PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 6

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. Sidereal means starry; ethereal means heavenly: what -does boreal mean? 2. The Last Days of Pompeii was written by (a) Sir Walter Scott: <b) nni 61 ' ' V ' L,()n: <o) Lord Macaulav; (d) Thomas Carlyle? , ?■ His name was Josef Korzeniowski; he was a Pole, born in the L kraine. a captain in the British merchant marine, and a famous hhn' what name do we know ? end ,™ e a mandrill for a pet. and I will have to look up the diet .sheet of (a) a fierce West African fVnM?- Or V / f a uaint Indian iiWs snakes? et ke animal ,hat , , Scientists when referring to the physical basis of life might be expected to call it (a) pleonasm; (b) ueutoplasm; (c) protoplasm? 6. The Great Plague of London occurred in 1660 and the Great Fire of London (a) in 166G; <b) 10 years later; (c) 10 years earlier? 7 The ever-popular narn tianee originated in (a) Australia; <b) America; (c) England' 8. Which of the English Kings Henry was known as Bluff King 9. This one was bound to creeD in sooner or later: A snail climbs up the side of a well, it manases tn rise 3ft every day, but durfn# lach do T n 2ft " If the well reaTthL gh summit " nS W '" " 131(6 10 10. Is a natterjack (a) a homp made scone in West Virginia* (b°the long pennant flown by an admiral on PaUov H e? W FS?iv y al' ayS ,he Je " lsh (Answers on Page Nine.)