| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Director and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy | Peter Jackson | 84%
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| Mountaineer who the first climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | 83%
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| Actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the movie Gladiator | Russell Crowe | 83%
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| Stage name of Ella Yelich-O'Connor, whose most famous song is Royals | Lorde | 61%
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| Country singer who is married to Nicole Kidman | Keith Urban | 55%
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| Prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017 | Jacinda Ardern | 51%
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| Director of movies Jojo Rabbit, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok | Taika Waititi | 47%
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| Actor who starred as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park movies | Sam Neill | 42%
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| New Zealand-born scientist who became known as the father of nuclear physics | Ernest Rutherford | 34%
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| Actress who played the title character of TV series Xena: Warrior Princess | Lucy Lawless | 34%
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| Actress who received the Academy Award at the age of 11, for playing in film The Piano | Anna Paquin | 29%
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| Singer who was featured on single Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye | Kimbra | 29%
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| Race-car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor whose name lives on in a Formula One | Bruce McLaren | 28%
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| Rugby player who has won the World Rugby player of the year award three times | Richie McCaw | 28%
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| Basketball player who played for Oklahoma City, New Orleans and Memphis | {Steven} Adams | 27%
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| Opera singer who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana | Kiri Te Kanawa | 26%
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| Female shot putter, a four-time World champion and two-time Olympic champion | {Valerie} Adams | 25%
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| Musician best known as a member of the bands Crowded House and Split Enz | Neil Finn | 18%
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| Actor who portrayed Jango Fett and Boba Fett in Star Wars franchise | Temuera Morrison | 17%
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| Actor who starred as superhero Homelander in TV series The Boys | Anthony Starr | 16%
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| Suffragette who was the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote | Kate Sheppard | 14%
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| Model, actress and the host of Imagination Television's Tour of Beauty | Rachel Hunter | 14%
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| Modernist writer who wrote short stories and poetry | Katherine Mansfield | 7%
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| Actor who portrayed Dr. Nathan Riggs in drama TV series Grey's Anatomy | Martin Henderson | 6%
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| Actor who played in TV series Trauma, Missing and Fear the Walking Dead | Cliff Curtis | 5%
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