The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 85 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Answers below.

What do the initials UNESCO, stand for? (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)

Rottnest Island is off the coast of which Australian state? (Western Australia)

Mace is the flesh that surrounds the nut producing which spice? (nutmeg)

In which century was the Magna Carta signed? (13^th)

Which two British singers composed Money for Nothin’? (Sting and Mark Knopfler)

Name the five leaders of the Labour Party since Helen Clark departed. (Phil Goff, David Shearer, David Cunliffe, Andrew Little, Jacinda Ardern)

What is the French phrase for economic development that is largely unregulated? (laissez faire)

Loess soil develops from material which is deposited by winds, glaciers or rivers? (winds)

In 1968 Franco Zeffirelli directed a film based on which Shakespearean play? (Romeo and Juliet)

Where on the body do you find the gluteus maximus muscles? (hip/backside)

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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.