Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 13 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

1. Of course you know'what fruitologists, beauticians and realtors are,;; but--111 get you yet! What are menticulturalists, morticians, socialites":; and- newshawks? t /' : v 2. A gallon of water weighs v.Olb.- What is the approximate weight .of a gallon of petrol? ' / 3. The. Bronte Society has obtained permission' to place a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey to the .three famous Bronte sisters. V Can you ' pick their names from the "following list: — Elizabeth, Charlotte, Jane, Mary, Emily, Winifred, Anne? 4. President Roosevelt will leave his Hyde Park estate, Xcw York, to the nation; The President is getting on in years. He is now—63, 75, 56, 48? 5. What exactly do you think autarky is—a new kind of anarchy, asystem of economic self-sufficiency,- a new card game? ■ . • .

- U6.;. Poems and authors are jumbled iii ; - ■•tliis list. Can-you sort- them out into : /their correct places? Scott ("Endy-- : mion"), Tennyson ("Tlie Ancient Mar-' ".riner"), Longfellow ("The Lady; of the /Lake"), Coleridge ("Hiawatha"), Keats j.; ('ldylls of the King"). . ' L- *7i "Wliat is napery? . . / .S." On what group of islands do the Orcadians live ?" ' a * ; 9. Victoria has an area of 87 3 544 square miles. Of the whole area of Aus- ! tralia, would that be a sixth, a twelfth, : a thirty-fourth, or a fiftieth? . 10. "What European king is also King ' of the Goths and the Wends? 11. What famous British author is ' now in Australia? t 12. Coins .have two sides (clever, isn't he?). One is called the obverse and oue . the reverse. Which side bears the head J or main device ? . ■ 13. What is the meaniug of "lang : syne"?;

14. Part of the island of Borneo is h British protectorate. Who owns tin remainder? : 15. Who are tlie Blackshirts ? 16. Where is Bessarabia ? 17. What is (a) an apiarist; (b) s A topiarist ? 15. What British king bore the nickname "Farmer George"? 19. What was the name of the French naval officer and his young son who perished on the burning deck of the I/Orient at the Battle of the Kile in 1798? 20. According to Greek story, tin* Amazon women lived in: Africa', Germany, Asia Minor, South America? (Answers on Short Story Page.)