PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 11

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. Xo apologies. This is a teaser. A man buys a turkey. 2 ducks and Cowls for i' 4. The price of 2 dueks and :> fowls is the same as :> turkeys; and .5 fowls cost as much as 2 ducks. W hat did cach bird cost? 2. King Arthur's knights .sat at a round table fa) because the light was bad; <b> because they held round table conferences: <c> to indicate that none ranked higher than another? If you are a keen student of nature, you will be able to say that when a cow pets up from the ground it rises fa> front end first: rear end first; 'O straightens all four lees at once? 4. Deaf mutes communicate with each other through an alphabet known as:—-Menology. myology, dactylology. phraseology, horology? Which or these did Germainlose to the Allies in the last war:— Togoland. Cameroons, Tanganyika. South-West Africa? 6. In which part of the world were —'a' The Garden of Eden: 'b> S'neba (< i Lost Land of Lvonesse. Vale of Avalon. 'c> Thuie. <f) Eldorado?

7. Br;ti>h Commander-in-Chief Galkpoli in ]!<]". wa< <a> (ienera! Sir lan Hamilton. <bi doners! Sir \V;|. iiani Birdwood. << • 1 Ma: -j.aI I.ord Plumer? "v These arc f.in. <;o\ern-nu-nt of the iKunli-. bv tl.i rx-oplc. for ihe people; '»•)' Tllf-V -ila!l II o* l>a>>: '( • I.ibertv. K«;i:a!:v Fratei • nity. .(it Man :s born fiec. and everyv. he:c ho i> in < bam-. •<?■ Fifth Column. With what ma:i .■: e\ent do you a»Niij;t ihem" f Chri-'ir.n namec of .. urea* Fnp-h.-h historian nr.d c.-sa;, i.-i were 'lhoinas Babmpton. Surname was 'a' Carlyle. 'b> Macaulay. Mor lev? 10. What preat Uanslaiioii will always bo a><oeiated with the name of Fdward Fl'zpcraM* 11. Who r-r.flov.r-" 1 -hf Prize, am: w;th v. ha' i- it a--o v .aied" 1 12. A ruffle is 'a' r.iph lace collar worn bv weii-dressed men :n "ho flays of Good Kinp Charie= <Vo French pa«-r\\ i • European fresnwater fish - * (An.-" •.•r Parf 1 )