Do You Know?
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TO-DAY’S QUESTIONNAIRE To-day’s general knowledge test if as follows, the answers being on Page Eight:— 1 — When does Summer Time begin in New Zealand? 2 Whore is John Wesley’s original pulpit? 3 What special (device marked the wood carvings of Grinling Gibbons 4 What is the significance of the strawberry leaf in a peer’s coronet? 5 Was .Dick Whittington ever ‘ T Lord” Mayor of London? 6 Whence came the unicorn in the Royal Arms? 7 What was the origin of “Brother Jonathan” as a name for the American people? 8— Where is a day gained or lost in travelling round the world? 9 What is the difference between? solar time and sidereal time? 10—What planet travels at the rate of 68,000 miles per hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 6
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129Do You Know? Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 6
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