Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 183, 3 August 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

(Answers on Page 4.) 1. Capital city of Palestine is (a) Jerusalem; (b) Tel Aviv; (c) Bethlehem? 2. Can you give the Christian names ot the famous three Bronte sisters? „.?• May Alcott wrote "Good Wires" and what other best seller? 4. P,ck out the Poets Laureate from this list: John Dryden, John Keats Robert Southey, < William Wordsworth' Alfred Austin, Rudyard Kipling. 5. How near can you get to statin" actual time taken by Scott and Black, Centenary air race winners, to fly from Mildenhall (England) to Melbourne in 6. Canticle is (a) a hymn; (b) French for rooster; (c) part of your finger? 7. When did Benito Mussolini start the Fascist movement? 8. What (if, pardon me, anything!) do you known about Fata Morgana? 0. One of these places is known as the Land of Butterflies. Which one? (a) Mexico; (b) Japan; (c) Guatemala, in Central Mexico? 10. Jacobins were members of a political club formed during the French Revolution. What were Jacobites? 11. Is a panacea (a) a kitchenette; (b) a mythological forest; (c) a cure-all for troubles?

■ — ♦ 12. What is the meaning of "cantonment ? B ]a' 5? at is * tourn >q«et used for? 14. Ihree largest cities iu the world, in order, are:-(l) London, (2) Saw *ork, (3) Paris, Tokyo, or Berlin?