Do You Know
Test your general knowledge b? supplying answers to the following four questions. The correct answers will be published in our next issue and a comparison should prove interesting. A further series of questions and answers will be published daily.
(1) Who is this?
(2) Which is the port side of a ship, and which the starboard f
(3) Whose are the following “last words”: “Don’t let poor Nell starve.” “I shall hear in Heaven.” “Let down the curtain—the farce is over."?
(4) What is the name of the strip of water between Newfoundland and Labrador?
Answers to yesterday’* questions: (1) Sir Miles Lampson. (2) "The Rime of the Ancient Manner" is told by a sailor to a wedding guest. (3) A lustrum is a space of five years. (4) L.B.D. are the initial letters of the Latin libra, solidus and denarius, which correspond to our pounds ,shillings and pence.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 4
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152Do You Know Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 4
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