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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, AUGUST §. IPL

PRESENTING A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TEST TO DISCOVER HOW WELL-INFORMED YOU ARE—AND TO ASSESS YOUR AWARENESS OF WHAT GOES ON IN THE WORLD

An 11-year-old scored 78% in this quiz-can YOU beat that?

Do you consider yourself reasonably well- Informed? The kind of person who can find his way round a map of the world? Who has an adequate knowledge of history? Who can name our great books and authors? If you do, then read the 50 questions in this-examination paper.

It was recently set up by the head master of Brentwood School, In Essex. to 150 boys seeking entry this September, Those boys were all batween 10 and 11. One of them scored 78 per cent.

The head master, Mir, C. Ralph Allison, says: *We use this type of Genorál Knowledge paper beenuse it seems to us to tell us about a boy's general interesis and his awareness of what is going on in the world." How gencral are pour interests? And how well aware are you of what goes on in the world ?

CURRENT AFFAIRS

present

Arch

Who is the bishop of Canterbury? What was his at pusition ?

2 How long is the term of alfice of the President of the United States 7

Name two countries visited by the Queen and the Duke of Rainburgh during their LOUT abroad this year

4 Who is the Prune Minister

of France ?

5 In which countries would you And a President Karavubu 7 (b) Dr. Fidel Castro ?

Marshal to 2

HISTORY

a tu wont month of what year

was Prince Charles barn? tirst wint

2. Wh

Birret ?

Wathing

How many wives did King Henry VII have?

Who lost the battle of Water

100? To whom

to Name the fesinders of Bro Easter and LWD Western religions

GEOGRAPHY

I Where in this country would

you find fat kuolin ? (b) salt ?

12. Nome tiree of the Cirque

Fort. 13. When что Anticyclone approaches this country do you expect wet or dry weather lo follow ?

14. Name two valuable minerals

med in South Africa.

15 In what countries would you expect to find the following rivers fa the Amazon ? ibi the Ganges 7 to the Yangtse Chiang ?

LITERATURE

10. Where born 7

ShakespearL

17. Who wrote (0) Ivanhoe ? (b) Coral Island? ter Black Beauty?

18. Name one book by each of

(6) Charles Dickens. (D) R. L Stevenson. (e) Dean Swill 19. Who sala: Friends. Romans. countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Cesar. not to praise him " 7

MUSIC AND ART

20. Name two percussion instru

ments and twa woodwind Instruments normally used by a symphony orchestra. 21. Name

tar

П

by

balles Tchnikovsky, (13 na opera by

t. Nugateon. Welfilegton, French,

18. U«»/k«).

WELL-DID} YOU BEAT

·HIM ?-

Current Affairs

Yuri

4. For yearn.

Mähemet.

Geography

Christ,

.

Mozart. (e) an oratorio by Handel,

22. Who painted the Mcba

Lisa?

One

famous

pre

*3. Name

twentieth century painter from each of (a)" ttaly, (bi Holland, (c) Britain).

GENERAL SCIENCE

24. What is the speed of light 7 25 What are the chemicals in

gunpowder ?

28. In what sort of place da you usualty and (a) Blue bella? (b) Heather ? te Wild Iris 7 ( Marram Grass ? 77. Name

satellite,

satellite.

41) A man-made

(2) դ. arturs

28. Which is the hotter 20der

Centigrade of 40deg. Fahren». helt 7

29. Whit 15 the

name for organisms that cause diseases

Colds Influenza, And

mumps?

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Martin

31. In what Modules would you fa) trent the tanke with contempt ? (9) be excited }} you Roln lekte"? tel make sure you had the light behind you?

32. In what games: do you las meld ? (b) bld 7 (e) have

a royal fluslı 7

SPORT

33. In what country and in what

year will the BCKL Olympics Games be held 7

34. With what sports do you associate the following tai

puck a try? (e) & ripuste 7 (d) a putt?

35. Who last won (a) the Deat race (b) the Ashes ? (C)

the

heavyweight

world

boxing title ? (d) the Divis Cup.

36. Who holds the record for

the mile at the moment ?

GENERAL

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 37. Are the Kings and Queens

30. What would you expect to lind in the collections of (a) a numismatist 7 (bn fepl- doplerist 7

of Britain crowned in West militer Cathedral Westminster Abbey ?

38. How many pennies

one ounce 7

Tale of Two Clifes e General Science

island, Kidnapped, Treasure Travels with Donkey. Catriona.

Oulliver

Trivets.

ere. (c)

1. Mark Antuny

15. (a) Commuali, thy Chemire Music and-Art

or DartID.

14. Dover, danskpo, Tiye, Winchel-

sen, 15ytlar. Mandwich, Romney.

13. Dry

13. inli, Blumendi, Crusad

Cupper

15. (a) Bruzil.

Clean.

Archbishop-Of

Literature

1

(4) Cury.

f)

3. India, Pakistan, Nepal

Monsieur Debre.

Yugodavla

History

E. November, 1048.

The Kalmuda,

thy india.

16. Sirattur 1- Avant.

15. (0) Sir Walter Mesit, thi

*12.38.

1. (e)

Aund

Benell 18. (1) Dilver Twist reut Expectations, A Christiesiam Curo), BaTI Times, Ovid Coppertteli. Miebulai Steklely, Bleak House. Our Ato LANT Friend, Pickstel Papers, Bam Boy St. Little Dorzitt, A

20. Kette

Brun Drum, Side Tungle. Tuinbourine, Cym

uphate, Celesta, Flute. Bassoon. Pie

21, 1 Swan Lake, Sterpla Butts, Nutcracker Suite, ther Dra Glavanni Staring b Fizare, Magie Plote. Fast ma Tulle, eragilo. Bastien et Bastienne. (1) Diraslali. onardo da Vinci The answers to Bisa are

fés pluet, Mogel- angeln. Da Vinci, olutta, Mus waselit, <fr) nf, Hembrandt. Van Dyck, Verineer, Kreuzn Van Gogh cei tunstable. Tur- Bel (husborough, Hogarth, Baeburn,

or

1

weigh

21, 180,000 miles per second. 2. Sali petre, Sulphur: Charcoal 98. (a) Brodinna vid heiretam. (b) Moerland. (e) kwamba, inares, river banka. düber,

27. Sputnik

series.

Discoverer меся Explorer series. Luulk. Echo, ale Moan.

28. 20°C.

29. Viruses

General Knowledge

3. (a) Coins,

*** unüyor moths.

(61

#1. () Fratrempitting.

Ing. 1e) Phútuxrophy. 3. () Cannsta.ch)

48) Paker (Hukamy 7).

Sport

38. Jagati, 1904,

34, (2) TestEKES,

Mutieriles

Kellan.

(b) Rugby

Tout bail. tes Fencion. (3) Golf,

་

vu. At sea. what is

mint by (a) a knot ?" ibi fathum 10. What is the approximate

population of the United Kingdom?

41. Where in London would you expect to find bulls And bears"?

12. Where would you lind

Garter King of Artis ?

13. What are the units of cur rency in (a) France ? ini Germany 7 (es Holland 9 idi India?

44: What plants are the badges (b) Wales? 45. In what oceans are (*) Christmas Island 7 (bi Ascen- alon Island 7

or tar Scotland i

#toat

called in

40 What is a

winter? 47. What is the value of •

Borin

18. In what part of the country do people est saffron cakes! 19. In which Gillbert and Buil

Yan opera does Little Butter- cup" appear.7

60. What coin ceased to be legal

tender this year 2

34. (4) Cambridge, (b) Australia. "(k) Pluvit.Patterson. 10) ADS-

Iralia. 28. Tert Killett.

General

31. Westminster Abbey.

38. Threr.

30. 40), Hate of travelling or one nautical mile per hour." (b) sis feet.

Burt

*40,524 mition" coffietal

batore recent census). 41. in the Stock HichanRO.

4. The College of Arms. 42. (a) Frans (5)

Harke

culider (us tupees.

(0) Thistle thi. Læek. 45, 245 fudian or Pacific Oeran.

(b) Atlastle ficent.

40 Ermine.

Tah

4. Cornwa}}. .

Janruu Walden.

41. 41.0.8, Pinators.

50. The farthing

London Express Bervice.

The Government has just announced that it "will"release" Jomo Kenyatta, This is the story of the man who led the Mau May

JOMO

KENYATTA

All but Budd✓ 1

THE

THE twentieth-cen tury was still fresh when Kamau wa Ngengi came to

the Church of Scot- Iland Mission at re- mote Fort Hall in Kenya.

He said he was a Kikuyu

and an orphan. The mis- siónarios reckoned that he would" bo ́about ten years

old. He was a bright, at tractive child and the mis- alonaries took him in and cared for him.

His

They cured him of a spinal complaint, gave him a certain amount of schooling, baptized him "Johnstone," and found a job for him as a kitchen toto (small boy who helps the cook). employer noticed two things, particularly, about him. First, his slant eyes, much more of the proud, fierce typleni warriors of the., Masgi, than of the gentler, more tractable Kikuyu, Affectionately he was dubbed "John Chinaman". Then there was his vivid imagination and his fascinating ability to spin words.

Carpenter

It was clear that Kamau wa Ngeng was not an ordinary youngster.

Yet his progress for a while He was was routine enough. trained as a carpenter and when he became a journeyman, left Fort Hall for Nairobi which was just beginning to emergo es a city,

In Nairobi he found a job at the local waterworks. He found his destiny, too.

At that time, just after the First World War, political awareness was beginning to stir among the Kikuyu, particularly those who, like Komau, had gravitated towards the European settlements,

The Kikuyu Central Associa (ion. was in its infancy and there wus Jamitless scope for articulate young men.

For a hypnotie word-spinner liko Hamau it was too easy. With land-hunger need

lessly chronic ill of his country-as his theme, he talked his way into the presidency of the Kikuyu political organisation. By 1928 he was established ns the spokesman of his people and was publish ing A Kikuyu-language newspaper.

BY

The WAY How You Could Tell This WAS WHEN We got INSIDE THEY WERE

JACKY Mendel Sohn

ase 33 Skipping Rope!

JACKYS DIARY

Last Night Daddy took me to See, a REAL

PRICE Fight,

MEDICINE SQ. GARDEN.

ONLY the PRICE Fighters turned out To Be → CUPPLE

of BiG

Sissys !!

Also they Wood Half to go Sit in the CORNER & getfED FROM a Bottle?|||

BUT WURST ONE OF THEM badda BE A

Sleep by 10 A clock? So that WAS THE END.

aN OTHER thing Was they HAD to have their Mittens TIED ON So theY WOODEN LOSE them.

WAS

WOULD

EN other WAY You Could Tell they Were Sissyrop

WHENEVER THE REVERIE WASNT Looking THEY W START IN

Dancing!

ALL

ODEY

A profile

by

Simon Kavanaugh

JOMO KENYATTA

A year later the Kikuyu found the money to send him to England to state their grievances over land,

ite achieved nothing during the six months no alayed in England. But he saw that only here could he equip himself to lead his people. Within a year he had returned to England, again subsidised by his people, this time to stay for thirteen years.

Jomo Kenyatta seemed also to

·feel a pull in the opposite direction.

Ile defended, eyen praised Kikuyu (ribal customs, many of which wero hopelessly out of place in a modern society. He poseil for a photographí, dressed in skine and re- flectively testing the point. of an African spear. Was it barely con- acious nostalgia for a simpler life?

Curiously, despite this fosst of his character Kenyatta show- ed no signs of fanaticism. When he presided over a Pan African Congress in Manchester in 1945 from attended by delegates

States and Africa, the United the West Indies, his urbanity and quiet humour stood out in vivid contrast.

Eden

He was critical of the Euro- peans in his native Kenya, but not aggressively so.

This moderation did not setm To the Londoners who passed him in the street, Kamau was to survive the return Journey just another poor, coloured to Kenya in 1948. The demago- student the Was studying guery which until then he had anthropology). But there was left to others belled to the sur- taking place within Kamau a face. His appeal to his followers transformation which one day was atavistic, He struck hard of their tribal was to reach out and affect the on the chord destiny of the white men who

had settled in Africa.

no

Kamau wa Ngengi was

more, along with "John Chinaman" and "John- stone." The burly figure with the beard which is the badge of African dationalism Jomo Kenyatta-"Man of Kenya".

was

now.

When war broke out he be- worker came an agricultural (they called him "Jumbo" in the local pub) and he married an Englishwoman and had o БОЛ by her.

But if outwardly he was like the others, Inwardly there raged a struggle which may yet re- main to be resolved,

While the other potential leaders

were dedicated to Westomising, modernising and eralising their countries,

AND ALSO THEY HAD ON SHORT PANTS!

the belief that somehow Kenya pride. He sawed among them would be another Eden with- aut the white man,

He began to'nfect the trap- pings of a "leader" — a massive, heavily-carved walking stick, a great blu-stoned ring on his index finger, a khak! corduroy safari sull of the land worn by white hunters.

He lived in style in a European-type house, his growing paunchiness a contrast to the purliani- cul code of behaviour he urged on his followers.

Depravity

Mau

Then in 1962. Mau erupted in all its unmentionable obscenity. It was far worse than the reversion to the primi- five that many believed it to be, or the nationalist rebellion that others saw in it.

T

It was a calculated attempt to doprave a whole people. Ka adherents, either voluntarily or under duress, took paffis, so obscene that" they become lost Bouls capable of any depravity.

In the holocaust which WAS primiy described as "the emer geney" the Kikuyil people suffered most. It coat 20,000 lives: And Jomo Kenyattäj little Kamau wa Ngeng from the 'misalon school, Wals tried and convicted of managing Mau

Mause

He served six years of a sapen-year sentence and what he was released was exiled "to the barren Northern Frontier District,

Martyr

During his absenco a new generation of young African leaders has risen. But they have found that the shadow of Tomo still lies heavily on them. For Kenyatta has achieved marlyr status and the idealised picture of lim is so clear. In the minds of hundreds of thousands of Africans that the indw Teaders know that thiy must invoke him as figurehead.

Thus they make a 'sbow (DỆ vying for, "^^his blewing and thy, clamoured for his rele609 from exile, "The pussytooling of the British”: Güvernment on this score hai hesrlened thêm into knowing that Kenyatta Would mon be released,

Only time and events, will show whether Jomo" Kapasita

·là a changed), man, or whether | the'anill-while demagoguery Hie

best insinaided by.

exile.