10-minute Quiz | September 2025

What was the most-streamed TV show of 2024?
What year was the New Zealand five cent coin taken out of circulation? a. 2004, b. 2005, c. 2006, d. 2007.
What staple crop is known to sweat, causing heatwaves?
Meatballs – balls of whipped mince crumbed and deep-fried – are a delicacy in which New Zealand region?
True or false: Birds are dinosaurs.
What is the kupu Māori for the colour pink?
In 2001, which council introduced the first Māori constituency in local government? a. Wellington City Council, b. Hastings District Council, c. Otago Regional Council, d. Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
Which hip-hop group released ‘Fight the Power’ in 1989?
How far is the most inland point of New Zealand from the sea? a. 118km, b. 119km, c. 120km, d. 121km.
In which region did Māori timber-workers go on New Zealand’s first recorded strike in 1821?
Toussaint Louverture led which revolution in the late 1700s?
Te Rerenga Wairua / Cape Rēinga sits in which peninsula?
The ingoa Māori of which river in Te Waipounamu / the South Island means “place to play”?
What causes Swiss cheese to have holes in it?
Which New Zealand town has one of two statues of Richard Nixon in the world?
Rūaumoko is the Māori god of what?
Which 1999 science-fiction film models Plato’s Allegory of the Cave?
True or False: Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington is closer to Antarctica than Whakatū / Nelson is.
In Norse mythology, what type of creature is Jörmungandr? a. Canine, b. Serpent, c. Rodent, d. Bird.
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
Which suburb in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland serves as the setting for many of Maurice Gee’s novels? a. Henderson, b. Botany, c. Mt Eden, d. Papakura.
Which iconic New Zealand building has a cameo in A Minecraft Movie?
Which elements spell out “Union” with their symbols from the periodic table?
Where was the first instant coffee product invented? a. Waihōpai / Invercargill. b. Maruawai / Gore. c. Tāhuna / Queenstown. d. Kawatiri / Westport.
What is the standard unit for measuring pressure?

Answers

Bluey.
c. 2006.
Corn.
Te Matau-a-Māui / Hawke’s Bay.
True. Birds first evolved approximately 150 million years ago, as part of the theropod group of dinosaurs.
Māwhero.
d. Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
Public Enemy.
b. 119km – this point is near Cromwell in Central Otago.
Pēwhairangi / The Bay of Islands.
The Haitian Revolution.
Aupōuri Peninsula.
Ōtākaro / Avon River.
Bacteria. Propionibacterium is added during the cheesemaking process.
Wakefield, in Whakatū / Nelson.
Earthquakes and volcanoes.
The Matrix.
True. Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington is positioned further south than Whakatū / Nelson.
b. Serpent.
Ouagadougou.
a. Henderson.
The Huntly Power Station.
Uranium (U), nickel (Ni), oxygen (O) and nitrogen (N).
a. Waihōpai / Invercargill – invented by David Strang.
Pascal (Pa).