HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1988
Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?
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By The Dragoman
·EEDING no introduction your weekly quiz. All you need is a sharp pencil, a 'sharp brain-and well, honesty is no handicap.
Take two points for each correct answer. Fiity is a Possible and 30 just a Pass. Now how good are you?
1 man of queer instes 13 Murgatroyd you rarely see him in the street with.. out his mandrill. You can't mistake Mur- gatroyd, because he wears a'hat, and anyway you know a mandrill is
extra
A two-wheeled vehicle; an long walking stick; a baboon; a larga scapird; a mining implement. 2.If you were in England and you went nlong to a formal function and you weren't thrown out, you would take precedence over all other titles present (except Royalty) if you could persuade them you were a
Marquis; carl; lord; duke; knight; squire; baron; desperate gunman, 3.You'll know, of course, but it is sur prising the number of people in Hongkong who don't know the capital of Soviet Russia 15:
Leningrad; Stalingrad; Moscow; Kharkov; Warsaw; Odessa.
4: Don't dodge this one by saying you haven't got any teeth, anyway. You had 'em once, and the eight central front teeth in your mouth are (or were) known as:---
Discuspids; wisdom; molars; con- ines; incisors; nippers. 5-You can't grumble at this question, be- was published in the cause the answer "Telegraph" only the other day. Hongkong's Imports for the year 1037 totalled:-
$13,000,000: $103,000,000; $1,003,- 000,000; $10,300,000,000.
6. Simplicity is the keynote as the fosh- lon writers say-of this question. All you have to do is to say which one of these
sced or berry:- edibles in not derived from
coffee; vantila; nutmeg; mustard;
cinnamon; cocoa.
7-Tristan Da Cunha is a lonely island be- longing to Britain and very popular with tourists as a place to stay away from. It is nearer to one of these Copes.
Otway; Horn; of Good Hope; Finis- terre, York. 8.One of these ine days, someone in the Foreign Office will have to chew the cud about the New Territories, for they're due
to be returned to China in:-
1947; 1950; 1807; 1973; 1989; 1997. 9.Remember the old beheading days and ale was tuppence a pint and no head on It? You'll recall, then, that beheading was the
fale of:-
James ; Charles II; James 11; Charles 1; Henry VIII. 10.-Yes, yes, I know that weather is a painful subject, but you'll be pleased to know that the wettest month (speaking of rain, of course) in Hongkong is usually:--
February; April; June; Augusti October; December.
11-This is American-and say, why not?
Aves
one of these famous Americans still
Grover Cleveland; Calvin Coolidge; Henry Ford; Thomas A. Edison; Theodore Roosevelt.
12. And this is British (and proud of Itt) ...the Union Jack was Orst holsted in Aus
trail at:
Port Jackson; Botany Boy; Port Phillip; Moreton Bay: Swan River Settlement.
13--Got a map of the world fixed firmly in your mind? tight, then-without getting water on the brain-Just say which is more than twice as big as the next biggest of these
oceans:
Atlantic; Indian; Pacific; Aretic. 14-Of course you read about Bildad-who was a fairly famous man in his day-when you read:
Robinson Crusoe; the Ancient Mariner; flatory of Spain; the Bible, 15You don't have to be a student of international affairs to know the name of the man who is resident of the Lengue of Nations Assembly is:
Mr. Baldwin Mr. Bruce; the Aga Khan; Lord Abercorn; Mr. Eden. 10-A simple little system is the metric. system. Even if you are blindfolded and have one arm tied behind your back you will be able to say the number of decimetres in a dekametre is!--
10: 100; 1000;
bother about.
10,000; too many to .
17. Only one-one only, mark you-of these gentlemen is included in the full list of British Field-Marshals;
Lord Runciman; Duke of Glouces ters the Emperor of Japan; Lord Gowrie; Eddle Kelly.
18-If I wanted to select from this list the man with the highest Income I would sny (1
wanted to get two points):
I
Dictator Stalin; the Archbishop of York; the Governor-General of New Zealand; the Bishop of London; the Governor of Nigeria,
If
19 This is just too insultingly easy. you can't figure it out clear your throat, blush and pass quietly on to the next (deducting two polits en route). The number
es, black and white, on squares,
П chess draughts board is:
of or
60; 0; 0; 48: an even hundred. 20-As you would expect the mercurial Kelly to remark, hero's a tidy little question. In other words a question on tide. There are Spring tides, Yule Tides, Neap tides and the pawnbroker who tides you over. Any
a Spring tide is one thing and a Neap way, a tide is:-
medium; low; high; nothing to worry about.
21 There'll be an annular eclipse of the sun next month, say astronomers, and if they say so... well, there'll be an annular eclipse ali right. Annulor meaning:-
"twelve monthly; total; ring shaped; crescent
metaphorically speaking.
shaped;
22. Who, when, where or/and what la/was Goa? Yes, the answer is:
A famous constructor; a big con- stricter; a German possession Japan; a Portuguese possession in India; a trier at the rices.
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23,-"The first game of golf ever played was played by me," quoth Murgatroyd, sink- ing his tenth pot
putt.. at the 10th. I doubt it, I doubt it... but if he did play It he played it In:-----
Scotland; Alaska; Holland; France; America; New Zealand.
24. Always think twice about it when you feel like consigning someone to the Limbo, because, as you know, the limbo is the place:
known as the inner ring of Hades; for souls barred from heaven through to fault to their own; of eternal tor- fure; where great ones sleep; be- tween heaven and earth.
26. And to finish up with an easy one- pick the word spelt Incorrectly:-
clarify: billfy; rarifu; modify; simply.
(Answers on Page Three!
Test Your Will Power
With These Questions
(Answors on Pago 3)
Inughter of those around you, or (B) đò you
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HAVE you strong will power or have give up easily? (
you not? Do you deceive yourself 4 Are you (A) tactful and considerate of and others into the appearance of thoughtlessly offend people unwittingly and the feelings of others, or (B) do you strength of character by being merely ignore the viewpoint of others? (.) stubborn and defiant because you really have a weak character?
Apply this teat to yourself and think wall before you anawer each question, be cause we all have a wonderful ability to deceive ourselves and we all tend to credit ourselves with the aptitude we lack but would like to possess.
When you have answered the ques tions get a friend to make the same estimate of you and see how well the two estimates agree.
B-
Answer these questions with A. or
concentrate all your (A) 1 Can you
energies on a problem for some time in spite of obstructions and distractions; or (B) do you enthusiastically take up a hobby or interest and then suddenly drop 17
Con you (A) be honest with yourself
when you are not doing what you hoped
to do, or (B) do you make excuses to jus- tify your failure to set up to expectation- "I didn't get a chance," "So and so inter- fered," etc. (
Can you (A) persist in an alm for a long time in spite of dimeultles and the
Are you (A) kindly in your relationship
with your family, the people you meet at work and in the tram or (3) are you im- pulsively generous at times and quite thought- less of the feelings of people at others?
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Are you (A) energetic and naturally keen to work or (B) do you have a spurt of energy and then a span of laziness, perhaps making liness the excuse? () Are you (A) persevering? Do stick to a policy once you have made up your mind to follow it, or (B) cannot you be depended on even when you appear to have made up your mind? >
you
Can you (A) make decisions, or (B) do you put off making decisions and when you have made them wonder if you have chosen the better course? C }
Can you (A) Inugh off a mistake of your own, or (B) do you always try to find some excuse, to put the blame on someone cls07
10 Can you (A) rely on yourself par- ticularly in an emergency, or (B) do you shirk responsibility and prefer to lean on someone else? (
Now turn Page 40 and compare your score with John Mulholland's answers.
Girls and Boys' Corner
Dear Kiddies,
Quite an easy competition last week, wasn't it? The majority of you did very well and it was quite difficult to pick out the winners.
However, after careful consi- deration, I have decided to award the prizes to:
Senior: Gaspar Baptista (aged 10), 6, Hart Avenue,
Kowloon.
He's a happy
healthy Ovaltine Boy!
All mothers know that the very foundation of health is correct nourishment and that there is nothing like 'Ovaltine' for meeting the nutritive elements of rapid growth and development. Its supreme morit is such that it is the food beverage most widely re- commanded by doctors. Every 'Ovaltina' child drinks his cup of "Ovaltine" every day,' and that is why he is such a bright, happy little person.
Delicious 'Ovaltino" is the porfect food beverage for children. It is rich in just the right kind of nourishment needed to build them up — body, brain and nerves — and keep them full of anorgy and vigour." Mako ‘Ovalting" the daily beverage in your home.
Junior: Peter Pax- ton (aged 75), 24, Camarvon Road, Kowloon.
Will Gaspar and Peter call at tha "Hongkong
graph" offices their prizes?
"Talo-
for
Merit Certificates ara being sent to:
Seniors: _Frank Horlocki Joyco Leong, Diana_Hog- king, Jean Grady and Mansoor All,
Juniors: Ronald Lang, Peter Coom, Ronald Avio. Rihonad ELLE (1 this the correct way to apell Your лате? . Irmgart Ghazi
Boitsu
J. Khan.
and
Specially
mended
for
Com-
Food
work are C. E.
Clark, Fern Ellis,
Amalia
D'Oliveira Sales, Abdul nahim. Ju Po-chlu, Vera Baskerville,
POREY
Barton, P. MacCaw, Aida Mendes, Wal- ter Choy, Cecilia itemedios,
Luik Martin Souzao. Becker, Priscilla Pires, Vivian Pomeroy. Margte
Laurence
Name
Address
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This is all my own work
Marques Maggie Cheng, Amy Choy, Ho Shuk-chun, Alberto da Rota, Pamola Li, Pamela Ho, Yeurg Kit-wa, Ho Man-chan, Kayaan Hau-ming. Kerima J. Chan, S. A. Dux, Edith Tan, Ada Foster, Maggia Alves, Vivien Gillespie, Antonio Souza, Suen Mo-tak. Thelma Pinna (Senica): Ricardo da Luz Teresa Bouza, Violetta Heinedios. Eleanor Banger, Paddy Grimmitt, Patricia Coombs, Jacquelina Xavier, Tootale
Garcia, Alister Andrews, Dorothy Revis, Gertie Remedios, Hinkle Mackie, lu Po yal. S. A. Bux, 9. 8. Bux and Jock Mackla (Juniors).
Manuela da Luz: I ́have just noticed that your age in 15. Unfortunately, en- trania for this competition must be under 15.
P. MacCaw (aged 10), 4. Torren Build- ings, Kimberley Road, would like to have pen-friends between the ages of 10 and 16 упала.
Tenis Copper. Ada Foster, Teardo Ribaro: Your stories and jokes are being published this week. Merit Certificates are being mont
Francis Iubeiro, Vivien Gillespie, Dantel Choy, Hilmy Albers, Teresa Souza. Kugona Choy, Maggio Alves, B. J. Bux, Elizabeth Hargreaves: Unfortunately, lack of space forbids the publishing this week of your atories, jokes, pocina and limericka.
Antonio Beusa: What a delightful drawing you sent me. Antonio. Thank you very much. 1 "am sending you à Merit Certificate.
This week's competition is quite dir- ferent from the usual puzzles. You wil know the twelve months of the years. The artist has suggested them here" pic- torially-but in what order?
Work out your list on pisin paper first. The Guy Fawkes tells you thai No, 11 in November, Then look for the other months in their correct order. Fill in the name, address and age coupon and send to Uncle Edillo, •c/o - "Itonghong Tele- graph." Wyndham Airest, before € pan. on Wednesday, There will again be two prizes,
Look out for next Saturday's competi tion. You will rond all about a new plan I am starting in order that you can, re- celve more prizes,
Uncha Eddie
The Masto Feather.
by Yault Cooper One day, a Byunky the gnome wAS watering his garden, he saw a beautiful [bright- blue festher) ko sailing over his prize bed of begontanj' when it landed on a flower Pounky want to remove it. for he did not want his Warden to loo untidy," and just an hun gut la lt, up il rose. In the air sgáin. It was much a
Aze
lovely blue that Spunky followed it. thinking it would look pretty on his Sunday hat.
It went on and on and Spunky was so eager to get it that he had not noticed ho had gone so far, Buddenly it rose up and amxed itself to a notice board which the gnome had not seen before. Fainted i largo black letters the notice, board
read:
THIS WAY TO THE COMPETITION. Spunky climbed up the sign board and, at last, grasped hold of the feather. Ho cot down and sow that the feather had one Uttle strand of black in it. Then it sald (much to Bpunky's surprise);
"If you want to obtain • pot of
gold,
And live in comfort when you grow
old,
Just legio me out from all the
others
It won't be easy for wo'ra All
brothers,"
Then it told him that the feather king was having a birthday, and he had_40* cread that many magical blue feathers exactly alike must be made, and sent out into fairyland to lead fairy folk 10 Take part in the competilon. Spunky asked the feather what he had to do.
"Well," said the feather. "I will take you to the palace and there I will be mixed up with many other blue feathers like me, and you must pick me out.”
"All right," said Spunky,
Bo the feather led him to the palace and everything happened as it had said, When the time came for Spunky to pick at his feather he looked at everyone until he came to ong which was not quite Ika the others, for it had one strani of black in it.
"Oh! I've found mine," Bpunky cried gleefully to the king,
"Yes, you are right." entā the king Vand here to the pot of gold. Take it." Spunky thanked him, and the king gave nim a feather to lend him home,
When he returned home, he put the feather. In : his Bunday hat, and lived happily for the rest of his, daya.
I wish a maste blue feather would come to me, ma it did to splnky, don't you?
Jokn
From Ada Foster, Teacher! (th, new box) "What's your namo, my little fallow**
New Baytruert Arrisku Teacher "Always say dr when you're speaking in your marter.
New Boy: (pologetically): "dir 'Erbori 'Arriz."
Limerick
**From Ricarito Tubeiro): A fellow onça dining at Greyye Found quite a large moues. In: bis-stew -Baid the waiter," "Don't -SHONE -
Sand ways it about,
Or the, rest will be wanting, ona too.",
"Thera ought
to be a society for popularising crime"
Mrs. Donniger's Diamonds
EPISODE 61 FROM INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S
NOTEBOOK
(2) Orwell Premby, allas Dickens, allas Smith. 38. Three times con- victed of jewel thefts, Now on ticket-of-leave from Maidstone.
(3) Henry Arthur Stuttering (the
66%70U know, Dumbell," said Count). 20. Concerned in the theft
"You I've fine Dulchester tard. Released a
sometimes quite a lot of pathy with crooks."
sym- month ago from Pentonville.
"We'll have them up in that order," sald Playfair. "I've no evidence "So I've noticed, sir,"
was against anyone, but I've a kind of Dumbell's somewhat dry com- hunch that the man we want may ment. "I've no doubt the senti- be Hulah.
Jem Hulah's soubriquet of "Flash" ment is reciprocated. Though was not inappropriate. He was why you should be sympathetic small but well-proportioned, with -well, I'm not quite sure that I aleck dark hair and Ronald Colman see it. There, but for the grace moustache. He admitted cheerfully, response to Playfair's opening of God'—is that what you have sort of alibi for the previous night, "I was doing the round of the coffco- Can't remember
In
I
in mind, sir?"
"Not exactly," answered Playfair, atalls, Inspector. "I get your meaning, Dumbell, but the times very closely, though that wasn't quite what I was mean- might be able to get them for you. ing. No, it's this sort of thing that But what's the big idea, anyway?" moves me almost to, compassion." He took up a paper from his desk.
"Between eleven and twelve last night," he read, "Mrs. Donniger's diamonds were stolen from her house
Playfair's eyelids narrowed. "That little affair in Limbo Street."
"Limbe Street? Never heard of it."
""Never heard of li, `ch?
said
in Limbo Street, Mayfair. Mrs. Don- Playfair. "Nor, I suppose, of Mrs. niger had gone to the theatre, leave Donniger and her diamonds?"
Hulah laughed uncaslly. "What's ing the house untenanted, as both
I might the Iden? A frame-up? of duty for her servants were
the night. The diamonds, consisting of monds they're not exactly a secret. of have heard of Mrs. Donniger'a dia- a single pendant, car-rings and But if anything's happened to them bracelet, are particularly large speci
D
me,"
meas, known to dealers everywhere; which I suppose to what you're they could not be disposed of in re Eetting at it's nothing to do with putable quarters without being re- "Playfair pondered for a moment. reward of £3,450 were you wearing gloves last night,
cut. Their value is estimated at
£34,500, and
to be ofered for their текоисти.
"Mrs. Donniger had left the die-
I
"No, I wasn't. So if you've got
monds, wrapped in a lace scarf, in any fingerprints from Limbo Street, one of the drawers of her dressing- table."
Wealth-and. Responsibility
He put the paper down. "Now you BCC what I mean, Dumbell, when I say I have some sympathy
make you present of those."
"Wait below," said Playfair, after another short pause. * may want
you agala.
Mr, Orwell Premby was a strongly contrasting type. A heavy mari, deliberate in speech and movement. With him, Playfair adopted a dif- ferent line.
These diamonds," he began, "ot Mrs. Donniger's"
with crooks. Diamonds worth thir "I beg your pardon, Guv'nor?" ty thousand quid, left lying about in
These diamonds of Mrs. Donni- drawer! There ought to be a 40 ger's, sald Playfair irritably. "Where ciety for popularising crime, with do you suppose they are now?"
Bonehead Donniger as 'Presi-
Mrs.
dent!"
A thought struck Dumbell. "Good heavens, sir!" ho said. "You're not suggesting, are you, that Mrs. Donniger isn't straight?"
Premby looked worried. "I don't know what you're talking about."
Can you "You don't, don't you? account for your movements last
I was in bed at
nightly I can.
"No, no, Dumbell; that's not what Hoxton, and asleep."
I meant at all. My point is merely
"Any evidence of that?"
that where there's wealth there "Plenty," said Premby, with heavy ought to be a sense of responsibility. This woman's a chump, but she's straight enough; she was down right mad at losing her diamonds, she had enough sense, as soon as I'd talked to her, to agree to co-operate with the Yard,"
кателят. "You can come and sco the bed I slept in. Or you might and footprints on the doorstep." my And
"I'll be right along." sald Playfair, In the meantime, you can wait."
The Count" now appeared. face that belied his criminal record. intelligent type, with a frank, open With him also Playfair elected to thut, plunge in medina rez.
"Aha!" said Dumbell, "Sho's co operating with the Yard, is she? How, may I inquire, sir?"
"By keeping her mouth sald Playfair. "My suspecta nre al-
An
"You've heard," he began, "of this
Who's
ready rounded up; and as, if they're theit at Mrs. Donniger's?" "Theft at Mrs. Donniger's Innocent, they'll know nothing ex-
she?" cept what they hear from me why, I may get n useful admission from someone.'
"Your well-known third degree," murmured Dumbeli. "Just a few
But friendly questions all round.
air-howovur asking many suspects have you? Anyone might have done a thing like that walked into a house and taken dia-
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me
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monds from a a drawer."
"Anyone might," answered Play- fair, but it's very, very unlikely.
"What, you haven't heard of her?" "Never."
"Nor of her famous jewellery?" "Never."
"Ever been in Limbo Street?"! "No, I haven't"
"Go and Ask
Ducoq"
Playfair looked at his notes “You
What
The long arm of coincidence docon't live in Clapham, don't you? often stretch that far. You remem- time did you go home last night?
"Latish. I went for a walk on the bee what it says in that memo I read you: that these diamonds are famous Embankment." diamonds, which the ordinary encak- Moreover, thief couldn't dispose of?
whoever took them was looking for
"What time?"
"Hetween one and two,"
"And you had
them; he didn't stop to do any petty had you, Stufieur booly with you,
"Booty!" said the Count, "I'd have pilfering. There was a platinum looked well, shouldn't I, wandering cigarette case on the dressing table: along the Embankment with Mrs. he didn't even bother to take that,
Playfair's List
of Suspects
Thingumbob's diamonds in my poc- ket! I may have been a fool in my time, Inspector, but I'm not such a fool as that."
Playfair thought for a moment. "That may be so. But in that caso, "No, Dumbell; this theft in tho Stuttering, I'll aske you onother ques-
Are you still
in touch with work of an expert an expert who's tion. in touch with the big shots; and, so Piero Dm not," said Stuttering.
And
for ng know, there aren't many of "No, I'm those at large. I can only think of his manner was that of a man speak three, all of them ticket-of-leave ing the truth, I'm through, with (men;", and those three are walling Ducoq, and you know it, Inspector.
Go and ask him yourself."! downstairs now."
ordinate,
Its passed over the list to his sub- As he left the room Playfair turned to his subordinate. "Well, Dumball: (1) Jem Hutah, commonly known who's our man?" da:7"Flash,#271: Recently released
from Dartmoor.
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