PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 4

PETER SIMPLE'S POSERS

1. The R.A.F. recently put Emden in the news. But when was the German raider Emden sunk by H.M.A.S. Sydney during the Great War: (a) November 9, 1914; (b) March 5, 1915; (c) June 28, 1915? 2. Your xylonite brush and comb are actually made of (a) bone; (b) celluloid; (c) tortoiseshell; (d) eggshell? 3. The diamond has something in common with soot; they are both (a) products of combustion; (b) proteins; (c) forms of carbon? 4. Villanelle means (a) female villain; (b) French verse form; (c) bird of the swallow family? 5. Undecennial means (a) vacillating; (b) beneath the earth; (c) happening every 11 years? 6. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, but was not actually of German lineage, his grandfather having gone to Bonn from (a) Antwerp; (b) Geneva; (c) Warsaw? 7. The first country in the British Empire to introduce woman suffrage was (a) Australia; (b) South Africa; (c) New Zealand? 8. The first submarine was built by a Dutchman who was in the service of (a) James I.; (b) Victoria; (c) Edward VII.? 9. Francis Walsingham was (a) an Elizabethan statesman; (b) one of Nelson's captains; (c) a Cavalier poet? 10. You know the word "individual," but what dees "dividual" mean?: (a) divisible; (b) incomplete; (c) dual? 11. Lieutenant-Colonel Carlos P. Romulo was in the news recently. He was (a) the last man to leave Batan; (b) elected President of Mexico; (c) appointed A.D.C. to General Mac Arthur? 12. We get the term "vandal" from the name of (a) a tribe of Central African cannibals; (b) a fanatical Indian religious sect; (c) a Germanic people of the sth century?

1. (a). 2. (b). 3. (c). 4. (b). 5. (c> ;. (a). 7. (c). 8. (a). 9. (a). 10. (a) il. (a) and (c). 12. (c).