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Test your general knowledge by supplying answers to the tollowing four questions. The correct answers-will be published in our next issue and a compa-i--son should prove interesting. A further series of questio ’.l and answers will be published daily. (1) Who is this? (2) tV here is the longest tunnel in the British Empire and what is its length? (3) The States of America are often known by abbreviations ,such as Va. for Virginia, Mont, for Montant. Which is the only name not abbreviated ? (4) Who is the only Channel swimmer who has crossed from Dover to Calais? Answers to Saturday’s questions: (1) Mme. Curie, co-discoverer, with her husband Pierre, of radium. She was born in 1867 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911. (2) He sang Darius, great and good, By two severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood. From “Aexander’s Feast.” by John Dry len. (3) The London Cenotaph was designed by Sir Edwin L. Lutyens. (4) The full name of Para, which is never used now-, is Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 September 1927, Page 4
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193Do You Know? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 September 1927, Page 4
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