NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 18, 2016

Q: After the lid to a tank was left slightly ajar at the National Aquarium in New Zealand, a well-loved octopus named Inky squeezed out, slid across the floor and crawled through a 6-inch drain pipe to the sea. Where is New Zealand?

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Q: The New Zealand islands are located in which body of water?

A. South Atlantic Ocean

B. Southern Indian Ocean

C. South Pacific Ocean

D. Southern Ocean

C. The islands of New Zealand are in the South Pacific. But the nation also claims a section of the Antarctica continent which is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.

Q: The National Aquarium is in Napier on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is about 200 miles northeast of the nation's capital . . .

A. Auckland

B. Canberra

C. Sydney

D. Wellington

D. The city takes its name from the first Duke of Wellington, the British general who helped defeat France's Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. The British colonized the islands in the middle of the 1800's.

Q: What is the largest city in New Zealand?

A. Auckland

B. Canberra

C. Sydney

D. Wellington

A. Auckland is located farther north on the North Island and has a population of nearly 1.5 million people compared with Wellington's nearly 400,000 residents. Canberra is capital and Sydney the largest city of Australia, another former British colony that is about 900 miles west of New Zealand.

Q: Who settled New Zealand about 600 years before the arrival of the British?

A. Malays

B. Maori

C. Mayans

D. Minoans

B. The Maori are a Polynesian people who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages at some time between 1250 and 1300. Remote New Zealand was one of the last major landmasses settled by humans.