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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1960Vol. XXX, No. 8

Crossquiz

p. 84 · Read in the full issue

Across

I. —Who invented the sewing machine? 7.—What is the collective term for the sepals of a flower? 9. —What term is used to denote a mature insect? 10. —ln Greek mythology, who was the father of the Centaurs? 11. —What is the capital of Libya? 12.—What was an earlier name for Indo nesia?

(For solution see page 93)

13.—What dish is made by crushing maize and barley with water? 16. —What is a tundra? 17. —What city was destroyed in A.D. 79? 20.—Who was the Eng'ish prophetess of the 16th century?

Down

1. —What time of the year is it when the sun is equidistant from the poles? 2. Who was the first English actor to reefiM/p a I'rv<->MI-i rioc J9

3. —What is the chief winter port of Canada? 4. —What African ani mal resembles the giraffe? 5. —What is the science of life in re lation to environment? 6. —What picture, starring Henry Fonda, was a dramatic story of lynching?

B.—How would you describe anything built up fr o m successive layers? 14.—What is the term tor money advanced? ' 5 -—-Who was King of Danes and Nor wegians and ruler of England? 16—What tree ob tained its name from the fact that it resembles an outstretched hand? 18. What is the French word for morn -19. Whose biography was called "Child 0 f Wonder ?