GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TEST.
FEW MISTAKES MADE IN LISTS,
Prize and certificate winners may feel very proud of themselves this week, as their work has been selected from a large number of entries of a very high standard. Entrants that would undoubtedly have been at least certificate winners were disqualified on account of one fault— bad spelling. And this bad spelling came not so much from the younger members, but from the older boys and girls of over' fifteen. Most people seemed to find it a very easy task to complete the list of definitions with a noun beginning with P, but both the insect and the painter caught some little people. There are many famous artists whose name begins with P, and although the' insect was decidedly harder, there is one tnai you surely all must know, the praying mantis. Another stumbling block was the answer to number 9, the fish, in many cases given as porpoise, which is not a fish, but, like the whale, a sea mammal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 24
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