Term 2 Week 2..

Hi all...

A reminder that you should have a fairly good idea now what you are going to do your speech on. These are in week 6, but we aim to have it written by the end of week 4 so that you have week 5 to learn it. 

Also remember that there is cross country in week 7 :).

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 12

 

Question One: What did Tom Ah Chee open in South Auckland in 1958?

a)   New Zealand’s first movie theatre

b)   New Zealand’s first supermarket

c)   New Zealand’s first Chinese restaurant

d)   New Zealand’s first internet cafe

 

Question Two: Why were schools across Mexico closed last week?

a)    The teachers were on strike for better pay

b)    A series of earthquakes rocked Mexico City

c)    Swine flu is sweeping the country

d)    Most children of school age have full-time jobs

 

Question Three: Under New Zealand law, the only people allowed to get a tattoo with a Maori design are..?

a)    Maori

b)    New Zealand citizens

c)    people over sixteen years of age

d)    people who have lived in New Zealand for ten years and learnt to speak Te Reo Maori

 

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘A picture is worth..?

a)    a lifetime of make-believe’

b)    fifteen minutes of fame’

c)    a summer of songs’

d)    a thousand words’

 

Question Five: Which bird swims the fastest?

a)   The Penguin

b)   The Black Swan

c)   The Trout

d)   The Pelican

 

Question Six: Dr Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk when he..?

a)   fell into a cauldron of magic potion

b)   was bitten by a radioactive spider

c)   was struck by lightning on top of the Empire State Building

d)   was exposed to radiation from a gamma bomb test

 

Question Seven: A city that has more than ten million people is called a..?

a)    megacity

b)    monstros-i-city

c)    global city

d)    city-city

 

Question Eight: What does an omnivore eat?

a)    Anything

b)    Anything that moves

c)    Plants and animals

d)    Nothing

 

Question Nine: As Jack was going to Wellington, he met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven cats, and each cat had seven kittens. So how many living creatures were going to Wellington?

a)    400

b)    401

c)    None

d)    One

 

Question Ten: One out of every three people in the world is..?

a)    living in China

b)    a Christian

c)    surfing the internet right now

d)    in jail

DONT FORGET...

Raffle tickets for our great mothers day prize are due back to Sandie by Friday please.

Have a good week :) i'm sure we will...

Mrs R