Statistics for Embarrassing Chapters in New Zealand History

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
This nation's rugby team was allowed to tour New Zealand amid widespread criticism and resistance	South Africa	81%
This explorer was the first European to sight New Zealand, but apparently he never landed	Abel Tasman	79%
Tragic mosque shooting occurred in this major city in 2019, killing 51	Christchurch	79%
A poll tax was implemented in 1881 to reduce immigration of these people	Chinese	75%
The city above lost much infrastructure and homes from several occurrences of this natural disaster	Earthquake	75%
The price of these has risen considerably in recent decades, particularly in Auckland, making them largely unaffordable to many people	Houses	75%
A referendum on this cost $26 million and yielded no change	Flag	72%
This country's largest terrestrial animal was hunted to extinction	Moa	70%
European introduction of this item through trade intensified intertribal conflict leading to many Māori deaths	Musket	66%
This quintessentially Kiwi dessert may have originated in Australia	Pavlova	64%
This treaty of 1840 was poorly translated, leading to future complications	The Treaty of Waitangi	62%
New Zealand's colony (1920-1962) in which peaceful protests were repressed brutally	Western Samoa	60%
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	57%
This marsupial was introduced from Australia to establish a fur trade but became the country's principal pest	Possum	57%
NZ First leader criticized for his sometimes populist and xenophobic views, including that New Zealand is becoming an "Asian colony"	Winston Peters	55%
This German internet entrepreneur and founder of the Internet Party had his home raided by 76 officers and 2 helicopters	Kim Dotcom	51%
This Prime Minister called for a snap election while drunk, and subsequently lost	Robert Muldoon	49%
This indigenous pacifist group of people residing in the Chatham Islands were nearly eradicated by European/Māori arrivals	Moriori	45%
New Zealand's first capital which gained a reputation as the "Hell Hole of the Pacific"	Russell	42%
The neoliberal economic policy implemented by the Labour Party in the 1980s	Rogernomics	32%