PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 198, 21 August 1943, Page 4

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. The Bab Ballads were written by Kelly, Shelley, Keats, William Schwenk Gilbert? 2. What is the name of the fish -yielding caviare? 3. Of what university is a Cantabridgian a member. 4. Moments in summer and in winter when the sun is farthest from the equator are known* as: Equinoxes, solstices, Indian summers? 5 There is something noteworthy about Mounts Everest, GodwinAusten, and Aconcagua. What is it? 6. You know just how to cope with a dolobra, because it is a: Roman pickaxe, Spanish gold coin, spring flood in Southern Italy? 7. The figure 206 refers to: Number of bones in your body, highest score reached by Don Bradman in Test cricket, number of medals on Goering's latest tunic? 8. Be careful, now. Radius of the earth is: 4000 miles, 184,000 miles, 5280 miles? 9. What was the name given by the ancients to an imaginary belt extending Bdeg on each side of the Ecliptic and containing, the orbits of the planets? vlO. Remember the Biblical reference to adding a cubit to one's stature? Length of-a cubit is: 1.824 ft, ; 2ft, 3ft? 11. Would you say that the Atlantic is deeper than" the Pacific? What are the approximate depths? 12. That fruity old chronicler Samuel Pepys wrote his Diary: In shorthand, in. Greek, in bed?

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