The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 106 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 3.

You can still do the fourth quiz of 2018 by scrolling down to January 24.

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

Answers below.

In which country was Lego first developed? (Denmark)

In 2017 Australia and South Africa had 10 Super Rugby teams. How many will they have this year: 7, 8 or 9? (7)

Which MP drafted the End of Life Choice Bill? (David Seymour)

Who wrote the play called The Daylight Athiest? (Tom Scott)

When the Duke of Cambridge eventually becomes king, what number William will he be? (V)

All Maori men could vote before all non-Maori males gained that right. True of false? (True)

Where in the world is the Skeleton Coast? (the coast of Namibia in southwest Africa)

In the Glen Campbell song, what place would he be at when he knew she’ll be rising? (Phoenix)

Which part of body was the weak point for the Greek warrior Achilles? (the heel)

What type of rainfall occurs when air rises and cools over mountains? (orographical)

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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.