PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

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(Questions On Page 2.) 1 Forty-nine years. She succeeded her late "father, King William 111., on ] Xovember 23, 1S90; her husband, Prince ( Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, died July 3. 193-f. ' 2. An apparatus for drying substances. 3. Citadel of a city, especially ancient Athens. 4. Because he prefers to live in groups c {or herds). 1 5. Face downward. (i. The pendulum. 7. A gourd; gourd-shaped. S. Sepov non-commissioned officer in the British native army in India. c 9. Marine turtle, so called from the shape of its snout; common in the tropical parts of the Indian, Pacific, and t Atlantic Oceans. £

10. No; they are spelt "withhold* and "watclihousc." 11. Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Robert Sherwood, the brothers Capek. Noel Coward. 12. Oncc every 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds. 13. Diek Turpin. London to York. 14. Six sides. 15. Russian monk who exercised an evil influence over the Czar and his family during the war of 1914-1S; said to have been a German agent. IG. Clergymen. 17. Leonardo da Vinci. ]S. That used by Eskimos and made of sealskin and walrus ribs. 19. A gallon and a half. 20. First of all, GO ni.p.h., but it soon tires, and reduces its speed to an average of 20 miles.