King
Street and Queen Street)

8. What is the main ingredient of
the ANZAC biscuit?
• Dates
• Rolled oats
• Apple
• Rice

9. Rolled oats (flocons d’avoine)

10. What is the southernmost area
of New Zealand’s territory?
• South Island
• Ross Dependency
• Auckland Islands
• Stewart Island

11. Ross
Dependency

12. New Zealanders love to explore the
world. Which country contains the
most expatriate kiwis?
• Australia
• United States
• England
• Fiji

13. Australia
Currently 650,000 New Zealand
citizens live in Australia.

14. In which year did James Cook chart
the coastline of New Zealand?
• 1592
• 1840
• 1642
• 1769

15. 1769
This was the same year that French
explorer Jean de Surville arrived in
New Zealand, just behind the British.
If he had arrived first, New Zealand
history could have been very
different…

16. When did New Zealand give
women the vote?
• 1845
• 1893
• 1924
• 1973

17. 1893

18. Which New Zealander was the first
person to climb Mount Everest?
• Sir Edmund Hilary
• Sir William Birch
• Sir Richard Hadlee
• Sherpa Tenzing

19. Sir Edmund Hilary
with Tenzing Norgay in 1953

20. What is the name of New
Zealand’s capital city?
• Auckland
• Wellington
• Russell
• Christchurch

21. Wellington
although Auckland is by far the
largest city.