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• Published date: 26 January 2023
• Publication title: Daily Post, The (Rotorua, New Zealand)

2Addis Ababa is the capital of what African country

3What Japanese delicacy, often eaten with soy sauce, consists of fresh raw fish or meat sliced into thin pieces?

4What is New Zealand’s largest active volcano?

5Who is New Zealand’s current Minister of Foreign Affairs?

6What iconic fashion designer was murdered outside his Miami home in 1997?

7What psychoactive drug is present in tobacco?

8What half-hour-long NZ current affairs programme did John Campbell host between 2005 and 2015?

9From where can you “check out any time you like, but you can never leave”?

10College students Frances and Bobbi are the main characters in what novel by Sally Rooney?

History1844 NZ Governor Robert FitzRoy arrives in Wellington to investigate the ‘Wairau Massacre’ in which 22 British settlers and four Māori were killed. He decides that Ngāti Toa were provoked by the unreasonable actions of the Europeans.

1905 World’s largest diamond, the 3106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa.

1962 The US launches Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the Moon. (The probe ends up missing its target.)

1974 At the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, Kiwi Dick Tayler sprints to a surprise victory in the 10,000m track race against formidable rivals, including English world record-holder David Bedford.

1993 Vaclav Havel is...