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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! "#$%&!"'%%#(!)*+,-$'.,!!/0/0!1+2+%!3! ! 4*+,5#&! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! What to do for students 1 You may work on your own or with someone else, and your teacher or someone else can help you. 2 Answer the questions. 3 There are usually five questions each day. Each question has a dollar value. Each day’s questions total $100 in value. 4 When you have answered the questions, your teacher will give you the answers. 5 If you are right, you will get the dollar value for each question. You then you can work out how many dollars you have earned for the day. 6 Add the number of dollars you have earned each day in the Daily Dollar questions and get a total for the week. You can compare your total for the week with others in your class. 7 Perhaps your teacher may award a prize for the highest total for the week! 8 Good luck! Tuesday New Zealand Olympians Question 1 ($20) Yvette Corlette (nee Williams) won the first New Zealand women's Olympic Gold medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1956 in the long jump. She set a world record of 6.24 m. Two years later in Gisborne she set a new world record, which was 4 cm longer. What was the distance, in metres, of the new record? Question 2 ($20) Lorraine Moller competed in her first Olympic games in Los Angeles in 1984. She competed again in Seoul in 1988. She won a Bronze medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. She finally competed in Atlanta in 1996. How many years was her last Olympic appearance after her first? Question 3 ($20) Barbara Kendall was raised in the Auckland suburb of Bucklands Beach and attended Macleans College in its early years. Barbara won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, a silver medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2004. She also competed in Athens in 2000 and Beijing in 2008 gaining fifth and sixth places respectively. She was the first woman to compete at five Olympic games. Barbara has a brother who has also won an Olympic Gold medal, what is his name?! Question 4 ($20) Caroline Meyer, better known under her maiden name Caroline Evers-Swindell, was a New Zealand rower. She won gold medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2004 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in the women's double sculls. Her identical twin sister, Georgina, partnered her in these events. How many metres did Caroline and Georgina race altogether in their 2004 and 2008 rowing finals in the Sydney and Beijing Olympics? Question 5 ($20) Valerie Adams first met former javelin thrower Kirsten Hellier in 1998. Kirsten coached Valerie for 11 years. Valerie first showed great promise at the World Youth Championships in 2001 with a throw of 16.87 m. Valerie won gold in the shot put at both the Beijing and London Olympics. Her personal best outdoor throw is 21.24 m, which she achieved in South Korea in 2011. What is the difference, in centimetres, between her World Youth Championships throw in 2001 and her personal best which she achieved in 2011? .

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