ARE YOU SURE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13240, 16 January 1941, Page 2

ARE YOU SURE

A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TEST

1. When was shrapnel first used? Who invented it? 2. The Pan-American Conference has just been prominently in the news. What does Pan mean? 3. Who described the Navy as the Empire’s “Sure Shield” and when? (a) Jellicoe. (b) King George V., (c) Lloyd George, (d) Winston Churchill. 4. Can you complete two verses from Psalm 107 beginning—

They that go down to the sea ships.j 5. How many pennies are in circulation —

(a) 180,000.000, (b) 1,800,000,000, (c) 18,000,000,000. 6. What are the Queen's three Christian names?

7. Who was the first Sir Winston Churchill? Who was his son? 8. Disintegration means breaking up. Take away three letters, add two and make a word meaning the opposite—building up.

9. In what counties are(a) Aldershot, (b) St. Andrews, (c) Suminerseat, (d) Tewkesbury. 10.. What is the “ology” that means the scientific study of the prevention and punishment of crime? 11. A broker unable to meet his commitments on ’Change would be (a) Struck off the rolls, (b) hammered, (c) dismissed the House. 12. What animal when it has a nervous breakdown is described as a “shiverer”?

13. Complete the following—(a) The Hanging Gardens of —, {h) Dante and —, (c) Laura and , (d) Don Quixote and —. 14. Who rode thees horses — (a) Black Bess, (b) Xanthos. 15. What are the correct or modern names of these towns — (a) City of Dreaming Spires and Lost Causes, (b) Verulam, (c) Eboracum. 16. Which were of Scottish descent — „ x (a) Lord Haig, (b) Napoleon, (c) Sir James Barrie, (d) Clive of India. 17. Which author wrote which books? Authors: —Kipling, Defoe, Scott, Darwin, Dickens, Jane Austen. Books; —Bleak House, Sense and Sensibility, Puck of Pook’s Hill, St. Ronan’s Well, Origin of Species, Robinson Crusoe.

18. Where are the Devil’s — (a) Frying Pan, (b) Garden, (c) Mother. . 19. When a farmer tells his men to use the rave, they fetch. (a) A reaper’s hook, (b)- frame to heighten sides of hay cart, (c) hurdle. (Answers on Page 6)