How Much Do You Know?

Northern Advocate, 27 April 1940, Page 13

How Much Do You Know?

1. —The first line of Wordsworth’s poem is “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” and the second is: (1) O’er hills encircled by .a shroud; (2) Where flowers were brightest, fair and proud; (3) That float, on high o’er vales and hills; (4) Through dreary streets of pubs and mills; (5) Where shops sold bottles, herbs and pills. 2. —Cavalleria Rusticana was written by: (1) Mozart; (2) Puccini; (3) Mascagni; (4) Verdi; (5) Wagner. 3. —Medusa was: (1)A fabulous horse; (2) A Greek god; (31 A country; (4) A woman with snaky locks who turned the beholder into stone; (5) One of the Argonauts. 4. —Brass is an alloy of: (1) Tin and copper; (2) Tin and zinc; (3) Copper and zinc; (4) Tin and lead; (5) Iron and lead. 5. —Coney fur is: (1) Rabbit skin; (2) Skunk; (3) Silver fox; (4) Musquash; (5) Bear. 6. —The pengo is a coin of: (1) Greese; (2) Portugal; (3) Yugoslavia; (4) Denmark; (5) Hungary. 7. —The longest river in New Zealand is: (1) Clutha; (2) Wanganui; (3) Waitaki; (4) Waikato; (5) Clarence. 8. —The river’s length is: (1) 175 miles; (2) 220; (3) 376; (4) 197; (5) 210. 9. —Otago was founded in: (1) 1854; (2) 1865; (3) 1839; (4) 1848; (5) 1850. 10. —Penny postage was adopted in New Zealand in: (1) 1910; (2) 1923; (3) 1932; (4) 1901; (5) 1899. 11. Have a guess at this. The number of cells in a square foot of honeycomb is: (1) 20,000; (2) 9000; (3) 10,000; (4) 400; (5) 700. 12. —4i per cent of £1 is: (1) lOd; (2) 7Ad; (3) lid; (4) 6id; (5) 1/1. 13. —A latitudinarian is: (1) A navigator; (2) A map-maker; (3) A free thinker; (4) A member of a religious body; (51 A man who eats only meat. 14. —Stavanger, in the war news, is a centre for the export of: (1) Iron ore; (2) Timber; (3) Sardines; (4) Aluminium; (5) Pulp. 15. Murmansk, the Russian port is on: (1) The Gulf of Bothnia; (2) White Sea; (3) Sea of Azov; (4) Black Sea: (5) Arctic Ocean. (Answers appear on page 5)