Statistics for History of New Zealand

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This quiz has been taken 46 times
The average score is 17 of 25

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1893	New Zealand grants this people group the right to vote, the first country to do so	women	95%
1865	This city loses its capital city status	Auckland	92%
1769	This English circumnavigator lands in present-day Gisborne	James Cook	92%
1953	Sir Edmund Hillary reaches this extreme point of the Earth	Mount Everest	92%
2011	Christchurch is getting shocked by this	earthquake	90%
1982	The ratio of humans to this peaks at 1 to 22	sheep	90%
2003	This epic Peter L. Jackson trilogy is completed	The Lord of the Rings	87%
2019	This community (whānau) becomes the target of a terrorist, leaving 51 dead	{Muslim} community	82%
1642	This explorer becomes the first European to sight New Zealand	Abel Tasman	79%
1915	This campaign in the Ottoman Empire leaves 2,700 fighters dead	{Gallipoli} campaign	79%
1987	This team wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup	the All Blacks	79%
1916	This party, the oldest in the country, is founded	Labour	77%
c. 1400	This large flightless goes extinct due to Māori overhunting	Moa	77%
1984	New Zealand bans these ships from entering their ports	{nuclear}-powered ships	72%
1915	Name of the army corps these soldiers were part of	ANZAC	69%
1861	This is discovered in Central Otago	Gold	64%
1840	This treaty between Māori chiefs and colonialists is signed in the Bay of Islands	Treaty of {Waitangi}	64%
2016	In a national referendum, voters reject a change of this	the national flag	59%
1931	This city is rebuilt in Art Déco style after a disastrous earthquake	Napier	51%
2010	The Pike River disaster leaves 29 dead. What is/was Pike River?	a mine	44%
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	38%
1975	This Māori leader walks the length of North Island to protest against land loss	Whina Cooper	26%
c. 1300	This legendary Māori figure discovers Aotearoa	Kupe	23%
1856	This man becomes New Zealand's first Prime Minister	Henry Sewell	13%