lest of knowledge
1. What mammal has the longest life span? 2. How small can a mirror be in which you can see yourself from head to toe? 3. The answer to this I question is found in a carol. What happened while shepherds watched their flocks by night? 4. What colour are horses which are described as dappled, and piebald? 5. What tree is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree? 6. When is a flag flown at half-mast?
7. Name the Maori who, according to the legends, snared the sun, tamed fire, and discovered new lands by pulling them up from the bottom of the sea? 8. Who was swallowed by a whale? 9. What great explorer sailed in a ship called the Endeavour? 10. What was the name of the kitten who was rolled into pastry dough and made into a roly-poly pudding? And who did this to the kitten?
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Press, 4 January 1978, Page 23
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