PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 11 (Supplement)

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. How would you define a gadget? 2. Who was the first person to plant a vineyard and get intoxicated? city was ruled by the 4. Before he committed suicide, the worps 'What an artist is lost in me" were uttered by (a) Nero; <b) Chatterton, the boy poet; (c) Diogenes? 5- One man wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress," "The Holy War ,p and *-»race Abounding." Who was he? ,A "Tannhauser" was composed in ~.j 0 by (a) Richard Wagner; (b) Ludti.s y, an Beethoven; (c) John Sebastian Bach? -nli What.is an eclipse of the sun 11 an eclipse of the moon called? 9 r . ee k philosopher condemned «rmk hemlock by the Athenians

was (a) Aristides; (b) Socrates; (c) Archimedes? 9. Nicaragua is the largest (a) mountain; (b) lake; (c) river in South America? 10. Pultusk, in Poland, is memorable as the place (a) where Hitler has his military headquarters; (b) where Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1806; (c) where the Steppes begin? 11. Piggy Whidden is (a) smallest pig of a Titter in Cornwall; (b) famous Irish actress in davs of Charles II.; (c) Lord Derby's favourite steeplechaser? 12. There is an ironical thought about the fact that the Statue of Liberty was given to U.S.A. by (a) France; (b) Germany; (c) Poland? (Answers on Page 15.)