Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

Peter Simple's Posers

(Answers on Page 4.) 1. What office does Prince Konoye hold, and in what country? 2. Spatulate leaves are (a) spoonshapedi (ib) deciduous; (c) transparent ? 3. Would you say unhesitatingly that the number of pounds in a ton is (a) 5280; (b) 1760; (c) 2240? What part of your hand is the Mount of Venus? 5. The colonel-sahib tells« me that in Poona a syce is (a) a groom; (b) something very hot in curries; (c) a saintly person? 6. A young Australian, now abroad, has recently been dubbed "Gentleman Jim." Who is he, and where ? 7. What is an agent-provocateur?

8. Face to face with a dyak, you would know it as (a) one of the aboriginal Tace of Borneo; (b) the Indian pipe of peace; (c) an Eskimo canoe? 9. Sealyham is a breed of terrier. Is it allied to the Welsh, Irish, or Scottish terrier ? 10. What is the common everyday term for British Government Consolidated Stock ? 11. Where and what is the Land o' the Leal? 12. What country is sometimes called the Isle of Saints? .13. The Merry Monarch was (a) Charles II.; (b) Henry VIII.; (c) Ethelred the Unready? • 14. According to the dictionary, the "occult sciences" are those imaginary sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the influence of supernatural powers. Can you name them? . , 15. In France they call it the pari mutuel. In N.Z, it ia known aa—?