We're not Australians, OK Cherie:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3181723a10,00.html

Then test yourself here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,1408517,00.html

9/10 - got the flower wrong! Does that entitle me to take the pistachio, mite? :)

I didn't even know we HAD a national flower. I only got that one right because it's was the only NZ flower on the list. I got the question about the federation wrong. I never knew that Fiji once considered being part of a menagerie of three with the ANZACs.

yeahbut - you gotta know what's a flower and what's a local term for a house of ill-repute or whatever the others are! I landed two fairly lucky guesses, of which the other island was one.