Do You Know
(1) Who this is? (2) Who first escaped “with the sein of my teeth'’? (3) Where “Abraham’s Bosom” is in New Zealand? (4) On what river the capital of Poland is?
Answers to Saturday’s questions: (1) Mr J L Garvin, editor of the “Observer” and editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica.” (2) In sailing, "to miss stays’’ is to fail to get round o n to the other tack. (3) Adobe is baked mud used for building. (4) An olive branch signifies peace because when Noah’s dove returned to the Ark it bore an olive leaf in its beak.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 4
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101Do You Know Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 4
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