The KIN Mid-Week Christmas Quiz 51 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Still a chance to take on the Christmas Day challenge! Scroll down to December 21.

Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!

Answers below.

1 eleven-pipers Who arrived on the eleventh day of Christmas? (Eleven Pipers piping)

2 Which carol did German soldiers sing on Christmas Eve 1914? (Silent Night)

3 Christmas Day is actually the date of an old pagan festival. True or false? (True)

4 mary-and-joseph Why were Mary and Joseph required to go to Bethlehem? (For a census)

5 Who was Governor of Syria at the time? (Quirinius)

6 Who first recorded the song I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas? (Bing Crosby)

7 bing-crosby Which carol includes the line include the line Page and monarch forth they went? (Good King Wenceslas)

8 What was the name of the 1989 Christmas movie which starred Chevy Chase? (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation)

9 In the famous song, where was Mummy kissing Santa Claus? (Underneath the mistletoe)

10 snoopy-and-the-red-baron In the Snoopy’s Christmas song who did the intrepid flyer meet up with? (The Red Baron)

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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.