Statistics for Famous New Zealanders

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The first, with sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest	Sir Edmund Hillary	88%
Director of multiple award-winning films set in Middle Earth	Peter Jackson	85%
Teenage singer, of 'Royals' fame	Lorde	81%
Actor who starred in 'Gladiator' and 'A Beautiful Mind'	Russell Crowe	71%
The 'father of nuclear physics', credited with splitting the atom in 1917	Ernest Rutherford	62%
Former member of the All Blacks; the first true global superstar of rugby union	Jonah Lomu	58%
Model, formerly married to singer Rod Stewart	Rachel Hunter	54%
Soprano who made her Metropolitan opera debut in 1974	Dame Kiri te Kanawa	51%
NZ's most famous women's suffragette who appears on the NZ ten dollar note	Katherine Sheppard	51%
Actress best known for her role as Xena: Warrior Princess	Lucy Lawless	51%
Actor who starred in 'Dead Calm' and 'Jurassic Park'	Sam Neill	51%
Won Best Supporting Actress at age 11, for 'The Piano' (1994)	Anna Paquin	43%
Former Prime Minister and staunch defender of nuclear-free policy	David Lange	38%
Ex-cricketer, renowned for his fast bowling, and the first to take 400 wickets	Sir Richard Hadlee	37%
Comedian, actor and one half of the musical duo Flight of the Conchords	Bret McKenzie/Jemaine Clement	35%
Director of 'The Piano', for which she won the Palme d'Or	Jane Campion	34%
Motorcycle racer, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in 'The World's Fastest Indian'	Burt Munro	29%
Author who revolutionized the 20th century English short story	Katherine Mansfield	19%
First NZ athlete to win Olympic gold, in 1936 (1500 metres)	Jack Lovelock	13%
Classical composer who studied with England's Ralph Vaughan Williams	Douglas Lilburn	6%