, 2 September 2020
Kia ora! Here’s a quiz for our friends across the ditch. Have you got the knowledge to get 5/5?
Dr Keith Vivian Alexander invented the springfree trampoline.
Ernest Rutherford was known as the father of nuclear physics. Element 104 – rutherfordium – is named after him.
Zealandia, also known as Te Riu-a-Māui, was labelled a continent by a team of scientists in 2017, even though 94% of it is under the ocean.
The kakapo is the only species of flightless parrot in the world.
Geothermal energy comes from hot rocks underground, and can often be found near volcanoes.
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
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7 September, 2020 at 8:58 am
hi that was hard
7 September, 2020 at 11:46 am
Sorry about that! It took a bit of work to get five good New Zealand questions, so some of them were a bit harder than I wanted them to be.