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Famous New Zealanders  

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1. When did Jean Batten first fly across the Atlantic, from Britain to Australia?

 

1. a) 8th April, 1930
2. b) 4th November, 1991 
3. c) 8th May, 1934  
4. d) Last Year

 

2. What was the name of the plane that Batten flew from Britain to Darwin? 

 

1. a) Gipsy Queen       b) Gipsy Moth
2. c) Percival Gull     d) Percival Moth

 

3. How many times did Batten have to land, and take-off on her flight?

 

1. a) 9         b) 14
2. c) 25 d)  8

 

4. Explain the causes for Batten’s first two failed attempts to fly across the Atlantic?

 

→ landed in Syria .

→then crashed again

 

5. True or False: Ernest Rutherford was the first person to climb Mt Everest.

 

1. a) True b) False

 

Polynesian Explorers
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1. When, and where was Tupaia born?

a) Around 1825 in Rā‘iātea
b) Around 1725 in New Zealand
c) Around 1825 in New Zealand
d) Around 1725 in Rā‘iātea

2. Rā‘iātea is a part of which larger group of islands?

a) Samoa b) Tahiti
c) Rapa Nui d) Micronesia

3. What was the name of the British official sent to secure British rule over NZ?

a) William Johnson b) Abel Tasman
c) William Hobson d) Captain James Cook

4. Only about 20 of the painted hoe that were given to Captain Cook in 1769 by Māori survive.

a) True b) False

5. Describe the role that Tupaia had on board the Endeavour – what did he do on Captain Cook’s ship?

→navigator, translator and helper.

6.
WORD
DEFINITION
YOUR OWN SENTENCE
interpreter
It means translator or decipherer
Tupuia was captain cook translator
diplomat
It means some kind of ambassador or a peace maker
Tupuia and James Cook were ambassadors to their crew members .
indigenous
A native or a Aborinalgal being
Tupuia was one of the Aborinalgals of his land.

Treaty of Waitangi 

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1. When did Maori first arrive in Aotearoa, New Zealand?

 

1. a) Between 1150 & 1200AD
2. b) Between 1250 & 1350AD 
3. c) Between 1250 & 1300AD  
4. d) Last Year

 

2. In the 1790’s Pakeha arrived in NZ to do what? 

 

1. a) Hunt Moa        b) Start families
2. c) Hunt whale & seals       d) Escape prison sentences

 

3. What was the name of the British official sent to secure British rule over NZ?

 

1. a) William Johnson           b) Abel Tasman
2. c) William Hobson d) Captain James Cook

 

4. There were two things that Maori chiefs Hone Heke Pokai and Tamati Waka Nene thought signing the treaty would help accomplish. What were they?

 

→stop war and

→making trading more fair and easier with the pakeha and the maori

 

5. True or False: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty of Waitangi are the exact same.

 

1. a) True b) False

 

WORD	DEFINITION	YOUR OWN SENTENCE
colonisation	When a country takes over another and sends other people to live there.	The Maori and British Crown Have had a colonisation.
treaty	A contract between Leaders and means A safety protection  contract	The Maori and the British Crown have signed the Treaty.
sovereignty	It means when a country wants to take another country and will.	The British has Sovereignty taken over new zealand.

 

8. When the treaty was signed William Hobson said out loud “He iwi

tahi tātou.” (“We are one people.”)

What do you think he meant by this?

 

→ he meant that the British Crown and the Maori had become one.

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