Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 5

Peter Simple's Posers

1. If five times four are 33, what will the fourth of 40 be? 2. Bosvvorth Field was the site of the 13th and last battle between two English factions. Can you give their names and the date of the battle. 3. What English queen is said to have exclaimed: "When I am dead, (-ii la is will be found written on my heart ?" 4. Can you name the great sacred river of Northern India? 5. Where is Flores, or the Isle of Flowers ? (i. Babylon's ruins are on the banks of the largest river in Western Asia. Can you name it? 7. What is the Royal motto of England ? 8. What great navigator was killed by the savages of Owhyhee on February 14, 1770? 9. If you were a Moslem woman you would know that a yashmak is a:—

Reast of burden, hour of prayer, veil, Turkish delight. 10. Who were Walt Whitman and John Green leaf Whittier? 11. Where is Franz Josef Land? 12. Is this spelling correct: Violincello ? 13. What is the singular of the word "candelabra" ? 14. Can you give the correct pronunciation of Cirencester? 15. What is a kris? 10. What do you associate with ornithology ? 17. What famous book did Karl Baedeker publish? IH. Tail you give the meaning of "bimeridian" ? 19. Give the line following this one: "Stone walls do not a prison make." 20. What is a kraal? ' (Answers on Prize Story Page.)