Our Competition Corner

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 33, 24 February 1933, Unnumbered Page

Our Competition Corner

Results of No. [1 Competition

THOUGH the entries for No. 11 Competition were lighter than usual, it has proved one of the most interesting yet held. Miss -M. ‘Lilley, of. Charles Street, Kaiapoi, who won last week’s prize, again wins this week's with the cleverest solution yet sent in to any problem. By making use of two diago:.al roads, which the conditions did. not forbid, she arranged a route by which the traveller could visit every town in the seventy-six miles. That the length of each diagonal is six miles is obvious from the theorem of Pythagoras, which states that the length of the diagonal of a right-angled triangle is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides. ~ Miss Lilley’s ‘qualifying phrase: "a straight line is the shortest distance between two pints!" was not needed to win her the prize, though one of .the best received. (Her solution is re-. produced on this page.) Two other competitors selected forspecial mention are Mrs. G. Ross, Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah, and Mr. A. R. Wilson, 1 River Road, Hamilton, both of whom sent in routes which left only two towns unvisited. Competition No. 12. HE winner of last week’s crossword puzzle will be announced next week, Ask Your Friends These (Answers are given in next col.) 1. Which is the largest building in the world? 2. Which are the biggest ships that have ever been built? 83. Which is the longest bridge in the world? 4. Which is the highest mountain in the world? 5. Which is the largest royal palace?

%& Which pbuilding possesses the largest dome? 7. Who is the world’s richest mam? 8. Who made the first photograph? 9. Who invented the telephone? 10. Who invented the first aeroplane? A Word Square. Can you complete this word square by substituting letters for the lines?

Answers to This Week’s Puzzles 1. The Great Pyramid at Giezeh, in Egypt. 2. The Majestic, Bremen, Leviathan, Berengaria, Europa, Aquitania and Olympic. 38. The Tay Bridge, in Scotland. It is 10,780 feet long. 4, Mt. Everest, in the Himalayas. It is 29,000 feet high. 5. The Palace of Madrid. 6. St. Peter’s, at Rome, The second largest is that of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. "%. Henry Ford. "8, Niepce and Daguerre, two Frenchmen, in 1839, 9. While many people contributed to the development of the first telephone, it is claimed that Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, was the first to make it a practical possibility. This he did in 1876. 10. Although people have tried to fly almost since the dawn of history, the first to accomplish this feat practically were Orville and Wilbur Wright. They made a machine which flew at Dayton, Ohio, in 1908. In the "Daily Mail" of December 19, 1903, appeared the following: "Messrs. Wilbur and Orville ‘Wright, Ohio, yesterday successfully experimented with a flying machine, at Kittyhawk, North Carolina. In the force of a wind blowing 21 miles an hour, the machine flew three miles at the rate of miles an hour. The idea of the box-kite was used in the construction," Word Square. The words are: Waste, Actor, Stone, Tonie, Erect.