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fest your general knowledge by supplying answers to the following four questions. The correct answers will be published in our next issue and a oomna-i--son should prove interesting. A further series of questiota and answers will be published daily. (1) Who is thief (2) Who defined oats as “a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”? (3) What is the height of the crossbar of a Rugby goal post? <4) What is a palindrome? Answers to yesterday’s questions: (1) Clarence Chamberlain, who, with Mr. Levine, hew the Atlantic. (2) lhe British Empire’s longest railway tunnel is the Otira tunnel in the South Island, 6.31 miles long. (3) Ltah is the only State in the Union whose name is not abbreviated. (4) Captain Matthew Webb who swam from Dover to Calais in 1875, taking 21hrs 43min., is the only swimmer who has done so.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 September 1927, Page 4
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154Do You Know? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 September 1927, Page 4
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