History of New Zealand - Statistics

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