PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1942, Page 6

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. If, said Snodgrass, removing his pipe from his mouth and Regarding me mildly through his spectacles, a family consists of sons and daughters . . . Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers, but each daughter has just as many brothers as sisters. How many were there of each in the family?

2. The American Declaration of Independence was the work chiefly of (a) George Washington; (b) Amerigo Vespucci: (c) Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia?

3. Of what American was it said, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow-country-men"?

4. Washington in 1796 set the precedent that a President of the U.S. should not accept nomination for a third term. Who broke the precedent?

5. If you have ever sung heynonny nonny in a nonet, you will be able to give a musician's definition of nonet.

6. In days of peace the popular seaside resort of the Lancashire and Yorkshire factory hands is (a) Wigan; (b) Blackpool; (c) Margate? 7. Nearest seaside resort to London is: (a) Dover; (b) Brighton; (c) Wi ngleton-on-Sa nrl=?

S. Stone wails do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. . . So wrote: (a) Richard Lovelace; (b) John Bunyan; (c) Joseph Addison? . 9. If you were invited to a soiree, you would expect to go to: (a) an evening party; (b) a smoke social; (c) a card evening? 10. Dandie Dinmont is (or was): (a) a famous actor of the time of Charles II.; (b) famous English vaudevillian; (c) a breed of terriers? 31. Femoral means: (a) belonging to the thighbone or thigh; (b) high fever): (c) relating to womenkind? 12. How many yards in a furlong? (Answers on page 9)