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WorksheetsInteresting NZ facts
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
There is a law that states every high school in New Zealand may hold one pound of uranium and one pound of thorium, for conducting nuclear experiments. But, they will be fined $________should there be a nuclear explosion.
$500,000
$700,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
Bats are the only native land mammals in the country.
The rest were introduced by Maori and European.
False
True
Aotearoa has the highest animal to humans ratio in the world at 5%.
True
False
No matter where you are in New Zealand, you’ll never be more than ___ km from the seaside.
120km
128km
134km
142km
NZ has the 2nd tallest Man-made Structure in the Southern Hemisphere
True
False
On the 2001 New Zealand census, 53,715 people listed their religion as “Jedi.”
That was more than the amount of _________ and ______ in the country.
Jewish and Christian
Catholic and Protestants
Buddists and Hindus
Sikhism and Muslim
In 1990, New Zealand became the first country in the modern world to appoint an Official National Wizard. He resides in...
Auckland
Christchurch
Wellington
Dunedin
About one-third of the country is protected national parks. Which example is not a national park.
Fiordland
Abel Tasman
Tongariro
Marlborough
The first inhabited island to receive the sun is Pitt Island, which is part of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. But the first mainland city to welcome the sun is ________.
Gisborne
Blenheim
Nelson
Christchurch
In 2008, TripAdvisor ranked Milford Sound as the number one travel destination in the world, according to an international survey.
False
True
