Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)

Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

1. Scrooge in "A Christinas Carol," by Dickens. 2. Concave. 3. A person aged from 90 years to 100. 3. French for "stoker." Many- forerunners .of the motor car were steam driven, and needed the services of a stoker. 5. Any ship built for war purposes is a warehip. A bait'ieship is the largest size of warship. -• •> 6. Wireless which- -enable#- jsign q,ls to be sent in one particular direction oiily. 7. A fellow-countryman.

(Questions on Serial Page.) 8. Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli (all in Africa. 9. 414,825. 10. An artificial "universal" language invented by Dr. Louis ; Zamenhof, of Warsaw, in 1887. It is based on the roots of the principal European languages, and has so simple a grammar and forms "of construction that it can be learned very quickly. _ 11,. The great painters of the thirteenth to the seventeenth century in all countries. __

12. One inch. 13. Three. 14. Green. 15. The Russian secret police. (The initials are of the Russian words for United State Political Department.) 16. Pro tempore. 17. Mr. Rudolf Baren. 18. Son-in-law. 19. Creamy pink with dark brown markings and blue eyes. 20.. An .industry. t on -which vital - interests of the country or other industries depend. ' <