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32 tests
Test 01Not started
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    Charles Heaphy and the settlement of New Zealand

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    Roller coaster: the great fairground attraction

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    Look — Who was talking

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Test 02Not started
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    The History of the Chicken

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    A study of introvert and extrovert characters

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    Seeing the colour of sounds, hearing the colour of numbers

60 minStart test
Test 03Not started
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    Walking With Dinosaurs

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    New Technology in New Zealand's Health Service

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    The Voynich Manuscript

60 minStart test
Test 04Not started
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    Dolls Through the Ages

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    The power of music

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    Yawning

60 minStart test
Test 05Not started
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    General Information

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    Bird Migration

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    Travelling Plants

60 minStart test
Test 06Not started
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    The history of the guitar

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    Playing Soccer

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    Jean Piaget 1896-1980

60 minStart test
Test 07Not started
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    The Importance of Business Cards

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    The Importance of Law

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    The Voynich Manuscript

60 minStart test
Test 08Not started
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    Sorry-who are you?

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    Learning from the Romans

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    Antarctic research

60 minStart test
Test 09Not started
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    Dirty river but clean water

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    Memory and Age

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    Save Endangered Language

60 minStart test
Test 10Not started
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    Rubber

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    The Origin and Development of Applause

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    The Significant Role of Mother Tongue in Education

60 minStart test
Test 11Not started
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    SOSUS: Listening to the Ocean

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    Western Immigration of Canada

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    Communication in science

60 minStart test
Test 12Not started
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    The “Extinct” Grass in Britain

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    The reconstruction of community in Talbot Park, Auckland

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

60 minStart test
Test 13Not started
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    The development of plastics

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    The Constant Evolution of the Humble Tomato

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    Research into the effects of different teaching styles

60 minStart test
Test 14Not started
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    Traditional Maori Medicine

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    The purpose of facial expressions

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    Living Dunes

60 minStart test
Test 15Not started
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    William Gilbert and Magnetism

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    Is Graffiti Art or Crime?

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    Learning to be bilingual

60 minStart test
Test 16Not started
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    The last man who knew everything

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    The fashion industry

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    How a prehistoric predator took to the skies

60 minStart test
Test 17Not started
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    The Blockbuster Phenomenon: a new museum trend

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    The dingo debate

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    Some views on the use of headphones

60 minStart test
Test 18Not started
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    Ambergris - what is it and where does it come from?

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    Why don't we sleep?

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    Neanderthal Technology

60 minStart test
Test 19Not started
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    Carnivorous plant

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    Detection of a Meteorite Lake

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    Age-proofing our brains

60 minStart test
Test 20Not started
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    The Whale Goes to Court

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    The Future of Food Packaging

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    Memory Champions … or just good at tricks

60 minStart test
Test 21Not started
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    The history of the pencil

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    The Role of Mothers in the Origins of Music

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    The strange world of sight

60 minStart test
Test 22Not started
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    Maori Fish Hooks

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    Multi-tasking and the brain

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    The peopling of Patagonia

60 minStart test
Test 23Not started
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    Reef Fish Study

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    Will Eating Less Make You Live Longer?

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    Saving the Skink

60 minStart test
Test 24Not started
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    Katherine Mansfield

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    Growing more for less

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    What makes a musical expert?

60 minStart test
Test 25Not started
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    The History of Tea

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    Investment in shares versus investment in other assets - which gives the greater gain?

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    A closer examination of a study on verbal and non-verbal messages

60 minStart test
Test 26Not started
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    The Origins of Weather Forecasting

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    How do plants talk to each other?

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    The Dunedin study

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Test 27Not started
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    Rubber

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    The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep

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    Living Dunes

60 minStart test
Test 28Not started
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    Dolls Through the Ages

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    Playing Soccer

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    The Rise of Big Data

60 minStart test
Test 29Not started
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    A survivor's story

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    Corporate Social Responsibility

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    The Voynich Manuscript

60 minStart test
Test 30Not started
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    Optimism and Health

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    Why don't we sleep?

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    Game Theory

60 minStart test
Test 31Not started
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    The Pixar Story

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    A new look for Talbot Park

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    The Peopling of Patagonia

60 minStart test
Test 32Not started
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    Western Immigration of Canada

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    A mechanical friend for children

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    Understanding symbols

60 minStart test

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