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100

What color is the New Zealand flag?

What is Royal Blue with the Union Jack in the upper left corner and four red stars with white borders on the right side?

100

What sport is the most popular and widely played in New Zealand?

What is Rugby?

100

 In the Waikato region of New Zealand, near Matamata is a private family farm that has become a tourist destination because of the filming of movies about Tolkiens books. What is the name of this location in these books?

What is the Shire?

100

What nocturnal bird is known for its long beak and strong sense of smell?

What is Kiwi bird?

100

What honey is from a very special tree that only grows in New Zealand?

What is Manuka Honey?

200

What is the capital city of New Zealand?

What is Wellington?

200

What New Zealand rugby team is famous worldwide?

What is All Blacks?

200

What famous books written by Tolkien have a connection with New Zealand?

What is The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings?

200

What marine mammal, found in New Zealand waters, is known for its playful behavior and intelligence?

What is Dolphin?

200

What type of meat is one of the main exports of New Zealand. Famous all over the world for being high quality, tender and lean. They even outnumber the humans?

What is lamb?

300

What is the name of the largest city in New Zealand?

What is Auckland?

300

What is the fastest growing sport in New Zealand?

What is basketball? Basketball participation has seen an increase of 61% since 2000. It is projected to be the most popular high school sport in New Zealand by 2026.

300

In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the character Gollum refers to this object as "My Preciousssss?"

What is the ring of power?

300

What large, flightless bird, now extinct, was known to live in New Zealand until the late 1600s?

What is Moa?

300

New Zealanders are one of the biggest consumers of what cold dairy treat?

What is Ice Cream?

400

What body of water lies between New Zealand and Australia?

What is the Tasman Sea?

400

The nickname "Tall Blacks" is often used referring to players of what sport?

What is basketball? This nickname comes from the "All Blacks"(which is the name of the national rugby team) and replaces "All" with "Tall" in reference to the often well-above-average height of basketball players.

400

New Zealand's mountain ranges, wild rivers and grassy fields provided the perfect setting for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. What is the name of this land in the books?

What is Middle-Earth?

400

What unique reptile, found only in New Zealand, is often referred to as a "living fossil?"

What is Tuatara?

400

Hokey Pokey, a very popular ice cream flavor in New Zealand. It is made up of vanilla ice cream and this ingredient?

What is Honeycomb toffee? (Karumeyaki)

500

In what year did New Zealand become a British colony?

What is 1840?

500

What sport is played on a rectangle court with 2 teams of 7 players and the objective is to throw a ball through a net?

What is Netball? Netball is the most popular of Women sports in New Zealand.

500

What is Tolkien's full name?

Who is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? He was born on Jan. 3rd, 1892 in South Africa and died on Sept. 2nd 1973 in the United Kingdom.

500

What flightless, nocturnal bird is critically endangered, with fewer than 250 individuals remaining in the wild?

What is Kakapo?

500

A Kiwi Burger is a cheeseburger with an egg and this vegetable?

What is beetroot?

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