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New Zealand Quiz Questions
- Which city is nicknamed the Edinburgh of the South?
- Which New Zealand film maker and screenwriter won an Oscar for Best Director in 2003?
- Name the mountain range that extends along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island?
- Which native bird lays the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world?
- Name the largest city on New Zealand's South Island?
- Name the highest mountain in New Zealand?
- The Maori name for New Zealand is ‘Aotearoa’, what is the translation of this word?
- In 1919, which New Zealander was the first person in the world to split the atom?
- What's New Zealand's biggest city?
- The Piano, a 1993 film about a mute female piano player, was directed by which New Zealander?
- Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest in which year?
- In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to do what political first?
- A mere 1,000 years ago, which now extinct giant flightless birds inhabited the islands of New Zealand?
- Which New Zealand actor, born in 1947, starred along side Sean Connery in The Hunt For Red October?
- What are the only land mammals native to New Zealand - all the others were introduced by Maoris and Europeans?
Answers:
- Dunedin
- Peter Jackson (for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King')
- Southern Alps
- Kiwi
- Christchurch
- Mount Cook
- The land of the long white cloud?
- Ernest Rutherford
- Aukland
- Jane Campion
- 1953
- Give women the vote
- Moas
- Sam Neill
- Bats
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