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Eight friendly questions about the essentials of New Zealand, far away in the South Pacific. No expert knowledge needed: everyone can join in, young and old.
Just touched down 0–3 · Green-hill explorer 4–6 · Practically a New Zealander 7–8
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Auckland is the biggest city, but Wellington has been the capital since 1865. Strong winds blow through it so often that it is nicknamed Windy Wellington, and one part of its parliament is a round building that everyone calls the Beehive because of its shape.
Photo: russellstreet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Today there are roughly four or five sheep for every person in New Zealand, but that is nothing compared with the past. In 1982, at the peak, the country had about 70 million sheep: more than 20 for every New Zealander.
Photo: Experience Mid Canterbury, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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The films were shot all over the country, and the hobbit village of Hobbiton was built on a real sheep farm near the town of Matamata. Visitors can still walk past 44 little hobbit holes, and for the films the crew even put up an oak tree above Bilbo's home, covered in artificial leaves.
Photo: Harsh.gavhane, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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By 1905 the team played all in black apart from a silver fern on the chest, and that is where its nickname comes from: the All Blacks. The idea caught on, so the women's rugby team is called the Black Ferns and the cricket team the Black Caps.
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This greeting is called the hongi, and the foreheads often touch as well. It stands for sharing the ha, the breath of life, and some groups on the east coast of the North Island press noses twice: once for breathing in and once for breathing out.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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It was named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured New Zealand and Australia in the 1920s. The crisp meringue with a soft, marshmallow-like middle is often topped with cream and fruit, and the two countries have argued for many years about which of them made it first.
Photo: Hazel Fowler, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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These glowworms live only in New Zealand and are really the young of a small fly called a fungus gnat. Each one hangs down as many as 30 sticky silk threads and uses its blue-green glow to lure insects into them, like a tiny angler with shining fishing lines.
Photo: Michael Willison, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.
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The kiwi is about the size of a chicken, yet it lays an egg about six times bigger than a chicken's. It is the only bird with nostrils at the very tip of its beak, which it uses to sniff out worms in the soil, and New Zealanders are so fond of it that they call themselves Kiwis.
Photo: Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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