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Embarrassing Chapters in New Zealand History - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 73 times
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- The average score is 13 of 20
Answer Stats
| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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| This nation's rugby team was allowed to tour New Zealand amid widespread criticism and resistance | South Africa | 82%
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| This explorer was the first European to sight New Zealand, but apparently he never landed | Abel Tasman | 80%
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| Tragic mosque shooting occurred in this major city in 2019, killing 51 | Christchurch | 80%
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| A poll tax was implemented in 1881 to reduce immigration of these people | Chinese | 79%
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| The price of these has risen considerably in recent decades, particularly in Auckland, making them largely unaffordable to many people | Houses | 77%
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| The city above lost much infrastructure and homes from several occurrences of this natural disaster | Earthquake | 75%
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| A referendum on this cost $26 million and yielded no change | Flag | 74%
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| This country's largest terrestrial animal was hunted to extinction | Moa | 74%
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| European introduction of this item through trade intensified intertribal conflict leading to many Māori deaths | Musket | 69%
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| This quintessentially Kiwi dessert may have originated in Australia | Pavlova | 67%
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| This treaty of 1840 was poorly translated, leading to future complications | The Treaty of Waitangi | 66%
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| This series of conflicts from 1845 to 1872 between Māori and Europeans lead to many thousands of deaths and much land confiscation from the native Māori people | New Zealand Wars | 61%
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| This marsupial was introduced from Australia to establish a fur trade but became the country's principal pest | Possum | 61%
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| New Zealand's colony (1920-1962) in which peaceful protests were repressed brutally | Western Samoa | 59%
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| NZ First leader criticized for his sometimes populist and xenophobic views, including that New Zealand is becoming an "Asian colony" | Winston Peters | 59%
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| This German internet entrepreneur and founder of the Internet Party had his home raided by 76 officers and 2 helicopters | Kim Dotcom | 52%
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| This Prime Minister called for a snap election while drunk, and subsequently lost | Robert Muldoon | 52%
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| This indigenous pacifist group of people residing in the Chatham Islands were nearly eradicated by European/Māori arrivals | Moriori | 51%
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| New Zealand's first capital which gained a reputation as the "Hell Hole of the Pacific" | Russell | 46%
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| The neoliberal economic policy implemented by the Labour Party in the 1980s | Rogernomics | 38%
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