Pacific Islands Monthly
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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 3

Pim Crossquiz No. 79

p. 84 · Read in the full issue

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Solution Page 8t!

Across

I.—Who was lost as sea whilst searching for Nobile? 6.—Who was chess champion of the world 1935-37 8. —Which Greek poet is believed by some to be the inventor of tragedy?

9. —Who was eleven times premier of France? 10. —What is the largest British possession in West Africa 11. —What is a small three cornered cape? 13. —What is the term for legal infancy? 16. —What were the lists for in mediaeval England? 17. —ln which George Bernard Shaw play is the main character the wife of a

parson?

19. —What is the US term for what the English call biscuits 20. —The British Isles is con sidered to be part of which continent?

Down

1. —What is the capital of Texas? 2. —What type of "railroad" was used to help negro slaves to escape to Canada? 3. —What is the term for making metal prior to drilling or cutting? 4. Which prefix means new?

5. —What is the official language spoken in Kenya and Tanganyika?

7. —Which American poet is also notea his biography of Lincoln? 11. —What small commercial vessel! peculiar to the Mediterranean? 12. —What is a piece of incombustible; raked out of a furnace? 14. What is the seventh letter of the 0 alphabet? 15. —What type of angle is less tha

right angle? 18. —What is the plural of die?

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