# | What they did / were | New Zealander | % Correct |
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3 | First to climb Mt. Everest | Edmund Hillary | 93%
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14 | Producer of the Lord of the Rings-Trilogy | Peter Jackson | 88%
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1 | Physicist known for his gold foil experiment and namesake of an element | Ernest Rutherford | 75%
|
27 | Female prime minister from 1999 to 2008 | Helen Clark | 55%
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17 | Famous rugby union player nicknamed Pinetree | Colin Meads | 43%
|
7 | Leader of a Māori rebellion (the Flagstaff War) | Hōne Heke | 43%
|
12 | Runner with three Olympic gold medals | Peter Snell | 40%
|
2 | New Zealand's most famous suffragette | Kate Sheppard | 33%
|
18 | Māori elder who improved Māori women's rights - "Mother of the Nation" | Whina Cooper | 30%
|
10 | Aviatrix who made the first solo flight from England to New Zealand | Jean Batten | 28%
|
4 | Prime Minister 1877-1879 and the most complex governor | George Grey | 20%
|
15 | Author who was scheduled for lobotomy; Owls Do Cry | Janet Frame | 20%
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5 | Prime Minister when WWII broke out, also the first PM for the Labour Party | Michael Joseph Savage | 20%
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23 | Longest-serving prime minister | Richard Seddon | 20%
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19 | Female short story writer; died at age 34 | Katherine Mansfield | 18%
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6 | Foremost Māori politician in parliament and protector of the Māori culture ($50 note) | Āpirana Ngata | 15%
|
9 | 1st Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi | William Hobson | 13%
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25 | Jewish prime minister and writer of a 1899 science-fiction novel | Julius Vogel | 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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13 | Rocket scientist and head of the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bill Pickering | 5%
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26 | Worked on the structure of DNA and X-ray crystallography | Maurice Wilkins | 5%
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24 | Member of the Ngāti Mutunga iwi; also known as Peter Buck | Te Rangi Hīroa | 5%
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8 | Founder of the Plunket Society | Truby King | 5%
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11 | Heart surgeon | Brian Barratt-Boyes | 3%
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20 | Pioneer of refrigerated shipping | Davidson / Brydone | 3%
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30 | Otolaryngologist, the Father of Plastic Surgery | Harold Gillies | 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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22 | Pacifist Māori leader | Te Whiti o Rongomai | 3%
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