HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

What To Do FIVE possible answers are given for each question. You select what you think is the correct answer, and put its number on the line at the right of the number of thei question on the answer sheet. Example.—o: The Prime Minister of New Zealand is (1) Coates, (2) Holland, (3) Semple, (4) Savage, (5) Forbes. Savage is the correct answer. The number of this question is 0; the number 4 (meaning Savage) has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet. At the end of the Test check your replies with the answers given on Page 2. AND DON’T PEEP. In our opinionrsO is a good score, 25 very good indeed. There are no prizes.

1 — A visitor to Whangarei this week was Professor R. M. Algie, who is prominent in the: (1) New Zealand Farmers’ Union; (2) Compensated Price Campaign; (3) National Party; (4) Auckland Freedom Association; (5) Local Body Employees’ Union. 2 The Minister of Industries and Commerce has promised help to the New Zealand industry for the production of: (1) Lemons; (2) Potatoes; (3) Tomatoes; (4) Wheat; (5) Tobacco. 3 Trouble is reported to be brewing between Japan and the Soviet in: (1) Korea; (2) Yucatan; (3) Manchukuo; (4) Jehol; (5) Siberia.

7 Bloodshed has been reported at Costa Rico, which is in; (1) Germany; (2) Central America; (3) West Africa; (4) The Balkans; (5) South America. 8 — Prominent in the news this week has been the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, who is: (1) Dr. Goebbels; (2) Dr. Benes; (3) Baron von Franckenstein; (4) Dr. Hodza; (5) Dr. Dirksen. 9 The final of the Northland Rugby League senior championship was set down for this afternoon between Hikurangi and: (1) City; (2) Whakapara; (3) Kensington; (4) Kamo; (5) Takahiwai. 10— Interest centres on a Whangarei institution which is said to be inadequate for present needs. This is the: (1) Town Hall; (.2) Railway station; (3) Girls’ high school; (4) Harbour board office; (5) Primary school. 11— A Northland hospital has also come into the news this week on the grounds of being inadequate, namely, that at: (1) Te Kopuru; (2) Paparoa; (3) Whangarei; (4) Kawakawa; (5) Mangonui. 12— The assassination of Dr. Dollfuss has been the subject for a celebration in Vienna. Dr. Dollfuss

4 A prominent English diplomat is acting as mediator in the Sudeten German question. He is; (1) Lord Nuffield; (2) Mr Neville Chamberlain; (3) Major Attlee; (4) Lord Runciman; (5) Sir Anthony Eden. 5 The Sudeten German difficulty, of course, has its location in; (1) Italy; (2) Austria; (3) Switzerland; (4) Poland; (5) Czechoslovakia. 6 This week’s news states that last year there was a decreased output in Great Britain’s: (1) Iron; (2) Coal; (3) Steel; (4) Aeroplanes; (5) Cotton.

was Austrian; (1) Premier; (2) President; (3) Chancellor; (4) Dictator; (5) Secret service agent. 13— And he was assassinated by: (1) Jews; (2) Nazis; (3) Fascists; (4) Communists; (5) The Ku Klux Klan. 14 — Australia has won the Ashes from English cricketers, the deciding Test being the: (1) First; (2) Second; (3) Third; (4) Fourth; (5) . Fifth. 15— A large death-roll attended tire crash of an aeroplane at Bogata, which is in: (1) Spain; (2) Columbia; (3) Italy; (4) Portugal; (5) Cuba. 16 — A plot for the smuggling of heroin has been uncovered in New York. Heroin is: (1) Poison gas; (2) Alcoholic liquor; (3) A drug; (4) Stage make-up colour; (5) A female screen star. 17— The newly elected president of the Whangarei Racing Club is; (1) Mr. J. W. Hoskin; (2) Mr. J. G. Barclay; (3) Mr R. G. Hosking; (4) Mr L. R. Nelson; (5) Mr K. G. M. Kelly. 18— Danzig is being terrorised by a campaign against; (1) Nazis; (2) Blackshirts; (3) Communists; (4) Christians; 15) Jews.

19 — And Danzig is in: (1) Poland; (2) Switzerland; (3) Austria; (4) New Guinea; (5) Denmark. 20— The two leading teams in the Whangarei senior Rugby championship are Hikurangi and; (1) City; (2) Old Boys; (3) Pipiwai; (4) Kamo; (5) ’Karamea. 21 — A donation of £SO to the Tikipunga Orphanage Fund has been made by the Whangarei: (1) Cruising Club; (2) Bowling Club; (3) Racing Club; (4) Tennis Club; (5) Young Businessmen’s Club. 22 Everybody knows what Basques are these days. They are: (1) Castles in Spain; (2) French prisons; (3) Spanish provincial people; (4) Italian police; (5) Fencing-masks. 23 Substantial improvements are being planned for a Whangarei recreation area, namely: (1) Rugby Park; (2) Central Park; (3) Mair Park; (4) Kensington Park; (5) The Triangle Reserve. 24 — Compulsion has been urged in New Zealand for: (1) Church attendance; (2) Military training; (3) Secondary education; (4) First aid instruction; (5) Farm labour. 25 The British Foreign Secretary has been before the public eye this week. Most people will know

that he is: (1) Sir John Simon; (2) Lord Runcirnan; (3) Mr Eden; (4) Lord Halifax; (5) Sir James Barry. 26 —Public interest has also focussed on Herr Hitler’s envoy to London, namely: (1) Dr. Goebbels; (2) General Goering; ■ (3) Captain Wiedemann; (4) Dr. Hodza; (5) General Smutz. 27_We hear quite a good deal these days about Budapest, which will go down in history as the capital of: (1) Poland; (2) Sweden; (3) Turkey; (4) Austria; (5) Hungary. 28— Of course, you know who, or what, Caribs are; (1) Precious stones; (2) Turkish rulers; (3) Arabian priests; (4) A South American race of people; (5) Deepsea denizens of a rare variety. 29 — Inhabitants of one of the Pacific Islands are in a woeful plight, a typhoid outbreak having kept all ships at a distance. They belong to: (1) Tonga; (2) Samoa; (3) Sunday Island; (4) Pitcairn Island; (5) Pagopago. 30— An American tourist, who, in the wisdom of his race, should know, suggests that New Zealand would benefit by the immigration of; (1) Spaniards: (2) Jews; (3) Chinese; (.4) Japanese; (5) Aryans. ■

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