PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 6

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

(Answers On Page 11)

1. If (and the thing is wildly possible) you had a window 4ft high and 3ft wide, and you took it into your head to cut out half the light which entered by the window, and yet have the window 4ft high and 3ft wide, how could it be done?

2. If you came suddenly upon a canephorus, you would be face to face with (a) the statue of a youth or maid with a basket on the head; (b) a drug used for curing headache; (c> a factery where sugar cane is treated?

3. There's a girl down our street who simply cannot help being erubescent, which means that she (a) is always seeing the funny side of things; <b) can't bear spiders, ants, or, indeed, any creepy-crawlies; (c) blushes furiously whatever you say to her?

4. What part of a Gothic church spire is the finial?

5. To be classed as "intermontane" you would have to (a) have lived in all the big cities of the world; (b) be equally efficient as a night worker or a day worker; (c) dwell among the mountains?

6. You wouldn't be far wrong if you used juniper berries, (a) to cure gout; (b) to flavour gin; (c) to remove ink stains?

7. Rose hips are being used in wartime Kngland to supply a vitamin deficiency in children. What are rose hips? And what is the difference between hips and haws? 8. Would you say that the colour magenta was (a) red or crimson; (b) bluish-purple; (c) flaming yellow? 9. What is meant by the expression "the old Adam"?

10. Tho , Nature, red in tooth and claw,

With ravine, shriek'd against his . creed. Was that written by (a) Shakespeare; (b) the apostle Paul; (c) Tennyson? 11. Oxyblepsia is: A cattle disease; a method of welding metalsvery keen sight; a lighter-than-air gas?