Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 3 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

(Answers on Page 7.) 1. Here are half a dozen books and authors. Can you put them together? "Gulliver's Travels," "Tom Sawyer," '•The Last of the Mohicans," "The Thirty-Nine Steps," "The Day's Work," "The Cloister and the Hearth,"; Rudyqrd Kipling, Mark Twain, John Buchan, Fenimore Cooper, Dean Swift, Charles Reade. * 2. What is the full title of the M.U.1.0.0.F.? 3. What is the meaning of the abbreviation Min. Plen. in a diplomatic document? 4. Poetically, is a zephyr the north, eouth, east or west wind? 5. In what country is a solicitor or an attorney described as a "writer to the Signet"?

6. Vulpine, means like (a) a fox; (b) a wolf; (c) a vulture? 7. Umbriferous trees are valued in Australia becauee (a) they are shade trees; (b) they never need watering; (c) eheep thrive on their leaves? 8. In music the word "tutti" is used (a) by a conductor when he is annoyed; (b) as a direction for all the singer* or players to perform together; (c) to indicate the use of the" mute? 9. A saraband is (a) a grave Spanish dance; (b) a cloth-like, belt to keep u]> the trousers; (c) a Malay war canoe? 10. In parts of America settled by the Spaniards a pueblo is (a) a town or village; (b) a fiery mustang; (c) a widebrimmed hat? 11. Papilionaceous is merely a longwinded way of saying something resembles (a) a butterfly; (b) edible grasses; (c) grain used by millers? 12. How far must one travel from tin; coastline to be on the high seae? 13. Who is "King of the Hellenes?" 14. What colour is cerulean? 15. Properly to broil meat means (a) to fry it in a saucepan; (b) to cook it over coals or on a gridiron; (c) to steam itr