The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 105 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 10.

The third quiz for 2018.

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

Answers on Sunday.

Who were the singles champions in the 2017 Australian Tennis Open?

The Treaty of Waitangi established a formal partnership between Maori and the Crown. True or false?

We call them Sounds, what is the Norwegian term?

The island of Corsica is part of France, Italy or Spain?

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which king was assassinated?

According to Christ in the New Testament, which monarch dressed in his finery couldn’t match the lilies of the field?

the film The Post is set in which city?

Who wrote the poem with the opening line I met a traveler from an antique land?

When on the body would you find the iliotibial band?

What is the calm area in the middle of a hurricane called?

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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.