Games: Trivia Test

What type of newspaper gets its name from what a London pharmaceutical company called its compressed pills?

newspapers_521 (photo credit: Reuters)
newspapers_521
(photo credit: Reuters)
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2. On what festive day did the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discover the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui in 1722?
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7. What type of newspaper that usually carries off-beat stories gets its name from what a London pharmaceutical company called its compressed pills?
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