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Which American president features in the musical Little Orphan Annie? (Franklin Roosevelt)

What does the word serendipitous mean? (fortuitous)

What is the most common gas in the atmosphere? (nitrogen)

Who won the recent Men’s Tennis Finals in London: Nadal, Federer or Dimitrov? (Dimitrov)

Trees can communicate with each other through fungus growing from their roots. True or false? (true)

What is the English name for the name for the Whio? (Blue Duck)

The St Lawrence Seaway runs between which two countries? (The United States and Canada)

Which city in New Zealand has a suburb called Totara Park? (Upper Hutt)

Name the Maori tribe which was given the island of Taputeranga by former Minister of Treaty Settlements, Chris Finlayson? (Ngati Toa)

Which New Zealand city recently elected a woman mayor? (Hastings)

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.