Homework week 2

Research Quiz ON the General Election

1. The name of the present Prime Minister is Helen Clark

2. The name of the present Deputy Prime Minister is Michael Cullen

3. The name of the present Governor-General is Anand Satyanand

4. Elections are held every 3 years.

5 MP stands for Member of Parliament

6. There are 121 MP in the House of Representitives.

7. The name of the present leader if the Opposition is John Keys

8. To be allowed to vote you have to be 18 years and over

9. Government of the people of the people by the people is know as Democracy

10. For the Elections, the map of NZ is divided into Electorates

11. Voting were nobody can see for whom you vote is called Ballot

12. The building housing minister’s offices is called the Beehive

13. There will be 50 list MPs elected at the next election.

14. Ther are 63 generral eletorates.

15. There are 7 Maori eletorates.

16. The next parliament elected will be 49 in NZ.

17. to Qualify for list MP, a party must win at least 5% of all the party votes…

18. or a party must win at least 1 electorate seat.

19 The number of Cabinet Ministers is

20. The name of the Head State is Queen

21. The Beehive is 72 metres high.

22. during the sittng time, Parliament sits for………………..days a week.

23. The year that NZ women got the right to vote was 1893

24. The name of the first eleted female PM was Jinny Shipley

25. The day set aside for election is always a Saturday

26. MMP stands for Mixed Member Proportional

27. Pariament first meet in 1854 in what is now the city of Auckland

28. The old word Parliament ment to

29. An envelope to an MP doesn’t need a Stamp

30. Voters have 2 votes in the election.