Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 11, 13 January 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

(1) Havo you ever tried word juggling? You take two ordinary words having the same nmniber of letters and change the first into the second by steps: Try tilis: Change the-.word COIN into BARE, using three intermediate stages. (2) Tho correct name of Britain's Houses of Parliament is: St. Stephen's Clmpo], tho New Palace of/Westminster, the Palace iV - St. Stephen, Westminster Hall, t-lie High Court, of Parliament? (3) If someone gavo you a ibergamot, .would you cat it, plant "it, kill it, sit oilit, uso it as bait, fertilise the ground with it?(4) Wliafc are Mancunians? ■ (5) .What is ail artist's atelier?: (6) The Thames is tidal as far upstream as Teddington, Richmond, Staines; Oxford, * Windsor, Lambeth Bridge ? (7) Wllat shape is a rotiform object? (8) A Marsupial.is: An animal which carries its young in :a pouch, any animal wihich does not lay eggs, a fourlegged reptile, an extinct bird, a carnivorous boar ? (0) How many of the seven wonders of tho ancient world can you remember? (10) Tho Derby is run on a course which is longer or shorter than one mile? (11) Morpheus is generally represented as a chubby, -winged child, holding poppies in his hand. Why? (12) Julius Caesar's first name' was: Lucius, Gains, Quintus, Horatius, Brutus, Camillus? (13) Put tliese cities in order of size: Munich, Warsaw, Stockholm, Home, Glasgow, Budapest, (14) Who was tlib author of "All Quiet on tho Western Front?" What was its sequel called? (15) Ail addax, of course, is: A calculating machine, a combined axe and adze, a North African antelope ? (16) What sea. bird has a wing-spread of 10-llft? . (17) A groat was worth 2d, 3d, 4d, (3d, 1/, 5/ ? (IS) Speedway racing was introduced in England in 1928. From what country? (19) "Is this the face that launched 'a thousand ships?" Whose face was it, and who' wrote this famous' line? (20) 'What rank would an Army officer require to be on equal terms with an Air Vice-Marshal of tho R.A.A.F. ? (Answers On Page 10)