PIM Crossquiz - No. 2

(Solution on Page 72)

Across

4—What is the name of a government and also certain food? 6 What is the term for mercy killing of humans? 7 Disraeli became known as Lord ? 8— What is another name for typhoid fever? 10 — On which island do immigrants to the USA land? 11 — What is the art of painting murals on wet and freshly laid plaster? 12— Who was Tonio in Pagliacci? 15 —What character was portrayed by Margaret O’Brien in “The Lost Angel”? 18— What is the plural term of the size of usual letterhead paper? 19— What name has been given to Tiziano Vecelli. a famous Italian painter? 20 — In poultry farming, what is the term for a hen rejected as being a non-layer?

Down

1— What is the business of a farmer? 2 Which region in SE Europe has been divided between Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria? 3 Which acid, found in oak trees, is used in medicine on account of its astringent pro perties? 4 Who interpreted the “Writing on the Wall” in the Bible?

s—Which5 —Which adjective means boiling up or agitated? 9—What are being investigated at White Sands.

Usa?

10—In grammar, what is a figure of syntax by which a word or words are left out and im plied? 13— What is French for step? 14 — What is a small two-masted fore-and-aft rigged sailboat? 16 — When combined with a metallic oxide, what will form a salt? 17— What does a person do to nictate?

old “King” of Cocos Island, and 17 companions.

They had been picked up by P & O Co’s Strathaird which had gone to the island to drop mail. The two boats in which Clunies Ross and party had gone out to the liner suffered a series of mis haps and there was nothing for it but to pick the men up and take them to Fre mantle.

Six of the party were Europeans—be sides Clunies Ross, an Administration officer, Mr. A. Robson; Mr. C. Millar of Cable and Wireless Ltd.; Mr. p. Barker of the Admiralty; and Messrs. D. Jones and E. L, Lertinere.

The 12 others were Malays.

All have now returned to Cocos.