Top 20 most important and famous people from New Zealand - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Director of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy	Peter Jackson	85%
The first climber confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary	77%
Prime Minister from 2017	Jacinda Ardern	77%
Female singer, Royals	Lorde	77%
Actor, famous for his role in Gladiator, winner of Academy Award in 2001	Russell Crowe	77%
Physicist known as the father of nuclear physics, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908	Ernest Rutherford	46%
Actor famous for his role as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park	Sam Neill	46%
Founder of a Formula One team, one of the most successful in Formula One championship history, winning a total of 8 World Constructors' Championships and 12 World Drivers' Championships	Bruce McLaren	42%
Director of Jojo Rabbit, winner of Academy Award in 2020	Taika Waititi	42%
Director of The Piano and The Power of the Dog, two times winner of Academy Award	Jane Campion	35%
Rugby player, the first true global superstar of rugby, and consequently had a huge impact on the game	Jonah Lomu	35%
Actress, famous for her role in The Piano, for which she won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11	Anna Paquin	31%
Driver, Formula One champion in 1967	Denny Hulme	27%
Rugby player, he captained the All Blacks and won two Rugby World Cups	Richie McCaw	19%
Rugby player, the highest point scorer in test matches	Dan Carter	15%
Female writer, author of The Garden Party	Katherine Mansfield	12%
Most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand	Kate Sheppard	8%
Female writer known as one of the Queens of Crime, along with Agatha Christie	Ngaio Marsh	8%
Chemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000	Alan G. MacDiarmid	4%
Physicist who made significant corrections to the Watson–Crick DNA model and to study the structure of RNA, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962	Maurice Wilkins	4%