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The 30 Greatest New Zealanders - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 71 times
- The average score is 7 of 30
Answer Stats
| # | What they did / were | New Zealander | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | First to climb Mt. Everest | Edmund Hillary | 92%
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| 14 | Producer of the Lord of the Rings-Trilogy | Peter Jackson | 83%
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| 1 | Physicist known for his gold foil experiment and namesake of an element | Ernest Rutherford | 70%
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| 27 | Female prime minister from 1999 to 2008 | Helen Clark | 49%
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| 17 | Famous rugby union player nicknamed Pinetree | Colin Meads | 40%
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| 7 | Leader of a Māori rebellion (the Flagstaff War) | Hōne Heke | 38%
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| 2 | New Zealand's most famous suffragette | Kate Sheppard | 32%
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| 12 | Runner with three Olympic gold medals | Peter Snell | 32%
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| 18 | Māori elder who improved Māori women's rights - "Mother of the Nation" | Whina Cooper | 25%
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| 10 | Aviatrix who made the first solo flight from England to New Zealand | Jean Batten | 22%
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| 4 | Prime Minister 1877-1879 and the most complex governor | George Grey | 21%
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| 5 | Prime Minister when WWII broke out, also the first PM for the Labour Party | Michael Joseph Savage | 21%
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| 6 | Foremost Māori politician in parliament and protector of the Māori culture ($50 note) | Āpirana Ngata | 19%
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| 23 | Longest-serving prime minister | Richard Seddon | 19%
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| 15 | Author who was scheduled for lobotomy; Owls Do Cry | Janet Frame | 17%
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| 19 | Female short story writer; died at age 34 | Katherine Mansfield | 16%
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| 9 | 1st Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi | William Hobson | 14%
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| 25 | Jewish prime minister and writer of a 1899 science-fiction novel | Julius Vogel | 10%
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| 8 | Founder of the Plunket Society | Truby King | 10%
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| 29 | Commander of the Expeditionary Force and later Governor-General | Bernard Freyberg | 8%
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| 21 | Aviation pioneer who flew before the Wright brothers | Richard Pearse | 8%
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| 24 | Member of the Ngāti Mutunga iwi; also known as Peter Buck | Te Rangi Hīroa | 6%
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| 26 | Worked on the structure of DNA and X-ray crystallography | Maurice Wilkins | 5%
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| 13 | Rocket scientist and head of the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bill Pickering | 3%
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| 11 | Heart surgeon | Brian Barratt-Boyes | 3%
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| 28 | First woman cabinet minister, Standardisation of clothes | Mabel Howard | 3%
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| 16 | Māori chief and leader in the Musket Wars | Te Rauparaha | 3%
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| 20 | Pioneer of refrigerated shipping | Davidson / Brydone | 2%
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| 30 | Otolaryngologist, the Father of Plastic Surgery | Harold Gillies | 2%
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| 22 | Pacifist Māori leader | Te Whiti o Rongomai | 2%
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