Interesting NZ facts

National Reserves Make Up 30 Percent Of The Country 

• True

• False

New Zealand Has A Hill With The World’s Longest Name 

• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahi

• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Wellington Is The Most Southerly Capital In The World

• True

• False

New Zealand Pioneered Women’s Suffrage. This means that...

• New Zealand women organised to gain the right to travel by train.

• New Zealand women organised to gain the right to fair pay.

• New Zealand women organised to gain the right to vote.

• New Zealand women organised to gain the right to as many children as she wanted.

Dunedin Has The World’s Steepest Residential Street

• False

• True, Baldwin St.

• True, St Baldwin St

• False, Australia.

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films were filmed in New Zealand. This leads many book and film enthusiasts to fly down to the country. Tourism related to the movies creates 33 million dollars of revenue every year.

• True

• False

There Are Three National Languages

• English and Maori

• English, Maori and Sign language

The Blue Lake Has The Clearest Water In The World.

This lake is in what region /rohe?

• Nelson

• Canterbury

• Waikato

• Auckland

New Zealand has more golf courses per capita than anywhere else in the world.

• False

• True

The first commercial bungee jump was made by AJ Hackett on the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown back in ____.

• 1970

• 1978

• 1980

• 1988