General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Lieut.-Com. A. Townsend, "Novi-Sad," Larkstone Gardens, Ilfracombe, N. Devon, for the following :— Questions on General Zoology
1. What is the largest animal known ?
2. What phenomenon of marine life is never:found on the west coast of any continent ? 3. What mammal is toothless throughout life and egg-laying?
4. What animal structure is termed " Aristotle's-lantern " ?
5. What vertebrate animal lacks a specialized head ?
6. What animal has never more than ten functional teeth, eine of which may weigh over seventeen stone ?
7. What is the smallest British sea-bird ?
8. What is a Freemartin ?
O. What insect is capable of jumping well over one hundred times its own height ? 10. What group of vertebrate animals have no biting jaws ?
11. What animals possess a larger brain than man ? 12. What bird has a larger brain, in relation to bulk, than man?
13. What is the structure and function of a camel's hump ? •
• Answers will be:lotiiid on page .89i.
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