Roodepoort Museum Crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. the system whereby you exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using money?
- 3. a person who makes and repairs iron things by hand?
- 7. a place where old things are kept, displayed and researched?
- 12. colourless, odourless, tasteless gas is essential to all living organisms?
- 13. right 21 March
- 15. the name of Mr. Geldenhuys’s farm
- 16. a violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm?
- 19. surname of the man Mr. Louw Geldenhuys invited to come and look for gold on his farm?
- 20. grain you need to make cake flour with
- 22. proper name for “pudding stone” (the rock that contains gold)?
- 24. name of greater area known as before the cities of Roodepoort and Johannesburg was established
Down
- 1. an old-fashioned record player/turntable?
- 4. the machine you use to make butter with
- 5. the big city that developed after gold was discovered on the farm Langlaagte in 1886?
- 6. old people us it to make soap and candles with
- 8. the invention changed the way people lit their homes during the 1920s?
- 9. colourless, oudorless, toxic and highly flammable gas can gold miners encounter when they work deep underground?
- 10. day 24 September
- 11. mode of transport was used most often in the 1800s to transport goods?
- 14. pyrite proper name for “fools gold”
- 17. dung old people use it to make smooth and dust free mud floors?
- 18. device that blows strong blasts of air to help a fire burn?
- 21. metal that was discovered in Roodepoort in 1884
- 23. chemical symbol for gold