PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 4

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. Some people study the clouds, as occupation which is known as cloudy thinking, meteorology, nephology, strataspherology? 2. What type of motor car owes its name to that, of a province in France? 3. What is the meaning of the phrase: "Sic transit gloria mundi"? 4. Oxygen was discovered by: Galileo, Dr. Joseph Priestley and Scheele, Madame Curie's husband? -5. Does the earth revolve round the sun every: Day, day and night, lunar month, year, summer, winter? 6. There are 92 islands in the Seyschelles group in the Indian Ocean, and they belong to: Japan, U.S.A., Australia, Britain? 7. Launcelot Gobbo was the whimsical clown in: "The Merchant of Venice," "Twelfth Night," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Les Miserables"? 8. If you found your office desk all over smitch, would it be covered with: Dust, soot, down from a goose's breast, pollen? 9. Without consulting a map, you should be able to say which of Aden and Alexandria is at the Indian Ocean end of the Suez Canal. 10. An electrolier is: An electric trolley, a cluster of electric lights, an electric winch for lifting heavy cargo? 11. You have heard of the Philharmonic Society? Good; then what does a person have to be to be philharmonic? 12. If you were handed sealed orders, when would you open them? (Answers on Page 8.)