Sunday, 22 February 2009

Week 4 Homework

Q1)B
Q2)A
Q3)D
Q4)B
Q5)C
Q6)B
Q7)B
Q8)C
Q9)A
Q10)B

1 comment:

Trish Rankin said...

Boy that was super quick!!
Here are the answers...You only scored 6/10...i have to say that I would expect more from you...


Question One: b (The ‘Ka Mate’ haka tells the story of Te Rauparaha’s escape from a war party. He jumped in a kumara pit and a woman sat on top of it to hide him. In a Treaty settlement last week, the Government acknowledged the significance of the haka to the Ngati Toa iwi.)

Question Two: a (Last week, an American communications satellite crashed into a Russian satellite.)

Question Three: d (In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi uses a Jedi mind trick on stormtroopers and says “These are not the droids you’re looking for”.)

Question Four: b (Smoke from the Australian bushfires caused a ‘strange orange glow’ in the Queenstown sky last week. The fires have claimed more than 180 lives. New Zealand has sent firefighters to Victoria to help out.)

Question Five: d (There is no minimum hourly wage for people under 16 years of age.)

Question Six: c (The only way vampires can enter your house is if you invite them in.)

Question Seven: b (The Tuatara’s only defence mechanism is to stand still. This tactic doesn’t work against rats.)

Question Eight: a (Palaeontologists have dug up more than 7,000 dinosaur bones in Zhucheng City in China’s Shandong province. Zhucheng is now known as ‘Dinosaur City’.)

Question Nine: a (A ‘tongue in cheek’ comment is not meant to be taken seriously.)

Question Ten: c (‘Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid’ is a famous painting by Salvador Dali.)