Our Puzzle Corner

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 37, 24 March 1933, Unnumbered Page

Our Puzzle Corner

Memory Refreshers 1, What is a gnu? 2. What is grindery? 3. How did the word "guinea" come to be a term of money? 4. When is the word "hegira’ used? 5. Whar are the names given to the colours used in -heraldry? 6, What is a hermit crab?

7. What is Hollands? . 8. What is indian ink? 9. What is a Jeremiad? 10. What is a juggernaut? 11. What is a katydid? 12. What is Koumiss? 13. What plant’ provides linseed? 14. What is Maundy money?’ 15. How did the name milliner come about? 16, What is the phoenix? 17. Why is a poster so called? 18. Why is a certain kind of teacake called a Sally Lunn? 19. What is the animal called a unicorn? 20. What is-a white elephant? , Answers 1. A gnu is an African animal of the antelope type. In appearance it suggests the body of a horse and the head of a buffalo. . 2. The goods stocked by merchants who supply bootmakers and repairers with their requisites, . 3. The gold which went to make the coin came from: the Guinea: Coast. 4, Just as we have numbered our years from the theoretical birth of Christ, so the Mohammedans. count their years from the time when Mahomet left Mecca for Medina. The word hegira means departure, and when we use the term anno Domini, the

Mohammedan calendar uses the term hegira. 5. Gold is! "or." silver is "areent," red is "gules." blue is "azure." green is "vert," purple is "purpure,’? and black is "sable." , 6. A species of erab which possesses no shelly covering, As a consequence, {t finds an empty spiral shell or dispossesses some creature of its shell, enters it backwards, and lives there. 7. A kind of gin made in Holland of rye, malt, and the berries of the juniper tree, 8. An ink made with lampblack and some gummy fluid. It has no connection with India. 9 A tale of grief and woe, of complaint and lamentation, often with a spice of ridicule. So named from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah," in the Old Testament. Sometimes applied to a person: who always has a long face. 10. Formerly an idol to which the people of India sacrificed themselves. Now, ‘anything to which people ruthlessly and madly apply themselves, or anything which causes sacrifices out of all proportion: to: their value." 11. The Katydid is a huge flying insect, with green wings, inhabiting Central United States. It lives: in trees and utters a shrill sound resembling its name. 12. Koumiss is a spirit made from mare’s milk fermented and distilled. 13. The flax. plant provides linseed. 14. Small sums which are distributed to the poor on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, by the King, through his agent, the Lord High Almoner. James II was the last Sovereign to make the gifts in person. Special silver coins of the value of 1d., 2d., 3d, and 4d. are struck for the purpose. They are legal tender, but few people spend them, since the coins can be sold for much more than their face value to collectors. ; 15, A milliner is a person who sells Indies’ hats. At one time the best hats came from Milan, and people who dealt in goods coming from Milan called themselves ‘Milaners." 16, A mythical bird which lived for more than half a century; it then built itself a funeral pile, set it alight by flapping its wings, sat on it, and was consumed, then rose from its ashes endowed with fresh youth and beauty. Hence, the term has come to mean anything immortal. 17. In Georgian times it was a custom to stick bills around the posts which marked the edges of the streets. Such bills became known as posters. 18. "Because a woman of this name originated the kind and sold it in her shop at Bath. 19, The unicorn is a mythical creature which resembled a horse but was possessed of a single horn and had the legs of a buck as well as the' tail of a lion. It was white with red on the head. Mention of it has been found dating as far back’ as four centuries before Christ. 20. Originally the so-called White Elephants were sacred to the service of the priests. Any person found in possession of one was liable to trouble,. torture, or even death, As a result, a white elephant has become a term for anything that causes more trouble than it is worth.

Victor S. Lloyd, Who will relate One of his Experiences From 2YA on SATURDAY, MARCH 25. x bi