Famous Small Towns in New Zealand

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1. What is the name of a Northland town that has the oldest store in New Zealand and the oldest house in New Zealand next door to each other and is also famous for growing oranges? Answer: (One Word)

2. In what town was the Tiriti O ________ signed? Answer: (One Word)

3. What is the name of the coastal Otago town that shares its fame with the Plunket movement started in Dunedin on 14 May 1907 by a local town resident Truby King? Abbortsford MacAndrews Bay Karitane Ravinsbourne

4. What town is the only place in the world where you can find a hot natural thermal soda water geyser, AND the oldest pipe organ in the Southern Hemisphere? Taupo Whakarewarewa Ngawha Te Aroha

5. What is the name of a seaside town infamous for a mass murder a few years back? Also a hot spot centered around an aluminium smelter 'greenie' debate in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Parua Bay Tairoa Heads Kohu Kohu Aramoana

6. I am a famous small town in the South Island and one of the famous things about me is Fred and Myrtle Flutey's world famous Paua Shell House. What is my name? Ruatoria Bluff Taranaki Kaikoura

7. Waikikamukau is a famous town that most New Zealanders have heard of but never visited. Why? There is no such place. It is deep in the Coromandel and can only be reached by helicopter. It is located in the New Zealand territory of Antarctica. It is a small town on Stewart Island.

8. What is the name of a small town in the far north where a song was written about a local dolphin in 1956 that shares its name with this town? Opowai Opomoana Opokaranga Opononi

9. A famous New Zealand soft drink soda shares its name with this town. What is the name? Answer: (one word.)

10. A famous natural thermal water theme park 20 minutes north of Auckland is named for what town? Orewa Wairewa Waiwera Wellsford