The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 8

Crossquiz No. 241

pp. 70-74 · Read in the full issue

Across

I. —Who was the last Aztec ruler of Mexico? 7. —Who invented loga rithms? 8. —W hi c h Englishman won the Nobel prize for peace in 1933? 10.—W h i c h country’s capital is Riga? 11. —Which Japanese statesman was four times premier? 12. —Which animal is con sidered as the King of the beasts? 13. —What is the term for a representative of the Government? 16. —W hi c h atmospheric gas is used extensively for lighting? 17. —Who invented the phonograph? 19. —Who was the medieval philosopher whose romance with Eloise is well known? 21. Who is the Poet Laureate? 22. —Over which race ruled the famous King Attila?

Down

I.—What was the name of the two brothers who first inflated balloons by heated air and who made many ascents? wawTiilH S v, th f Ct^ tor of Europe and Was d Th „ Litt!e Corporal”?

Wa u, t o e first P res ident of the 4 -On nU , pi situat'd? Wlllc * l river 18 Florence and Pisa 5 —Bv what namp ic atove shields and LLk the device arms? 0n a of Liberty’’? 0 thC &Uth ° r of “ Es « a y on

9.—Who was the famous Italian painter Who died of the plague at the age of n \ n 1 et ™ e?

H.—Who was the author of "Peer Gynt”? f 14 -—What is the name of compounds formed by the condensation of alcohol and an acid with elimination of water? 15.—What is the name of the commonest metal? * 18- Who was the inventor of the half tone P hot °-engraving process? 19.—What term is associated with tennis, MS?£“£e ? name of a river in Europe, Russia, Scotland and England?