How Much Do You Know?

Northern Advocate, 3 June 1939, Page 4 (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 v,t the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet.

EXAMPLE—O: The Prime Minister of New Zealand is (1) Coates, (21 Holland, »3) Semple, (4) Savage, (5) Forbes.

Savage is the correct answer The number of this question it O; the number 4 (meaning Savage) has been placed ai the right of O on the answer sheet.

At the end of the Test check your replies with the answers given op Page G and DON’T PEEP.

(In our opinion. 5 is a good

are no prizes.)

I—London this week was the scene of a gathering of 4,000)300 wives of: (D musicians; (2) politicians: (3> Sinn Feiners; 14) freebooters; (ft) farmers.

score. 7 very good indeed. There

2Mr Richard Crooks stated in Sydney this week that he had left New Zealand without any: (T) trousers; (2) money; (3) credit; (4) honour; (5) unhappy memories. 3 Everybody will recognise Mr Crooks’ name as that of a worldfamous: (1) actor; (2) wrestler; (3) senior wrangler; (4) singer; (5) financier. 4 While in London, Mr Nash. New Zealand Finance Minister, has been conferring with the Dominions Secretary, whom you will be guessing right if you state is: (1) Mr Malcolm MacDonald; (2) Lord Dawson of Penn; (3) Sir Thomas Inskip; (4) Mr Anthony Eden; (5) Sir Oswald Mosley.

s—Canada5 —Canada has decided to put its foot down firmly and stop alien: (1) folk-dancing; (2) immigration; (3) emigration; (4) propaganda; (5) espionage.

G—ln connection with the Royal visit, Quebec is objecting to alleged slurs on its: (1) loyalty; (2) weather; (3) taxi . services; (4) hotel accommodation; (5) traffic control.

7—During their Canadian tour, the King and Queen were accorded a tumultuous welcome at Vancouver, which is capital of the state of: (1) Ontario; (2) Manitoba; (3) British Columbia; (4) Saskatchewan; (5) Hudson Bay.

S—Reports state that Spanish and Italian troops may be supplied to assist: (1) China; (2) Bolivia; (3) the Canadian Mounted Police; (4) Japan; (5) White Russians.

9—A scheme inaugurated in Whangarei in the interests of road safety relies on: (1) more pedestrian crossings; (2) coloured traffic lights; (3) extended street lighting; (4) safety zones; (5) schoolboy patrols.

10— Underground war against Nazis is reported in: (1) Austria; (2) Poland; (3) Russia; (4) Czechoslovakia; (5) Bavaria. 11— Members of the organisation state that it is a waste of time to attend meetings of the Whangarei; (1) Borough Council; (2) Harbour Board; (3) High School Board; (4) Chamber of Commerce; (5) Hospital Board. 12— “Essential to building a nation” is how the Prime Minister describes the: (1) defence scheme; (2) import restrictions; (3) social security measures; (4) guaranteed prices; (5) sales tax. 13— Latest effort by Hon. D. G. Sullivan has been to set up a tribunal to control: (1) the birth rate; (2) radio broadcasts; (3) railway goods charges; (4) price rises; (5) maternity benefits. 14 — A £70,000,000 deficit is faced by: f 1) Germany; C2) Spain; (3) Italy; (4) Great Britain; (5) Ireland. 15 — The first flying boat for the trans-Tasman service has made her maiden flight. She is named the: (1) Sydney; (2) Mau Pomare; (3) Aotearoa; (4) Abel Tasman; (5) Australia.

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