QUESTIONS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11931, 24 January 1936, Page 4

QUESTIONS

THE ANSWERS KNOWLEDGE TEST. Answers to the general knowledge questions printed on Page 3 are gi'en below: 1. Republic. The Ataturk. (Mustapha Kemal). 2. Thomas Huxley (visited Australia with H.M.S. Rattlesnake scientific expedition). , 3. Most famous of Indo-Moslem buildings; marble mausoleum at Agra, built by Mogul emperor Shah Jehan. 4. The study of man (his physical origins, the development of his language, religions ideas, social institutions and the like). 5. Sir Thomas More (beheaded by Henry VIII., 1535 ). 6. Istanbul. Indian Poet. 7. On south-west shore of the Caspian Sea. One of the Socialist Soviet Republics: Baku is the capital. 8. Leading poet and writer of India: Nobel Prize, 1913, knighted 1915.

9. Unit used in calculation of astronomical distances; the distance travelled by light (at 186,000 miles a second) in one year, or nearly six billion miles. 10. That the diurnal movement of the stars is apparent only, due to the earth itself rotating: and that the earth is a planet, revolving about

the sun. 11. Religious and philosophic system of China, of which Lao-Tse is regarded as the founder; "Tao” is “The Way.” 12. George Vancouver, British navigator (1757-98). 13. Joseph Conrad. 14. Kabul. Force of Treaty.

15. An agreement between Stales having the force of a treaty. 16. That industry and trade should bo allowed to develop without any form of government control of labour conditions, and without import or export dues on goods. 17. Rule by the rich. IS. Aestivation.

19. The Ten Commandments. 20. Great defeat of Italian armies during Great War tOclober-Novem-ber, 1917), with loss of nearly 200,000 prisoners).