Sunday Times Quiz

[owlhouse]

Sunday Times Quiz No 28
Anybody got the answer to this question?
What did Ambrose Bierce describe as 'A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island'?

[wakster]

Australia

[j buxton]

My wife did most of the quiz and she originally put Australia but then changed it to South America - don't know why. Do you happen to know 24 a) 25b) and e) ?

[netfamily]

25b is certainly Christopher Columbus - a picture is on the Corbis website...can someone please confirm 14d, 17c and 32b for us?

[karine]

32c : they are all names of winds

[bandrhia]

It's Australia