Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

(Questions on serial page.)

1. From Maia. the mother of Mercury, to w lioni sacrifices were offered on the first day of this month. 2. Tennyson, in "The May Queen." 3. Occultation, in . astronomy, refers to the concealment of a celestrial body by the passing before it of some other heavenly body. Occultism originally was the practice or study of the occult sciences, such as alchemy, astrology, magic, and necromancy; but in recent times it refers only to theosopliy, spirit i.-m, palmistry, and so forth. 4. The Norwegian legislative assembly. >. Teetotal. The word originated with the first English temperance society. \\ hen the <juestion of partial or total abstinence was discussed, a Preston working man declared that nothing but "te-tetotal ' would do. C. 1728. 7. A plav on "mnble pie," a dish made out of deer's innards, and common fare among poor people in medieval tunes. 8. A kind of long cotton cloth heavier than ordinary calico, originally made in Madapollam, a town in India. 0. Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe. Melpomene. Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Lrania. 10. Scenery, stage effect. 11. A wine bottle containing from 10 to 12 quarts. 12. A line fixed by international agreement. It follows the 180 degree meridian except where it diverges to avoid land. .Flio clay starts on this line and sweeps westward with the sun. 13. The horse latitudes are regions of calms about 40 degrees N. and just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, where the anti-trades descend and become south-west and north-west surface winds. 14. 1200 miles, or, with the Darline, 2."310 miles. 15. So-called because it passes through British territory—the route from England to Australia bv way of Canada. 10. The giant French liner Normandie, of 5.1.423 tons, is not bigger than the British Queen Mary, of 81,235 tons. Th? following it* length and breadth of each:—Queen Mary: 975.2 ft long, 118.tift beam. Normandie: 962 ft long, 117.7 ft beam. Gross tonnage is length, breadth and depth of "permanently enclosed spaces" in cubic feet divided by 100. Normandie happens to have more such space than the British vessel. It is easy to increase or decrease the tonnage of any ship by building in or cutting away the eide plating of a deck.

17. Pacific Ocean (fi3.086.000 square milos) j Atlantic (31,520,000 square miles).

18. French moh-mo (ng) mee-see-cal. A fancy name sometimes used for short compositions of varying character, usually for the piano. The term is specially associated with Schubert, who probably introduced it. 19. Ten hours fast. 20. Mongolian, Caucasian, Negro, Semitic, Malayan, Red Indian.