1. Year 11-12 Quiz
2015

2. Science – Question 1
Recently a probe has sent back pictures from the
dwarf planet Pluto. The name of the probe is?

3. Science – Question 2
In Guinea pigs, smooth hair is recessive and
rough hair is dominant. If two heterozygous
rough hair Guinea pigs were mated, what
proportion of the off spring would be expected
to have smooth hair.

4. Science – Question 3
Isaac Newton is famous for, among other things,
3 laws of motion. One of them states “for every
action there is an equal and opposite reaction”.
Which of Newton’s laws is this? (1st, 2nd or 3rd)

5. Science – Question 4
Gregor Mendel is sometimes known as the
“father of genetics” because he identified many
of the rules of heredity. What living thing did he
experiment with to identify these rules?

6. Science – Question 5
Who is responsible for the following famous
quote: “All science is either physics or stamp
collecting”

7. Science – Question 6
How does the amount of work done walking up
a slope compare to the amount of work done in
climbing straight up to the same height?

8. Science – Question 7
What type of substance is the following an
example of?

9. Science – Question 8
Balance the following chemical equation for the
reaction between Iron and Oxygen:
Fe + O2 = Fe2O3

10. Science – Question 9
What is the only letter that does not appear in
the periodic table?

11. Science – Question 10
Name the 3 basic types of radioactivity:

12. Science Answers
1) New Horizons
2) 25% or ¼
3) 3rd
4) Pea plants
5) Ernest Rutherford
6) It is the same
7) An alcohol
8) 4Fe + 3O2 = 2Fe2O3 (any fractions not correct)
9) The letter J
10) alpha, beta, gamma

13. Health and PE – Question 1
What is the Maori words for mental and
emotional well-being?

14. Health and PE – Question 2
What 'M' builds up in the lungs when people
smoke?

15. Health and PE – Question 3
What large molecule helps us grow and repair
body tissue?

16. Health and PE – Question 4
Muscles usually work in pairs when enabling
movement to occur, one of those muscle pairs is
called the antagonist and the other... what?

17. Health and PE – Question 5
What is the sum of the equation
Mass x Acceleration?

18. Health and PE – Question 6
What ‘Method of Training’ is linked with a
work:rest ratio?

19. Health and PE – Question 7
What 'L' is the energy system that lasts for 30-40
seconds?

20. Health and PE – Question 8
What is the name of the ground/stadium where
the men's Rugby World Cup Final will be held
this year?

21. Health and PE – Question 9
In tennis when the score is locked at 40 all, it is
called what? Correct spelling required!

22. Health and PE – Question 10
The British Open Golf Tournament which has
recently been played at the course which is
known as the home of golf but what is it called?

23. Health and PE Answers
1) Taha Hinengaro
2) Mucus
3) Protein
4) Agonist
5) Force
6) Interval
7) Lactic Acid
8) Twickenham
9) Deuce
10) St Andrews

24. Humanities – Question 1
In which city is the United Nations headquarters
situated?

25. Humanities – Question 2
Name the waterfall below found on the Waikato
River.

26. Humanities – Question 3
Which nymph offered Odysseus immortality in
return for his sexual favours?

27. Humanities – Question 4
In which city was Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
assassinated?

28. Humanities – Question 5
What is the geographic term for “networks”?

29. Humanities – Question 6
The battle of “Lone Pine” was located in which
country?

30. Humanities – Question 7
Who was the well known Irish philanthropist
who organised the Live Aid concert in 1985?

31. Humanities – Question 8
A “bestarius” is a slave that would frequent
which piece of architecture in Rome?

32. Humanities – Question 9
State TWO ways scale can be shown on a map.

33. Humanities – Question 10
What is the name of the entertainment space
on Queen’s Wharf?

34. Humanities - Answers
• 1. New York City
• 2. Huka Falls
• 3. Calypso
• 4. Sarajevo
• 5. Infrastructure
• 6. Turkey
• 7. Bob Geldof
• 8. The Colosseum
• 9. Written, ratio or drawn
• 10. The Cloud

35. English – Question 1
Which word beginning with ‘A’ best suits the
following definition.
‘silly or funny actions’

36. English – Question 2
Name the two families at war in Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet

37. English – Question 3
What ‘G’ is a wizard from Middle Earth?

38. English – Question 4
New Zealander Eleanor Cattin won the ‘Man
Booker Prize’ for what book?

39. English – Question 5
What is a sequence of shots, often put to music,
that conveys time passing?

40. English – Question 6
What is the name of one of these writing
instruments?

41. English – Question 7
What is the comparative and superlative of the
word ‘Happy’

42. English – Question 8

43. English – Question 9
Who is the author of the Divergent/Insurgent
series?

44. English – Question 10

45. English – Answers
1) Antics
2) Montague and Capulet
3) Gandalf
4) The Luminaires
5) Montage
6) Quill
7) Happier/Happiest