Answers To Peter Simple's Posers
1. It is the Scottish !N*e\v Year's Eve festival. 2. The native race of Borneo. • 3. Boadicea. 4. Four. The hind pair is*~sinaller than the front pair. . ; 5. Indiarubber. 0. Fletcher. 7. Diogenes.
(Questions on serial page.) S. Taking the bull by the horns, letting the cat out of the bag, sinews of war, bee in the bonnet, long arm of coincidence. 0. Sir Walter Scott ("The Lay of the Last Minstrel.") 10. The Prime Minister. 11. Seventeen and a half miles. 12. A large Spanish ship with three or four decks.
13. A measure of capacity: equal to nine ale gallons or Imperial-, gallons. 14. Fountain-pen nibs. . • i.' 15. The League of Nations. • . IG. On the back. . • • . / 17. One who treats mind or mental disease. :.\ . / ~ v . .• '•'/ ; y IS. Germany. It is often-called-"the German 'Punch.'" 19. 1215. <\ 20. The four front teeth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 11 (Supplement)
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