Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 147, 22 June 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

(Answer* on Page Four.)

1. Treasures destroyed by th« Hunt in Louvain in 1914 included priceletf incunabula. What is that? 2. Things would be bad in Europe today for the jongleur. A jongleur is (a) a wandering minstrel, (b) lounge lizard, (c) commercial traveller? 3. Kvass is (a) language of the Kaffirs, (b) Russian drink of fermented grain, (c) Gipsy musical instrument? 4. With an anemometer would yon (a) measure wind velocity, plant anemones, (c) check up on a taxi fant 5. What articles are collectively called naperv ? 0. How many voices or instrument* would you require to form an octet? 7. British soldiers in France soon le*ni the patois. Explain. 8. Doubt surrounds the position in Norway. Who or what i* the Storthing? 9. From what is vodka made? 10. What is vin-ordinaire ? 11. What kind of tree is an osier? 12. Can you give the familiar ten# for ten hundred thousand? 13. Latakia is a superior quality of smoking tobacco. It comes from (•) Turkey, (b) Cuba, (c) the Lesser Antilles?

14. What colour is magenta? 15. Hitler's methods are of tb# filibuster. What is a filibuster!

that they should. They're part of what we're fighting for. Our homes, music, books, flowers, all the pleasant, simple things that make life worth while. You may look up at the sky some night—a sky so pure and lovely it leave® von breathless. Yet, knowing that beneath it is a writhing world, you feel you can't enjoy its beauty. The contrast only saddens you. But doesn't that very contrast bring home forcibly to us how worthwhile is our fight to. preserve beauty? Could we not believe it was given us to encourage, to inspire us to win back that peace and loveliness in the world? Look at the stars often. Go for walks in the country and let the ❖