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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, '1952.
- CHRISTMAS QUIZ-
How's Your Table Talk?
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
1. What countries 170 the following colny:-- Drachma, rouble, lira, rial? (4 marks),
2. For what do the following initials s:ond:- N. A. T. 0. U.S.S.R., M.S.A., U.N.RS.C.0.7 (4 marks).
3. With which countries would you asscelate principally the following:-Roberi A. Taft, Dudley Senanayake, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman? (4 marks),
Can you held your own: In conversation? To talk fearlessly in the most dlatinguished company, one needs a wide knowledge' of many subjects, If you answer the following questions, you should know- roughly what you are like, as a conversationalist. Each question in each of the six sections needs four answers-take one mark for each answer correctly given. : Total for each section is - 20.. Grand total, 120. At the end of the answers you' will find a means of estimating your converantfonál powers from the number of marks you get. The answers appear on Page 22 of this paper.
4. Which four of the coun- trics are members of the United - 5. Neme four Prime. Minis Gold Medals
at the resent Nations: Italy, Burma, Fin- tcrs from the politicians:-Lord Olympic land, Iceland, Iran, Irish Re- North, Lord
Games: Belzura, Randolph Chur- Russia, Sweden. Now Zealand, public, Spain, South Africa? (4 chill, Lord Palmerston, the Great Britain, Hungary, marks),
Duke of Wellington, Oliver Czechoslovakia, Germany. Cromwell, Sir Austen Checmber- Inin, Sir Robert Peel, Charles James Fox. (4 marks).
TOTAL: 20.
Humonia,
.5. Which four of the coun- tries support a monarchy Sweden,
Portugal, Denmark, Albania, Libya, Nor- way? (4 marks).
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TOTAL: 20.
SCIENCE
SPORT
TOTAL: 20.
Gershwin; Matlase, Walter de la
· Biaro, – Hugh Walpole, Dame Equra Knight, Edward German, Van Gogh? (4 marks).
8. By whom wore these masterpieces erosted:-
The
Mona Lisa, M. Paul's Cathedral. the Magic Flute, the Odyssey? (4 marios)
TOTAL: 20.
BY-WAYS
1. In conversation how could you address;—A Duke, an_Am- bazinder, a Bishop, the Presİ- dent of the United States? .(4 marks).
2. If yta ordered this dinner from the menu, what woul you expect to be elven: Potage Qux chrmeignen5, Homarde Thermidor. Canard roll, Baked Ala:ka? (4 marks).
THE ARTS1271: Who wrote:-The School following
3. What is the meaning of the financial terms: →→
a bull (4
4. For what occupations are these people well-known:- Jacques Fath, Betty Hulton, Erle Shipton, John Cab? (4 marks).
for Scandal. Agamemnon, Jane Account Payce Only, Mortgate, Ey:c. Huckleberry Flan? (4 Bonus Shares, 1. With what sports do you marios). 5.
marks). principally associate the follow- ing:~~~(0) Davis Cup, Ryder 2. Who created the following With what inventions of Cup, Melbourne Cup, Lonsdale characters: Mrs. Bardell, discoveries are the following Bolt? (4 marks) (b) Pilcher, D'Artagnan, Professor Moriarty, principally associated: J. L. Puck, Follow-on, Chukker? (4 Ophelia?. (4. marks). Baird, Alexander
(c) Twickenham, S Fleming, marks) Alexander Bell, William Cax Andrews, Trent Bridge, Healey?
Who composed the sym- ton? (4 marks).
(4 marks) (d) Steve Donoghue, phonies known as: New World, 5. What is the meaning of the Ponvo Nurmi, Gens Tunney, Uninished, Eroica, Clock? (4 Suzanne Lenglen? (4 marks). marks).
illegible, ineligible, cente? (4 marks).
TOTAL: 20.
2. By what name arc the folowing alloys better known:- Copper and zin, in and load, copper and
tla, Iridium and usmium? (4 marks),
3. What are:-A viscometer, a barometer, an anamometer, a calorimeter (4 marks).`
4. Which four of the follow- ing are planets:--Taurus. Venus, Pegasus, Uranus, Scorpio, Orion, Pluto, Neptune? (4 marks).
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2. Which four of the follow-
4. Which four of these 470 ing countries won more than 4 alive today:-Sibelius, George
following
words: Intelligible,
Thousands Of Pipers An' A'
TODAY the bagpipes are
By J. W. TAYLOR
There are many countries the devil and clergy went round
burning
POCKET CARTOON)
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"May I remind you, Miis Runcorn, that this year we are going to take * Adeste Fideles' "quite? straight 1!"
MONACO
WANTS
PRINCE TO MARRY
T
From JOAN. HARRISON
Paris. HE tiny Principality of Monaco land of Monte Carlo; the world's most famous gambling: centre- wants ita prince, ruler of 8,500 citizens, 'to wed.
And for all its pocket size, the parliament (or national town council of Monaco) takes this very seriously indeed.
At a recent meeting the council, passed a recommen- 5. If you were given this enjoying 証 wave of which claim that the bag from cottage to cottage in some dish for dinner, what would you popularity the world over pipes are their own. In parts breaking and
dation that their ruler, be eating: Sodium chloride, that is greater than ever. Ireland there is the belief pipes wherever they found them. 29-year-old Prince Rainier pisum rativum, pleuronectes The Scottish College of that they originated there
III, should seriously con- platesso, solanum luberosum?
But all the world over the aider marriage in order to (4 marks).
Piping is branching out on and were carried across the bagpipes stir the blood of all its latest venture of having sea centuries ago to Scat- Scotsmen. They have helped assure the succession. TOTAL: 20.
classes in Rothesay In land. Others have it that some of the most gallant episodes friendly indeed for the past five Scottish regiments to record As the Princo has been very Edinburgh it is to train the Romans introduced in military boys between 12 and 14 them to Britain; some that there are Instances on record years with a beautiful, French who have no previous the ancient Egyptians were where the playing of re the sites of these buttres knowledge, whilst at the the first who ever squeezed bagpipes has stilled the anger of one day become Princess Gisele.
these battles College: Headquarters in n goat or
Scotsmen. Gettysburg, Plastry,
goose skin to World Wars the German Army Rorke's Drift, Waterloo? (4 marks).
Glasgow
Then the privy council of the are 130 make music through a reed. was firmly convinced that the Prince took a hand. They are 2. Who was known as pupils in various stages of Abroad they say that the bagpipe was as indispensable alleged to have met together Rowley, the Old Pretender, the training.
town of Ravenna in Italy. giment as any weapon of war- Rainier that, whilst they wanted Iron Duke, the Iron Chancellor?
where Stradivarius made fare.
(4 marks).
3. What
HISTORY
nationality
were
the following: Garibaldi, Kru- gor, Hannibal, Peter the Great?
of
the
(4 marks),
4. What sovereign British Throne. (a) longcet? (b) ruled shortest?
|
there
his famous violin, firat pro- duced the bagpipe.
1745
history. Again,
the
Lwo
and as valuable to a Scottish re-
film actress Gisele Pascal,
Privately and advised Prince
him to marry, they would not favour a marriage with French" Alm star.
Séumas Macneil. the joint Principal of the College, has There was a time when anyone Before been to Dublin to give the possessing bagpipes in Britain playing in England was restricted the last war pipe.
death." In Irish College the benefit of risked
the mainly to Lancashire, Northum his experience in Scotland. pipes as an instrument of War in Lincoln Cathedral there is a ramited concate
British Government branded the berland,
Asked: to confirm, Els, M. London Caledonian
Charles Bellando de · Castro, and in Lincolnshire. president of the privy council, made the offence (e) lacket his wife out of school of piping organised possession of them punishable by picture of a Westminster Abbey at his
with a cat situation is a very delicate one.” The pipes were not under his armo, and he is biting But he would make no further load, his troops in battle? (4 Dickie and now in its second where at one time, fife Church represent both the look and the Coronation? (d) was the last toy ex-Gordon Pipe-Major A.
always in favour In Sention. its tall. This is supposed cemment, _marks),
regarded them as instruments of "sound of the pipes,
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CL drive front Mónaco. cara of the listeners are likely to be damaged than the Should Prince Rainier not ears. of the player. Some wed, succession would pass to players are known to suffer from the eldest so of his sister, car trouble and affections of the Princess Antionette, who s chest.
married to a commoner.
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Gradually, however, the
She was married quietly last quaint, plaintive plea of the bag-year in a rexistry office In plps has impressed more and Gencs, to international cha more people, and all over Eng-
land there are teaching agencies; player Atce Noghes, who had with
a great proportion of the obtained a divorce from his first
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Hite while before He being made in
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Today
the sound of the should Prince Rainier mure a bagpipe may be heard in almost nim star his grandfather all parts of the world, including Prince Louls II also married an the lush playing of the glamorous actress. She was his second wife girl pipers from Iowa, University and is now the widowed Prin- in America.
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