Misc: Which country altered it's timezone in order to be the first to see in the year 2000?

Questions

Where is the 2,000 Guineas run?

The rediscovery of whose piano rags made ragtime music popular again in the second half of the century?

By what name do we know the slender glass tube used for transferring or measuring out known volumes of liquids?

Which childrens stiry takes place in St Petersburg Missouri?

On what object would you find a barb,a shaft and a quill?