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• Published date: 28 March 2024
• Publication title: Daily Post, The (Rotorua, New Zealand)

2If you ask for hashi at a Japanese restaurant, what will the waiter bring you

3What does the “P” stand for in the computer file format PDF?

4The island of Zanzibar is part of what country?

5Mamoe is the Samoan word for which meat?

6In what year was the saxophone patented?

7Who played an uncredited guitar solo on The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps?

8What chocolate bar is in Hell Pizza’s Unholy Donut?

9When was the first Guinness Book of World Records published?

10In the song American Pie, whose death is said to be “the day the music died”?

History1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire receives a patent for a washing machine.

1854 During the Crimean War, UK and France declare war on Russia.

1923 The NZ Native Bird Protection Society, a forerunner to Forest & Bird, is formed at a meeting in Wellington.

1930 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

1935 Notorious Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) premieres in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1939 The Spanish Civil War nears its end as Madrid falls to the forces of Francisco Franco.

1941 Novelist Virginia Woolf, 59, drowns herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.

1942 During World War II, British naval forces stage a successful raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St Nazaire, destroying the only...