KIWI KWIZ 2011
WEEK 38
Question One: Why did an Auckland school ban Harry Potter books in 2000?
a) Hundreds of students got hurt playing Quidditch
b) English teachers thought the stories were poorly written
c) Students spent all their time reading instead of doing homework
d) The school thought the books promoted witchcraft
Question Two: Which rare creature has been found at the top of the South Island?
a) A red and black weta that spits fire
b) A giant white snail that eats earthworms
c) A little spotted kiwi with two beaks
d) A native bat that lives off the blood of rabbits
Question Three: What is the mark of Zorro?
a) A purple rose
b) A yellow bandana
c) The question mark
d) The letter ‘Z’
Question Four: In the Waikato, there are..?
a) one million rivers
b) one million pensioners
c) one million dairy cows
d) one million takahe
Question Five: How do you christen a ship?
a) By smashing a bottle of champagne across her bow
b) By throwing her captain into the sea
c) By tossing gold coins to the crew
d) By filling the lifejackets with sand
Question Six: What was New Zealand’s most watched television event of the year?
a) TV 3’s election night coverage
b) The 5,000th episode of Shortland Street
c) TV One’s live footage of Kate and William’s wedding
d) The Rugby World Cup final
Question Seven: If you have a ‘bird’s eye view’, you are..?
a) looking up at the sky
b) looking down on the world
c) looking for the early worm
d) looking for a place to call home
Question Eight: What was Sir Peter Blake’s last adventure?
a) Climbing in the Himalayas to look for the abominable snowman
b) Sailing up the Amazon to raise awareness of environmental issues
c) Tramping through the Nicaraguan forest to find a cure for malaria
d) Running across the Great Sandy Desert to raise money for Daffodil Day
Question Nine: What is the most common injury for ballet dancers?
a) Water on the knee
b) Hamstring tear
c) Ankle sprain
d) Ingrown toenail
Question Ten: To reduce the workload for guards, a prison in South Korea is..?
a) using robot prison wardens
b) giving prisoners the keys to their cells
c) letting prisoners supervise each other
d) micro-chipping every prisoner with a locator beaconKIWI KWIZ 2011
WEEK 37
Question One: Why did Phil Goff ring John Key on Saturday night?
a) To make a crank call
b) To accuse his rival of electoral fraud
c) To ask for a ministerial role in the next parliament
d) To congratulate the Prime Minister on his win in the election
Question Two: Masterton’s new sewage ponds will contain..?
a) 80 drinking fountains for members of the public
b) 8,000 unsold copies of Peter Jackson’s autobiography
c) 80,000 eels from the town’s old sewage ponds
d) 8 million litres of sewage from Wellington
Question Three: At a powhiri, who are the manuhiri?
a) The visitors
b) The children
c) The hosts
d) The women
Question Four: What is on a 1,700 kilometre trip to the bottom of the South Island?
a) Happy Feet’s mother
b) New Zealand’s first road-legal solar-powered car
c) A busload of tourists that got lost on the way to the Rugby World Cup Final
d) The only copy of the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi
Question Five: Why have three top softballers quit the New Zealand Black Sox?
a) They want to play for Australia in the 2013 World Champs
b) Softball New Zealand made them buy their own bats
c) They think ‘Black Sox’ is an embarrassing name
d) To pursue careers in baseball
Question Six: What happened to the man who received the first human heart transplant?
a) He lived to be 100
b) He died 18 days after the operation
c) His personality changed and he became a bank robber
d) He won a bronze medal at the next Olympic Games
Question Seven: Who uses a dumbbell?
a) A door-to-door salesman
b) A rocket scientist
c) A weightlifter
d) A teacher
Question Eight: The Jesus Christ Lizard got its name because..?
a) it can turn water into wine
b) it spends 40 days and 40 nights in the desert
c) it appears to walk on water
d) it heals other lizards
Question Nine: What happened on Black Tuesday 1987?
a) The New Zealand stock market collapsed
b) Bush fires ravaged the West Coast
c) New Zealand went nuclear-free
d) New Zealand joined the United Nations
Question Ten: What can destroy Superman?
a) The common cold
b) A kiss from a woman
c) A glass of trim milk
d) Green kryptonite
KIWI KWIZ 2011
WEEK 36
Question One: How did National and ACT seal their deal for the upcoming election?
a) With a tandem bike ride around Eden Park
b) With a duet in a Karaoke Bar
c) With a cup of tea in a café
d) With a game of tennis in the Beehive
Question Two: What is happening onboard the Rena?
a) Salvagers are removing the containers one at a time
b) Demolition crews are laying dynamite and preparing to blow her up
c) Locals are filling their boats with stolen booty
d) Sharks are taking over the starboard side
Question Three: According to the U.S. Government,.?
a) New Zealand is a member of the Axis of Evil
b) pizza is a vegetable
c) extra-terrestrials are living in Antarctica
d) tobacco is harmless
Question Four: Why did Australia refuse to play New Zealand in test cricket in the 1950s?
a) The Australians thought the New Zealanders weren’t good enough
b) Australia’s cricketers were scared of New Zealand’s fast bowlers
c) The New Zealand team wanted to use oversized cricket bats
d) The New Zealanders insisted on doing a haka before every test
Question Five: If it is 10 o’clock in Whangarei, where in New Zealand is it 10:45?
a) Invercargill
b) On a ferry in Cook Strait
c) The Chatham Islands
d) Cape Reinga
Question Six: This weekend, voters will be asked if they want to keep MMP. What does MMP stand for?
a) Many More Politicians
b) Maori Members of Parliament
c) Middle Management Partners
d) Mixed Member Proportional
Question Seven: If you are on a hopeless quest, you have been sent on..?
a) a trip down memory lane
b) an Easter egg hunt
c) a wild goose chase
d) the search for New Zealand’s Next Top Model
Question Eight: Traditionally, a bride on her wedding day must wear..?
a) something borrowed
b) something stolen
c) something silver
d) something expensive
Question Nine: What are called thongs in Australia and flip-flops in the U.S.A?
a) Sunglasses
b) Mosquitoes
c) Skateboards
d) Jandals
Question Ten: As legend has it, how did the thistle save Scotland?
a) English soldiers went blind after drinking a brew of thistles
b) Invading Vikings stepped on thistles and their screams alerted the Scots
c) Robert the Bruce survived months in a cave by eating dried thistles
d) Julius Caesar cancelled plans to invade because he cut himself on a thistle
KIWI KWIZ 2011
WEEK 34
Question One: If you’re hearing ‘Taranaki violins’, you’re listening to..?
a) gas escaping from the Maui pipeline
b) the sound of cowbells
c) the zap, zap, zap of electric fences
d) the conversations of sheep
Question Two: Who is camping in Wellington’s Civic Square, Dunedin’s Octagon and Auckland’s Aotea Square?
a) Die-hards waiting for another All Blacks’ parade
b) International students on their school camps
c) Members of the world-wide Occupy Movement
d) Politicians looking for votes in this month’s election
Question Three: If you shuck an oyster, you have..?
a) swallowed it whole
b) spat it out
c) returned it to the sea
d) opened its shell
Question Four: What does a nurse have to do to get the Florence Nightingale Medal?
a) Work in a war-zone
b) Marry a doctor
c) Do 500 night shifts
d) Appear on Shortland Street five times
Question Five: In softball, what usually happens when a pitch hits the batter?
a) The pitcher is sent off
b) The batter walks to first base
c) The game is called off
d) The batting team gets an automatic home run
Question Six: Who is next in line for the British throne?
a) Prince William
b) Prince Charming
c) Prince Charles
d) Prince Harry
Question Seven: What will zip past the Earth and the Moon on Tuesday?
a) The Sun
b) The Air New Zealand space jet
c) Mars and Venus
d) A large asteroid
Question Eight: Why did the little mermaid give up her life in the sea?
a) To gain a human soul and the love of her prince
b) To teach humans how to care for each other
c) To free her sisters from a witch’s curse
d) To protect her family from the headless fisherman
Question Nine: In New Zealand schools, what used to be known as the ‘Three Rs’?
a) Roll-call, Reading and Rest
b) Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
c) Rugby, Relaxation and Reading
d) Reading, Reading and more Reading
Question Ten: Last week, Russia, India and the Philippines claimed to be..?
a) New Zealand’s new best friend
b) the birthplace of the world’s seven billionth person
c) the home of the first ever humans
d) the nation that invented the wheel
