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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1950Vol. XXI, No. 2

PIM Crossquiz No. 9

p. 60 · Read in the full issue

(Solution on Page 63.)

Across

4, —Which is the inner and larger of the two forearm bones? 6.—Whereabouts in New Mexico is the US Army trying out the cap tured German V 2 rockets? 7„—What is a disease common to rye? 8. —What have fire, earth and water often been erroneously called? 9. —What is a Mexican dollar called? 11. —What English traveller is noted for his translation of the “Arabian Nights”? 14. —What is five-sevenths of one point four? 15. —Where were the Nazi leaders tried? 17. —Which is the largest of the four quarters of the globe? 18. Which dark brown coal is at present of little value for fuel? 19. —What was the first name of a well-known character of the Catskills, created by Washington Irving? 20. —What is the plural of ovum? 21. —Another name for a rup ture?

Down

I—Which language has no alphabet? 2. —What is the term for one who loads and unloads ships? 3. —Ground corn? 4. —What abbreviation stands for a large re public? 5. What general was victorious at the battle of Austerlitz? 7.—Who. in the Bible, was cheated out of his birthright?

9. —Who was given a box containing all the ills of human life? 10. —What is a republic in Syria?

M.—Which tennis player was for many years the singles champion of France? 12. —Wh?t is a state of strain set up in a part by twisting? 13. Whicht is the most thirty populated of the States in the USA? 16 —Whatsis the Christian name of the actor who played “Denny” in ‘‘The Citadel”?