Do You Know ?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 4

Do You Know ?

Test your general knowledge by supplying answers to the following foui questions. The correct answers will be published m our next issue and a comparison should prove interesting. A further series of questions and answers will be published daily.

11) Who is this?

(2) Who was the author of: “But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near?” (3) What is the crest and motto of the Prince of Wales? (4) When were tlie Pink and White Terraces destroyed ? Answers to yesterday’s questions: (1) Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, whose work for the facade of the British Medical Association’s building and monument to W. H. Hudson, the naturalist, were much criticised. (2) The Maori proverb is "Through woman and land is man lost”—these being the most common causes of tribal troubles. (3) The seat of Government was removed from Auckland to Wellington in February, 1865. (4) The story goes that among the early settlers in Australia was a body of Puritans called “vowzhers,” after the founder of their sect, and that some of them, on getting into hot water, were brought before the court. “Are they members of a religious sect?” inquired the magistrate. “Yes, your Worship,” said the police sergeant, “they’re wowsers.”