Now You Know!
TO-DAY’S ANSWERS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TESTS The following are the answers to the questions ou the Leader Page of today’s issue:— 1— The Gloucestershire Regim'mt, as a memento of a battle in which the rear ranks faced about and repelled an attack by the enemy. 2 Tbo suggestion is that each one is anol her peg in your coffin. 3 To allow for the expansion of the rails in hot weather; otherwise they would buckle up. 4 A watertight enclosure built on a river or ocean-bed, the water being pumped out to enable the foundations of a bridge or other structure to be laid. 5. —William Shields, of Durham, 6 No, only sued for actual proved damage. 7 The dove of money; not money. 8— John Wesley, sermon XCII. 9 It was named after its introducer, Admiral Vernon, nicknamed “Old Grog,” from his habit of wearing a cloak of grogram (gros grain). 10— Strictly speaking, Greek. 11 — Because it has no ‘ 1 nap. ’ ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19983, 28 October 1927, Page 8
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165Now You Know! Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19983, 28 October 1927, Page 8
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