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History of New Zealand - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 76 times
- The average score is 16 of 25
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1865 | This city loses its capital city status | Auckland | 90%
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| 1953 | Sir Edmund Hillary reaches this extreme point of the Earth | Mount Everest | 90%
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| 1893 | New Zealand grants this people group the right to vote, the first country to do so | women | 90%
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| 2003 | This epic Peter L. Jackson trilogy is completed | The Lord of the Rings | 89%
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| 1769 | This English circumnavigator lands in present-day Gisborne | James Cook | 87%
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| 1982 | The ratio of humans to this peaks at 1 to 22 | sheep | 87%
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| 2011 | Christchurch is getting shocked by this | earthquake | 86%
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| 1642 | This explorer becomes the first European to sight New Zealand | Abel Tasman | 79%
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| 2019 | This community (whānau) becomes the target of a terrorist, leaving 51 dead | {Muslim} community | 78%
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| 1987 | This team wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup | the All Blacks | 78%
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| 1916 | This party, the oldest in the country, is founded | Labour | 75%
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| c. 1400 | This large flightless goes extinct due to Māori overhunting | Moa | 75%
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| 1915 | This campaign in the Ottoman Empire leaves 2,700 fighters dead | {Gallipoli} campaign | 71%
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| 1984 | New Zealand bans these ships from entering their ports | {nuclear}-powered ships | 70%
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| 1861 | This is discovered in Central Otago | Gold | 67%
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| 1915 | Name of the army corps these soldiers were part of | ANZAC | 65%
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| 2016 | In a national referendum, voters reject a change of this | the national flag | 62%
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| 1840 | This treaty between Māori chiefs and colonialists is signed in the Bay of Islands | Treaty of {Waitangi} | 62%
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| 1931 | This city is rebuilt in Art Déco style after a disastrous earthquake | Napier | 49%
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| 2010 | The Pike River disaster leaves 29 dead. What is/was Pike River? | a mine | 46%
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| 233 AD | This supervolcano erupts for the last time (so far) | Taupō Volcano | 44%
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| 1845 | This Māori leader cuts down the British flagstaff in Russell | Hōne Heke | 37%
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| c. 1300 | This legendary Māori figure discovers Aotearoa | Kupe | 27%
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| 1975 | This Māori leader walks the length of North Island to protest against land loss | Whina Cooper | 25%
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| 1856 | This man becomes New Zealand's first Prime Minister | Henry Sewell | 11%
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