Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 13 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

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I. The problem states that 5x4 equals 33; that is. 20 equals 33. The fourth of 40 is 10. Therefore, if 20 equals 33, 10 will be half of it; i.e., 16*. Ihe Houses of \ork and Tancaster, August "22. 14S.">. when Richard 111. was defeated by the Karl of Richmond, afterwards Henry YIT., and slain through the desertion of Sir William Stanley. Henry is said to have been crowned on the spot with Richard's crown, found in a hawthorn bush near Bosworth Field. •>. Queen Mary, when Calais was recaptured from the English by the Duke of Guise, January 7, 1 .">.">B. 4. The Ganges. ■>. In the Azores, Atlantic Ocean. fi. Euphrates. 7. Dieu et mon Droit (God and Mv Right.) 8. Captain James Cook. 9 Veil. 10. American poets. 11. Arctic Ocean. 12. Xo. Violoncello. 13. Candelabrum. 14. Sizi-ter. (Authority: "Authors' and Printers' Dictionary,"' Oxford University Press.) 1;"). Dagger used by the natives of Malay Archipelago. 10. Study of bird life. 17. European guide book. 15. Recurring at mid-day and midnight. 19. "Nor iron bars a cage" (R. Lovelace, "To Althea from Prison"). 20. A Dutch name for a South African native village.