Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

(Questions on Page 2.) 1. Three dozen dozen would be 432, and a quarter-dozen dozen 38 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 3. From Nicot, the Frenchman who introduced the plant into France. 4. Between pink and red. 5. A dimension which, added to the ordinary, sensible, three demensions (length, breadth and depth), imparts a fourth dimensional sense. 6. Citric acid. 7. A fashionable quarter in the west of London, north of Piccadilly and the, Green Park. It is roughly the postal district W.l. 8. The doing of malicious, wilful mischief, or damage. It comes from the fact that French strikers once used their heavy sabots (wooden shoes) to jam the points on railway tracks and thus wreck trains. 9. A variety of games, etc., at a social evening. According to Webster, the word means a mixture of various ingredients, a medley, a potpourri, or a miscellany. 10. Days of youth when judgment is still unripe and unformed. Shakespeare, in "Antony and Cleopatra," speaks of "my salad days, when I was green in judgment." 11. A commercial device of so persistently introducing and reintroducing, by any means possible (radio, cinema, etc.), a taking melody that it quickly becomes highly popular. 12. Pitcairn Island. 13. Captain Phillip (1788-1792). 14. The "British Grenadiers." 15. "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary." 16. "John Brown's Body." 17. "Marching Through Georgia." 18. Queen Elizabeth. 19. Oliver Cromwell.