PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 4

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1 "Kabloona" is the title of a best selling book about the Eskimos. Kabloona, as any Eskimo will tell you instantly, means: (a) White man; (b) Arctic circles under your eyes;(c) the Eskimo's best friend is his igloo? 2 Talking about best sellers, Eric Linklater wrote at least one. Something in the title about poetry and an inn. Remember the title? 3. Amanuensis, after all, is only another word, meaning (a) creeping paralysis; (b) flowering creeper; (c) secretary? 4. If one of our gallant American visitors prevailed on you to give him a barbescue, would you hand him (a) steak grilled over the open fire; (b) a framework for smoking or drying meat; (c) an ox or hog roasted whole? 5. What is the land of cakes? 6. A pachyderm, as you'll remember, is the term for: (a) A birthmark; (b) a malformed joint; (c) a thickskinned animal such as an elephant? 7. Phi Beta Kappa is one of the American college fraternities—the oldest, I am credibly informed. It is all Greek to me, but what do those three words mean? Does subterminal mean: (a) Second last; (b) nearly at the end; (c) below rock bottom? 9. A tropist is: (a) An expert in "going troppo"; (b) one who uses figure of speech; (c) an orchid hunter? 10. What British Order is represented uy the letters G.C.M.G. 11. How are you on phobias? What, for example, as zenophobia? 12. Could you, for the life of you, name the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? (Answers on Page 8)