Do You Know?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 6

Do You Know?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA To-day’s genera! knowledge test is devoted to facts about South Africa. The questions are as follows, the answers being on Page Eight:— 1— What portions of the Continent, of Africa comprise tho Dominion known as the Union of South Africa! 2 What arc the distinctions between the following possessions of the British Crown in the Continent of " Africa, namely:—(a) The Union of South Africa; (b) Southern Pho desia; and (c) his Majesty’s East African Dependencies? 3 Who were the early mariners who discovered the Southern sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope! When was the first European settlement established at the Cape of Good Hope, and by whom? 5 What bearing did the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France have upon South A/rican history in 1688! 6 When was the Cape of Good Hope finally ceded to Great Britain 7 Can you name the chief (a.) gold, (b) diamond, (c) sugar, (d) coal producing areas in South Africa 8— What is tho present European population of the Union of South Africa! 9 Who arc the present (a) CFovemorGcncral and (b) Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa? 10 —What are the meanings of (a) th< veld, (b) tho karoo, (c) naartjes!