Sport Knowledge Quiz With A Sporting Flavor
A playful quiz asks ten sports questions covering Melbourne Cup timing venues racing events Victor Trumper Empire Games Olympic host cities football premiers and naming terms like line out and hooker with a note that answers appear in Column 7.
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Guy Fawkes
Moonee Valley
Caulletd
Flemington
Victor Trumper
New Zealand
Wellington
Dunedin
Auckland
Helsinki
Ceeerhagen
Melbourne
Sheep Rustlers in Vic Near Campbelltown
A report notes sheep rustling activity around Campbelltown in Victoria with a big catch near the furth and a rating boat dropping nets near the submarine Alcide.
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Vic
Campbelltown
Scotland
Rating Boat
Furth
Ciide
East Gippsland Farmers Lose Prime Stock Worth £30,000
CANGS of thieves in East Gippsland stole £30,000 worth of prime sheep last week. They entered paddocks at night with fast trucks, loading sheep into the vehicles and fleeing. Police warn sheep theft is rising and vow tighter permits and mobile checks to curb the racket. Mrs. C J Dennis of Sale reports 250 sheep missing. origin traced to Bruthen hills and Melbourne market.
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East Gippsland
Gippsland
C. J. Dennis
Sale
Bruthen
Melbourne
Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage
A stuffed bird in a gilded cage deceived customs officers at Southampton with its song. Owner Frank McHugh aboard the Queen Mary to New York proved the bird’s toy nature by winding it and making it sing. He said he bought it at a flea circus in Paris and was taking it home to his mother.
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Southampton
Frank McHugh
New York
McHu
MecHoch
Paris
Played game with death on Chicago rail tracks
Two boys aged 15 and 16 lay between train ties as a 20 car express thundered overhead at 70 mph. An undercarriage narrowly missed them, police dragged them free, and the youths explained the thrill of the dangerous “game” done for kicks between 5 and 6 pm. Chicago’s chief juvenile officer gave them a stern dressing-down.
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Chicago
Ral Salaman
Thomas Collins
Paramount Aerial Shuttle Ties Hollywood to Units Abroad
Daily air shuttle links Paramount headquarters with three on location units while Rushes from Italy arrive for September shoots featuring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten. Chicago reports bring US Mail and Alan Ladd Phyllis Calvert casting notes as The Eagle and the Hawk films near Sedona with John Payne. Italy supplied a Pompeii backdrop sequence. Bing Crosby finishes Ris ing High then off to Mr. Music after ranch time in Nevada. Delmar Daves wife Mary Lawrence rises to a bigger role with Babs Stanwyck and John Lund in The Lie, as Crosby heads back to Hollywood for production.
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Paramount
Hollywood
Italy
Joan Fontaine
Joseph Cotten
Chicago
News of
US Mail
Alan Ladd
Phyllis Calvert
Sedona
Arizona
John Payne
Pompeii
Bing Crosby
Elko
Nevada
Bing
Hayden Lake
Spokane
Delmar Daves
Wrother
Sam Wood
Cate
Stratton
Mary Lawrence
Babs Stanwyck
John Lund
Crosby
East West love story ends in Berlin Leipzig hippo swap
Berlin Zoo hippo Knautschke waited for a mate as Leipzig Zoo sent its female Grete to Berlin. After 383 hours in adjoining cages the pair finally met and began their cross border romance amid thawing East West tensions.
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Knautschke
Berlin Zoo
Leipzig
Grete
Germany
Berlin
Ode
Quiz Answers Summary From Anonymized Sheet
The document lists quiz responses with multiple choice items and names. Notable entries include a date reference “First Tues in Nov” and geographic mentions Flemington and Auckland along with people such as Helsinki, T Essenden, Rueby, and Gill O'Reilly.
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Flemington
Auckland
Helsinki
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