PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 187, 9 August 1941, Page 11

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. Can you work out this puzzle: A famous English warrior duke. Whose battles are renowned; A celebrated admiral. Who first the globe sailed round: A navigator who was killed By savage treachery: A noted foreign voyager Who America did see; A sailor second in command In great Trafalgar's fight: The vessel in which Xel>on fell In a struggle for the rich:. The iniiials of these ,-ix words take And place them side bv side: Then they will name, as thus arranged. The year that Xelson died. 2. Cheops, about 400!) years ago. iai had the Great Pyramid built for his tomb: <b) invented hierogA phics: 1 c-) listed the Seven Wonders Of the World? .'{. You'd use the word .-pandrel if you were ia) a botanist: 'bi architect; (c) doctor of medicine? 4. Without consulting your chemist. what are the ponular names of 'a' nitrous oxide: tb- magnesium sulphate, to sodium chloride?

5. Where i> 'a' Bridge of Sighs: <b> Brooklyn Bridge; to Tower Bridge? G. One does not have to rise to get into the news. Take the case of Captain Rolf I'ingel. Can von sav why? 7. What's chip's instrument is made after the principle of the .-pinning top? *• Hertzian wa\es (a> give vo-.i a wind-blown bob. < 1>» o'-cur durinc tidal phenomena in the Bav o~" Bundy: 'c> are the original eic-r'ro-magnetic or wireless waves 0 r». Who or what i>. Dandle D;:> mont'.' 1 * \\ ha*, do \'uu know about 1> »ri*inic or kale' 11. Old Faiih.ful is j n Yei'o-•,.• • National Park. I'.s.A. What i- •-? 12. Why should we remember 1.0t.:> Daeuerre? l.'l. Would vo'.i >av "hat ]•'• ■ State Building. X«-v. v...';.. ■- < . taller: <b> .-.hone ■. •■> . • , height as Eiffel To- j-;,. IJ. What was the \i :n,a? 15. Charles T.utwici"* I>o'ison v.*a- t "hes; seller." What name did ] use? 'An y. -i-