Detect these Simple Errors and win One Guinea Prize

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 24, 23 December 1932, Unnumbered Page

Detect these Simple Errors and win One Guinea Prize

moe No. 2 Competition ‘THE competition for ; December 9 drew an exceptionally heavy mail. After _ BA very thorough examination, it wis difficult to make a decision between a subscriber at Devonport and the ultimate winner. _ Kven the successful competitor has omitted one or . two rather obvious errors, although -in general it will be readily seen that -close and discriminating inspection of the pictures has been made. The prize this week goes to:

Mr.

John A.

Jack

Mull Street, Palmerston. Otago... The correct answers are .as follow :- 41. The bow of the man’s hat is on the wrong side and his coat is fastened the wrong way. 2. The train is going ag ainst the siznals. 3. The bowler is wearing pads instead of the batsman. ~ 4. The slogan should he ‘ ‘Prevents that sinking feeling." _ 5. The tree would "not be in. lent and flowers growing if ice was on the ground. . The man’s thumbs are on the side of his hand. ." 7. There are 2 VII's, the V is up wrong way and the LY is usually uu y. "Ss. There is no chain on the plese le, 9. There are no guy ropes. to: keep the tent in position. No. 3 Competition RREStits of No. 3 competition will be announced next week. No. 4 Competition

TPIS week you are asked to detect obvious errors in each of the accompanying nine sketches. Can. you spot them? ' (1) List the numbers and specify in~ simple language the error or errors that you detect in each drawing. ~ : * (2) A prize of £1/1/- will be awarded: to that competitor. whose list. of errors is most full and accurate, as determined by the Competition Editor of the "Radio Record." | ny (8) Entries, accompanied by free entry coupon No. 4 from this page, close at.11 a.m. on Wednesday. December. 14, at. the office of the "Radio Record, "Dominion" Building, Wellington, .or P.O. Box 1032, Wellington. The entries must be written in ink, on one side of the paper only, and must bear the compctitor’s name and address (with nom de plume, if desired) at the head of the entry. Brain Teasers Can You Do This Onc? . QEVEN men agreed to subscribe toward a certain fund, and the first six gave £10 each. The ofher man gave £3 more than the average of the

seven, What amount. did the seventh man subscribe? : How Much Do You Know? Test yourself and-your friends with these questions :--~ 1. Why are silver and. gold coins given a milled edge? . Why do we shake hands? What is the origin of the bride cake? 4. We speak of a handful of pennies as "coppers." Are they coppers ? 5. Which is the oldest ‘alcoholic drink? G. "To blow one’s own trumpet" is a common remark, Do-you know how it originated? Watch Your Step! Try this when you are doing your morning exercises : — Put your hands on your hips and stretch one leg ‘forward. On the other foot slowly lower yourself by bending the knee until you are almost sitting on the heel with the unemployed leg held straight out to the front, parallel with the floor. Then rise again by straightening.the leg. Can You Find This Well-known Proverb? > The letters with "ones" under them are the first letters of words; those with "twos" under them are secoud letters of words, and so on.

In the Year 1900. A correspondent proposes the following question: Many will think at first sight that there is in-

sufficient data for an answer. but if the. problem is tackled correctly, the solution is simple :- A man’s age at death was one-: twenty-ninth of the year of his birth. Iiow old was he in the year 1900? A Curious Multiplication. What number is it that. when anultiplied by 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 2, 81 or 99 gives a product in which first and last figures are’ the sume as those in the multiplier, but which when multiplied by 90 gives au product in which the last two figures are the same us those’ in the inultiplier? Kasily Dene, But How? Cut a circular hole in a piece of stiff paper ‘the exact size of a shilling. The problem is to pess a penny through this hole véthoui touching the coin or tearing the paper. The Singular: Shilling. A handkerchief being spread out squarely upon the table and a shilling laid on its centre, you are required so to pick up the handkerchief as to bringeit into a vertical pusition, the shilling still remaining in the centre’ supported by the jaandkerchief only. Can you do it: Ten Half-pence Puzzte. J Place ten half-pence in a row of the fable; then taking up one of the series, place it upon seme other with the proviso that you pass over just ohe penny. Repeat this until there ure no single half-pence left. Answers to Last Week’s Preblems

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