Week 2

Here is this weeks quiz...I will write up the 10 language words on the board tomorrow. Also remember that you need to prove 1.5hours of reading signed as well please.

Hi everyone. Here are the questions for this week.
KIWI KWIZ 2009
QUIZ 32

Question One: In the 1990s, why was the Calicivirus deliberately (and illegally) introduced to New Zealand?
a) To enable New Zealanders to develop an immunity to bird flu
b) To destroy the weeds choking North Island rivers
c) To assist in the mass-production of golden kiwifruit
d) To reduce the rabbit population

Question Two: If you’re trying to save a beached whale, you should..?
a) sing sad songs and shake the whale’s dorsal fin
b) place sheets over the whale’s eyes and pour water down its blowhole
c) cover the whale with light coloured sheets and pour water over its body
d) pull the whale’s tail and try to drag it out to sea

Question Three: Who is not allowed to go to the 2010 ‘Big Day Out’ in Auckland?
a) People who attended the 2009 ‘Big Day Out’
b) People who get a pension from the Government
c) People with visible tattoos
d) People who are under fifteen years of age

Question Four: The ‘Hobby Horse’, the ‘Velocipede’ and the ‘Boneshaker’ were..?
a) early versions of the bicycle
b) professional wrestlers who entertained Queen Victoria
c) energy drinks given to children in the 1950s
d) old names for the helicopter

Question Five: What does Labour Day commemorate?
a) The creation of the New Zealand Labour Party
b) The campaign for an eight-hour working day
c) The pain of childbirth
d) The end of World War One

Question Six: In the movie ‘Up’, how did the old man get his house to fly away?
a) He created a wind tunnel and the house blew away in a storm
b) He tied tens of thousands of helium balloons to the roof and the house floated off
c) He jumped up and down so many times the house broke free and drifted to South America
d) He threw ropes around an aeroplane and the house was carried into the sky

Question Seven: Who cries ‘crocodile tears’?
a) A person who pretends to be sorry
b) A person who is extremely happy
c) A person who cares about endangered species
d) A person who has no friends or family

Question Eight: In which game could you score a triple twenty, a bull’s eye and a woody?
a) Yahtzee
b) Curling
c) Darts
d) Snooker

Question Nine: iSnack 2.0 was the name of..?
a) the robot inventor from the movie ‘Robots’
b) the cream cheese version of Vegemite
c) the secret U.S. spy base in the Wairarapa
d) the supercomputer that almost caused a nuclear war thirty years ago

Question Ten: Which cheese is ‘made’ backwards?
a) Edam
b) Feta
c) Blue-vein
d) Mozzarella