ANSWERS TO PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)

ANSWERS TO PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

(Questions On Page Ten) 1. Ships that pas* in the night and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness. So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another; Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence. —I.onsfellow ("Tales o£ a Wujskle Inn"). 2. Shelter. 3. Eugenics is the science relating to the development and improvement of offspring; calisthenics, exercises to promote bodily health and beauty; numismatics is the scientific study of coins. 4. The United States south of a certain line. 11 5. Having equal differences arithmetically proportional. 0. Yum-Yuiu; Fooh-bah. 7. Grapefruit. 8. Antonio Stradavari, Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Wolfgang Mozart, Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt. 9. The padded stick used by artists to steady the hand when working. 10. The lark. . 11. A widow in possession of a dower. 12. An official examiner of public accounts. 13. One who makes or deals in knives, etc. 14. Angora goat. 15. The Archbishops of Canterbury and Y'ork. 16. Indiarubber. 17. A route for travellers, cables, etc., that traverses only territory included in the British Empire (from the colour used for the Empire on maps). 18. Lignite i* coal retaining the texture of wood; browi^coal. 19. The Lords temporal are lay peers having seats in the House of Lords; the Lords spiritual Church of England dignitaries having seats in that House. 20. None of them.