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The Weekly Quiz

With a Weekly Quiz subscription, you get a professionally designed current events quiz for each week of the school year. It helps students to keep up-to-date with current events and general knowledge in a safe way and contains visual material that leads to many class discussions about society and the real world.

Apart from running it as a class quiz, some schools also use it for research starters, team challenges, homework or as a newsletter competition. See the testimonials below for more examples, or look at the sample quiz to think how it could be used with your learners.

Our Weekly Quiz service has been running for over a decade and is popular in hundreds of schools across New Zealand.
It’s suitable for students from Year 5 to Year 13.

What’s included in the Weekly Quiz?

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Each week the quiz consists of twenty international and New Zealand questions that help learners understand the news and the world around them. Questions cover politics, events, issues, discoveries, sport, entertainment, knowledge etc.

We focus on news items that are safe for the classroom, avoiding violent crime and inappropriate content for the classroom. Our quizzes are used in a wide variety of state and private schools.

There are five visual questions each week that include people, places, events, flags etc

The Multi-choice, True/False and Short Answer questions make it easy for students to complete and engage in the quiz. The questions formats lead to straight-forward answers and limit confusion or disagreement.

Some background information is provided with each answer to outline the news story and what has happened. Even if the teacher hasn’t heard the story themselves, they can use the background information to provide context to the students.

Depending on the subscription level you choose,
the quiz can be provided as:
– a printable worksheet (PDF)
– a classroom presentation (Powerpoint)
– an online quiz completed on individual or group devices (Interactive using the Socrative platform)

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Just thought I’d let you know my class is loving doing the quizzes each week. Had parent meetings last night and they commented on how the children now watch the news and read the papers. They were shocked!
Luella Donaldson
Luella DonaldsonTotara Grove School
Keep the quizzes coming. I have a running total on the go with my classes and boy oh boy, the tension is building for the end of term score!
Ryan Gaffaney
Ryan GaffaneySt John's College
Thank you for providing such a wonderful quiz each week. My Year 9 class have really enjoyed doing them. We’ve all learnt things that we didn’t know, and some of the questions have sparked some great discussions. It’s also a great way to keep the students interested in what is happening in our nation and around the world. Keep up the great work!
Sam Hughes
Sam HughesPukekohe Christian School
Thanks for the current events quiz. At last I can use current events in my classroom in an organised and controlled way without having to spend ages preparing it. We can expand or condense the quiz as much as time allows in any week.
Kay Vincent
Kay VincentThe Gardens School
I would like to let you know how much we have enjoyed your quizzes. I download them every Monday and put a copy in the staffroom and on our staff intranet. The teachers are using the quizzes in a variety of ways, e.g chopping them up and matching the answers to the questions, research groups etc and we put one question a week in our newsletter with the answer the following week. Really a great resource, well done and Thanks!
Melody Wilson
Melody WilsonKonini School
I organise the class into teams of 4 to take the quiz on the class TV. Teams which achieve 20/20 get a prize (this is very difficult to achieve and highly prized). As a class, we can spend a long time discussing our opinions about what is happening in the news. I have also run a spelling programme off the quiz too. Thanks for your quiz. Just love it and so do my students.
Wendy Dumée
Wendy Dumée Tauranga Intermediate School
We have used the Current Events quiz in junior SST for several years. It’s so easy to roll it out each week, and it’s great for relief lessons. We’ve used all the versions – pdf, slideshow and Socrative quiz. Every week there is something to spark discussion in class.
Nigel Cato
Nigel CatoBirkenhead College
Thank you for the weekly quiz, delivered without fail each Sunday. The quiz is very popular. My Year 7 class in particular have enjoyed the activity this year. I send a copy home on Monday. The idea is that families do this at home. I then have group competitions on a Friday.
Andre Van Den Bergh
Andre Van Den BerghKristin School
Although our students are Te Reo speakers and have no formal English language background, they have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of completing the Weekly Quiz every week. I use the quiz to encourage the reading & understanding of English, and individual or pair researching of answers. Their improvement and speed in understanding and answering the questions, from the beginning of the year has been massive.
Gayle Murray
Gayle MurrayTe Wharekura o Te Rau Aroha
(continued...) It also gave my students more awareness of the world outside their own lives within the Community. They began to take notice of what was happening around the world.

The students love it and it's become very competitive. I now use it with my seniors, as they became quite envious of the Year 9 & 10 class. During Covid lockdown, the Weekly Quiz was the only topic everyone completed.
Gayle Murray
Gayle MurrayTe Wharekura o Te Rau Aroha
Thank you for this wonderful invention – the current events quiz. It is brilliant and we have not missed a week. I use it with my IWB so we don’t even need to destroy the rainforest to use it. Thanks again and looking forward to next term!!
Connie Morris
Connie MorrisSt Joseph's Primary
My gifted students have loved the challenge of "different" homework. I set it as optional and am pleasantly surprised how many students do it. Others like it as well. Great for self esteem that they think they are doing the ‘hard’ work!
St Declan's Penshurst
My children and their families are loving it. My class take it home as a weekly challenge which they work on as a family. A great way to get the children interested in current affairs.
St Thomas' School

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Standard

2024 Weekly Quiz Subscription
$ 49 + gst
  • PDF Version only
  • Price covers your school for the whole
    2024 school year
  • Quiz sent each week of the school year
  • Can be used by any staff within your school
  • Only sent to one staff email
    address
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2024 Weekly Quiz Subscription
$ 79 + gst
  • PDF & Powerpoint Versions
  • Price covers your school for the whole
    2024 school year
  • Quiz sent each week of the school year
  • Can be used by any staff within your school
  • Can add up to 8 additional staff email addresses
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Platinum

2024 Weekly Quiz Subscription
$ 99 + gst
  • PDF & Powerpoint and Interactive Versions
  • Price covers your school for the whole
    2024 school year
  • Quiz sent each week of the school year
  • Can be used by any staff within your school
  • Can add up to 20 additional staff email addresses
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Example Quiz

PDF Format
28 JUN 2021

Powerpoint Format
28 JUN 2021

Interactive Format
28 JUN 2021

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21/06/21 Answers
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Engaging for Students

Interesting and topical questions from New Zealand and around the world

Convenient for Teachers

Easily printed or presented to class. Background information about each question

Digital Classrooms

Interactive format available for use in Digital and BYOD environments