Maunga
What is the full name of our maunga?
Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu
What is the name of our ocean?
Kāwhia
What is the name of our awa?
Waipa
What is the name of our waka?
Tainui
What is the name of our marae?
Hīona
What is the full name of the other maunga seen from our marae?
Kakepuku Te Aroaro o Kahu
Which coast is Kāwhia located?
West Coast
Who named the Waipa?
Kahu
What does Tainui mean?
Tai = Tide
Nui = Great or Big
The Great Tide
What does Hiona mean?
Zion
Who is the wife of Pīrongia Maunga?
Taupiri
What is the famous quote widely known about Kāwhia
Kāwhia moana, Kāwhia kai, Kāwhia tangata.
True or False? The Waipa is the largest river connected to the Waikato
True
Where is Tainui waka buried?
Te Ahurei o Hoturoa in Kāwhia.
What is the name of the wharenui?
Te Awananui is the wharenui
What is the highest peak of the maunga called?
Hihikiwi
What are the names of the 2 marae in Kāwhia?
Maketu & Waipapa
What is the name of taniwha that protects the Waipa?
Waiwaiā
Who built Tainui waka?
Rakataura
What is the name of the wharekai?
Te Puna Aroha Te Puna Kai is the wharekai
What was Rakataura, the tohunga of Tainui, create on the tip of Pirongia?
Rakataura ascended the maunga and scattered dirt from Hawaiki at the highest peak to create a portal for the hunga mate to return back to the Hawaiki.
What are the names of the two famous māori from Tainui that had a race to find paradise, which we know today as Kāwhia?
What is the name of the river at Wharerimu?
Ngakoawhia
What are the names of the two stones that protect and guard the resting place of Tainui waka?
Hani & Puna
When was Hīona opened and by whom?
Opened in 1990 by Dame Te Atairangikaahu