PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

(Answers On Page 5) 1. Which of tlie .following reigning European monarchs has played in tlie lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon? George VI. (Great Britain), Leopold 111. (Belgium), Christian X. (Denmark), Haakon VII. (Norway), Carol 11. (Rumania). 2. Would you rather have three dozen dozen apples" or a quarter dozen dozen apples ? 3. Each of the words described here ends in the termination "city." Can you discover what they are? —The city of Bliss, the failure's city, the city of effrontery, the celebrity's city, Simon's city, George Washington's city, the usurer's city, a shocking city. 4. Cryptography? 5. What decorations for gallantry and distinguished service are known by tlieso abbreviations: D.5.0., D.S.C., D.F.C., and D.F.M.? C.i In which of • the fighting services are thev awarded? 7. When did the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics come into force in Russia? . S. Who is the Caudillo of Spain and what is a caudillo?. 0. Where are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands? 10. Is Patagonia independent? Where is it? The same for Volhynia? And Bessarabia ? And Liberia ? 11. How many octaves (approximately) are there on a full piano keyboard: —6, 7, S, 1, 10, 11?

12. One of these is the birth-stone of the month of- August: —Amethyst, S chrysolite, cornelian, diamond, ruby, e sardonyx? i* 13. What is the approximate propor- >- tion of land and water 011 the earth's 1* surface;— Three times as much water '1 as land; twice as much water as land; water and land equal; one and a half n times as much land as water; two and a

11 half times as much land as water? 14. A stag party is one given:—For , c the players in a match; for men only; u after a successful stalk; 011 a, wedding . r anniversary; when a battalion returns from service abroad; by undergraduates > s who have finished their final cxaminae tions? 15. Where is the Republic of Andorra ? 36. Name the group of nine islands y in the Atlantic which belongs to Pory tugal? '•» 17. The Taj Malial.'in India was built as:—An exhibition pavilion; a Govern:3 ment house; a royal palace; a prison; a temple; a tomb? >t IS. A Scotsman's vocabularly might n include the following. Which was his two-edged broadsword: — Claymore, d coronach, gillie, pibroch, sassenach, sporran. )- 19. Eider-down comes from:—A dan-delion-like plant, a dried sea-plant, a e swan, a duck, an African farmyard bird? 20. If you had a hod, would you: i- Wear it for motoring, keep potatoes in it, carry bricks in it, or plant it in your garden?