How Much Do You Know?

Northern Advocate, 17 February 1940, Page 8

How Much Do You Know?

1. —The most commercially valuable animal in the world is: (1) The sheep; (2) mink; (3) cow; (4) chinchilla; (5) musquash. 2. —The greatest advocate of free trade was: (1) Gladstone; (2) Pitt; (3) Adam Smith; (4) Shaftsbury; (5) Churchill. 3. —The Roman numerals DL stand for: (1) 550; (2) 440; (3) 780; (4) 710; (5) 600. 4. A Panegyric is: (1) A bird; (2) a reptile; (3) an eulogistic oration or writing; (4) an epic poem; (.5) A Greek temple. 5. —How do you spell the mattress on which soldiers sleep. Is it: G) Paillase; (2) Palliasse; (3) Paliasse; (4) P.alliase; (5) Palliaisse. 6. —ln a three-masted sailing ship the mast called the main mast is: (1) The first mast; (2) middle mast; (3) third mast; (.4) none of the masts; (5) the jack staff. 7 —Poets have called one of the heavenly bodies Cynthia, which body is this. Is it: (1) The sun; (2) Moon; (3) Venus; (4) Mars; (5) Uranus. 3.—Covent Garden, in addition to being an opera house, is: (1) A playing field; (2) a public garden; (3) a fruit, flower and vegetable market; (4) a racecourse; (5) a Royal Palace. 9.—Glass was first brought to England in: (1) 720; (2) 663; (3) 1120; (4) 1460; (5) 937. 10. —Gramophone records were first made in: (1) 1863; (2) 1898; (3) 1810; (4) 1854; (5) 1878. 11. —Accompanying Lord Willingdon to Waitangi was his private secretai'y: <1) Lord Dormer; (2) Lord Errington; (3) Lord Snell; (4) Lord Derby; (5) Lord Halifax. 12. —One of these islands in the Mediterranean was .a Kingdom within the past 150 years: (1) Corsica; (2) Malta; (3) Cyprus; (4) Sardinia; (5) Sicily. 13. —The new name for Siam is: (1) Thailand; (2) East China; (3) Sailand; (4) Indo-Siam; (5) Malayan China. 14. One of these countries has a white rajah: (1) Borneo; (2) Togoland; (3) Sarawak; (4) Bali; (5) Sumatra. 15—King Ibu Saud, is king of: (1) Egypt; (2) Irak; (3) Syria; (4) Palestine: <5) Arabia.