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QUIZ: April Double crosses – Easter and Anzac Day in Ōtautahi

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Quiz: April Double crosses – Easter and Anzac Day in Ōtautahi.

Try our local history quiz and see what you know about Christchurch commemoration, churches and cemeteries.

Who wrote the book “To the memory: New Zealand’s war memorials”?
- Geoffrey Rice
- Gordon Ogilvie
- Jock Phillips
- David Attenborough
There are a number of cemeteries in Christchurch. Which of the Council-managed cemeteries below are historic/ non-active?
- Barbadoes St Cemetery
- Linwood Cemetery
- Sydenham Cemetery
- Bromley Cemetery
Memorial Avenue, an extension of Fendalton Rd, was so named in tribute to those who died in World War Two (1939-1945). What was Memorial Ave previously called?
- Fendalton Avenue
- West Road
- Burnside Road
- Fendaltown Avenue
What does “Anzac” stand for?
- The Australian and New Zealand Artillery Company
- The Army and Navy, Zealand and Australia Corps
- The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
- The Australian and New Zealand Armed Corps
What is the subject of the book “Anzac girls” by Peter Rees that became an Australian TV series first screening in 2014?
- Australian nurses in WWI
- Australian and New Zealand Nurses in WWI
- British nurses in WW1 and WWII
- Nursing services in New Zealand
What information does Christchurch City Libraries’ unique Church Records hold?
- Baptisms, marriages & burials in churches in Christchurch
- Baptisms in churches in Christchurch
- Marriages for New Zealand churches
- Baptisms and burials in churches in Christchurch
What does the Bridge of Remembrance commemorate?
- The servicemen and women of two World Wars and subsequent conflicts in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, and Vietnam.
- War and peace in New Zealand
- The end of WWI
- Armistice Day
The Citizen’s war memorial is in Cathedral Square. Who was the Christchurch sculptor who modelled the figures?
- William Trethewey
- Richard Gross
- Francis Sturrock
- Margaret Butler
Anzac Drive in the Christchurch suburb of Burwood was opened in which year?
- 1945
- 1950
- 1980
- 2000
Anzac Day is 25 April each year. Why was this date chosen?
- It is the date of Orthodox Palm Sunday
- It fits between Easter and Labour Day
- It is the date of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.
- It was the day a New Zealand civilian surgical team arrived in Vietnam – the start of New Zealand’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
The Christchurch Hospital Nurses Memorial chapel is significant because…
- As far as can be ascertained, it is the only purpose-built, hospital chapel which commemorates nurses who died in the Great War, in the world
- It is New Zealand’s only memorial chapel to women who died in any war or the 1918 influenza epidemic
- It was New Zealand’s first hospital chapel
- It is a repository of memorials to local, national and internationally known medical men and women
- It is an architecturally significant building with a late Gothic Revival structure and Arts & Crafts Movement-inspired interior that incorporates significant works of art, including stained glass windows by Veronica Whall.
- All of the above
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