Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

1. Xame the drink tlic name of which is ari abbreviation of Geneva. 2. How many States are there in the United States of America? 3. What part of the body is called the clavicle? 4. And what is the scapula? 5. "Where is Wake Island, which belongs to the U.S.? 0. How many miles long is tho Panama Canal? 7. Where are Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and to whom do they belong? 8. Can you complete the line which follows Tennyson's "Kind hearts are more than coronets"? 9. Who made famous tho phra.se "take up the white man's "burden," and to what did he refer? 10. In what famous song does the refrain occur, "It may be for years and it may "be for ever"? 11. What English King was nicknamed "Bluff King Hal"? 12. And who was called Richard Coeur de Lion? 13. How many pairs of bony arches (ribs) in the human frqme? 14. What is the origin of the phrase "to eat humble pie"? 15. If eugenics is the science dealing with physical racial improvements, what is euthcnics? 10. Xame tho East Indian tree that throws out aerial branches which, take root. 17. How did the term "a baker's dozen" originate? 18. What sort of plant is a biennial? 10. Who is credited with having first said that an army marches on its stomach ? 20. What is the science of projectiles in motion? (Answers on Page 6)