PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 181, 2 August 1941, Page 13

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

3 .'--• " 1. Here is what may be termed an 5 anachronistic epitaph; there s either an inaccuracy or an impossibility in t the date. Can you detect it? Here r lies Ivan Nuffski, born Petrograd i March 12, 1893; died Moscow, t October 24, 1934." [ 2. Kipling wrote the oft-quoted • "If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and , blaming it on you." In which of his . books did it first appear? 3. What famous diarist often wrote I of his spouse as "my wife, poor t wretch?" 4 Everybody knows, the signature 3 tune of the BBOnews is "The British - Grenadiers." But what are the words r of this famous piece? 3 5. Speaking of songs, can you Jwme author and composer of "Lar.d of Hope and Glory? , * 6. Complete these stock Ph"***; ; . "Pehnv wise "; from P«" a^ I rains "; "a rod b in—L." '-" 7, Sackbut was not a butt they

■ 8. Tossing the caber is a popular turn at Highland games. The caberis (a) merely a disguised haggis; (b> long, slender, wooden spear; (c) tree trunk with branches lopped off? 9 Clinker built boats are ones in which (a) planks of hull are arranged with one projecting over the next one; (b) hull is made by* hollowing out a log; (c> planks are fitted one into another like floorboards? 10 At what rate in miles an hour is a sprinter travelling if he does 100 yards in 10 seconds? 11. Recently a Melbourne scientist saw by an instrument 'that there had been an earthquake in India. What is the instrument called? 12 Chairman of Supreme Council, USSR is: (a) Molotoff; (b) Stalin; (c) Kalinin: (d> Voroshiloff; (e) Kushenin? „.'.%.,. 13 The Euxine is (a) Finnish Jake; (b) the Black Sea; (c> Turkish mosque? • . 14 The Berlin Decree, an order aimed at the Blockade of Britain, was issued by (a) Hitler; (b) Ribbentrop: (c> Hess; (d) Napoleon back in 1806? 15 Chairman of Britain's Parliamentary Labour Party is (a) Mr. Greenwood: (b) Mr. Attlee; (O Mr. Ijees-Smith; (d) Mr. Bevin? .jufe. (Answers on Page 17.)