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What is NZ's highest mountain?
Mt Cook/Aoraki
100
What was the year the Treaty of Waitangi was signed?
1840
100
What is the name of the NZ national men's basketball team?
The Tall Blacks
100
Who directed the "Lord of the Rings" films?
Peter Jackson
100
What New Zealand city hosts the World Buskers Festival?
Christchurch.
200
What is New Zealand's largest lake?
Lake Taupo
200
Which one of these people was never Prime Minister; A Helen Clark B John Key C Peter Blake D David Lange
C Peter Blake
200
Mahe Drysdale is a champion...?
Rower.
200
in 2004, for what film was Keisha Castle-Hughes nominated for an Oscar?
'Whale Rider'
200
Which NZ city hosts an annual Wild Foods Festival?
Hokitika
300
What is NZ's largest inland city?
Hamilton
300
Which Banks Peninsula town was settled by the French in the 1840s?
Akaroa
300
What sport do the Black Ferns play?
Rugby (They are the NZ national women's rugby team)
300
Who performed the hit song 'Slice of Heaven', from the movie 'Footrot Flats'?
Dave Dobbyn and Herbs
300
What colour is Kikorangi?
Blue
400
What proportion of NZ1s population live in the greater Auckland region A - All B - 1/2 C - 1/3 D 1/10
C - 1/3
400
In what year did Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mt Everest?
1953
400
Which twins won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell
400
What is Katherine Mansfield famous for?
Writing short stories (writer)
400
What is the name of the NZ abalone, which is eaten as a delicacy and its shell is used for jewellery?
Paua
500
What is the most abundant fossil fuel in NZ?
Coal
500
Which New Zealand women is famous for helping get women the right to vote?
Kate Sheppard.
500
Who were New Zealand playing against in cricket, when the infamous 'Underarm bowling' incident happened?
Australia
500
Who was the famous comedian, who was named 'Entertainer of the Decade' 1975-85.
Billy T James
500
What is a tangi?
Funeral or Wake
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