PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS
1. Remember Robinson Crusoe's Man Friday? Going back one day, "The Man Who Was Thursday," was written by: G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, A. P. Herbert? 2. There is an Australian river in Victoria, the name of which spells the same backwards as forwards. Know it? 3. If you speak of things articular, you refer to: One's limbs; accent; tongue? 4. That Indian fig tree with vast rooting branches is called: Banksia, banyan, balsam, baobab? 5. Which members of the British House, of Commons normally occupy the cross benches? 6. What is a professor emeritus? 7. If you had a copy of an old Gutenberg Bible'what would you be likely to get for it? 8. Would the sun, the moon, or the planet Jupiter be the centre of a helio-centrical mass? 9. When railwaymen sj-saK of a light engine, what do they mean? 10. In what position would vou be lying down to be procumbent? 11. What do these abbreviations mean: R.N.V.R., R.T.0., R.S.M. R.S.P.P.? 12. To what great English public school does a Wykehamist belong? (Answers on Page 8)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1943, Page 4
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