How Much Do You Know?

Northern Advocate, 14 January 1939, Page 6

How Much Do You Know?

WHAT TO DO

Five possible answers are given .■'or eacft question. You select what you think is the correct answer, and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the 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 O; the number 4 (meaning Savage) has been placed at the right of O on the answer sheet. At the end of the Test check your replies with the answers given on Page 14 and DON’T PEEP. (In our opinion, 10 fs a good score, ID very good indaad. There are no prizes.! 1

1— The Nunneley Casket has been inthe news. This ’sports trophy is awai'ded fcr: Q) tennis; (2) cricket; (3) swimming; (4) bowls; (5) athletics. <■ * «■ 2 And talking, of. sport, a Whangarei bowler is doing splendidly at the New Zealand bowling championships. All bowlers will know that he was: (1) J. H. Marwick; (2) B, R. Miller; (3)’ M. Greville; (4) M. F. M. Whitelaw; (5) D. X. McLeod. « • * 3 Labour troubles saw stoppage of work at a Dominion coal mine this week. The mine concerned is at: (1) Hikurangi; (2) Kamo; (3) Huntly; (4) Taupiri; (5) Westport. o c »

10— t! A century of war” has been predicted for his country by*an army leader in: (1) Germany; (2) Great Britain: (3) tlaly; (4) Soviet Russia; (5) Japan. # »Jt * • *.* 11— Tom Mooney was re:eased early this week after having been 22 years in an American prison fdt: Cl) murder; (2) bombinb; f 3) arson; (4) treason; (5) bootlegging. • • k h ’ ¥'■ 12.—A plot against Kang Carol has been frustrated. He is monarch of (1) Poland; (2) Italy; (3) Greece; (4) Rumania; (5) Denmark. ’ # # ■ ■-■Ji'j'd 13—France is to embark on a big pr 6-» gramme of (1) poor relief; (2) rer

4 —The claim to tie launching the world’s biggest and fastest battleship is now being made by; (1) Germany; (2) Great Britain; (3) United States; (4) Italy; (5) Russia.

s—Designed to check the decline in a Northland industry, a fixed price has been set,for: (1) coal; (2) ironsand; (3) skins and hides; (4) kauri gum; (5) limonite.

6—Von Nida won the Philippine open golf championship. - Ho is a native of; Cl) Germany; f2) Austria; (3) Canada; (4- the Philippines; (5Australia. * A A A

7 Dr. Edmund de S, Brunner has criticised the New Zealand Government. Avid readers of the news will know that he is: (1) A member of thd German Reich; (2) A United States university professor; (3) an English financier; (4) . a South African medical authority; (5- a Filipino sprinter. • j* , * * 8— The Duke of Windsor may return to England .for:, (1) the' opening ... ... of Parliament; (2) Pancake Day; (3) his birthday; (4) to'launch a battleship; (5 to swim the channel. ' 9 Rather Volosin believes in the emancipation of the Ukraine. He is premier of: (I) Poland; (2) Czechoslovakia; (3) Greece; (4) Switzerland; (5) Ruthenia.

storation of churches; (3)pujbl|c works; 4) highway lighting;,-(5) naval construction. - -U 14— It is said that Japan has purchased from the U.S.A. BiOOO.Oflib dollars’ worth of (1) toys; (2) aeroplanes; (3) road machinery; (4). motor : cars; (5) gas masks. ‘‘ ;’ * * « 15— It is feared that Centennial arrangements in New Zealand may be affected by (1) the weather} (2) war; (3) trade decrees; (4) public health; (5) lack of finance.