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LEICA EXHIBITION 1937
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February 1-7 inclusive
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IN THE LEISURE HOUR
SOME PROBLEMS FOR READERS
The Telegraph offers its readers a set of questions for solution during Readers are not the week-end. invited to send solutions to The Telegraph and no prizes are offered. The answers are on Page 10 of this issue.
I
1. What was in
(a) Pandora's box
(b) The Pot of Basil
(c) Portia's sliver carket
(d) The Sorcerer's tea-pot
(e) The coffin of Mr. Druce
The Wrong Box?
2. Who did in
(a) Sisera
(b) Cicero'
(c) Mr. Bravo
(d) Lord Frederick Verisopht
(c) John Straker
(f) Israel Hands?
3. Where did
(a) Christian lose his Roll
(b) Gervantes losa his hand -
(e) Nelson lose his eye
(d) Nelson lose his arm
(c) Ben Battle lose his legs
Professor Moriarty lose his grip?
II
What, and presumably why, is the telephone number of New Scotland yard?
III
1. (a) Is a governess & domestle
servant?
(b) Can a "character," supplied for a servant, be held to be libellous?
2. What are
(a) Ancient lights
(b) Dend reckoning
(e) Legal tender
(d) Hostages to fortune
(e) The tocsin of the soul,
(f) Hall mark
(0) Fire mor?
3. What is meant by
(a) M.V.
(b) q.v. (c) Sc.
(d) G.M.T.
(e) G.O.M.
(1) F.H.
(0) C.I.F.
(B) Evoe (1) W.S.7
IV
1. What is the English for
(a) tuxedo
(b) cuspidor (c) purdonium
(d) Menu
(e) servielle
(1) premiere
(a) urticaria
(h) al fresca
(1) porte cochiere
(1) esprit do corps?
2. What is the plural of
(a) mongoose
(b) haggis
(c) grouse
(d) still life
(e) twins
(1) singular?
3. What is the meaning of
(a) wisecrack
(b) kibitzer
(c) stooge
(d), Sturm and Drang
(c) nip and tuck
(f) touch and go?
4. Dlatinguish between
(a) ib. and id,
(b) kith and kin (e) flotsam and Jetsam (d) curds and whey (e) cockle and winkle (1) warp and woof.
1. Arrange in order of magnitude (measured in tons) the following crops grown in Great Britain and Ireland in 1935:-
Potatoes, turnips, mangolds, hay.. ́ ́
2. Arrange in order of magnitude (measured in tons) the quantities of the following fish landed in Great Britain and Ireland in 1935:-
Cod, haddock, plaice, herring. mackerel.
3. Arrange in order, according to the number of passengers served:-
Victoria, Waterloo, King's Cross, London Bridge, Liverpool Street. 4. Arrange in order of average height:-
Scotsmen, Irishmen, Englishmen, Welshmen.
5. Arrange in order of area the territories of the British Empire in:— Asia, North America, Afrlen, Oceania.
VI
1. Returning for a moment, to Question III, 2 (c), is a pound note legal tender as payment for a penny stamp?
2. The subject of discusion being which side of King George VI's head will appear on the new coinage: what governs the answer?.
VII
(a) We want a doublo eight (b) A bump in the gul (c) A anlek through the gully (d) He lay dend
(0) Try a black doctor
(f) Give him the butt
(0) He pulls out pottery (h) Last night they were rear-
ing in the sanctuary?
vut
1. Where did the following live.or.
lodge:
(a) Mrs. Gamp
(b) Sherlock Holmes
(e) Mr. Pickwick
(d) Rawdon Crawley and Becky
(e) Bishop Proudie?
2. Whose are the following preudo-
nyms, and what suggested them:
(a) Bartimeus
(b) Fougasse
(c), Melba
(d) Mark Twain
(c) Ole Luk-ole?
ху
1. Of whom was it said
(e) "He
was a rake among scholars, and Q #cholur among rakes,"
(b) "This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wil among Lords"
(c) Looked like a stableboy among gentlemen, and a gentleman among stabic- boys"
(c) "
was a mha of the world amongst men of letters, u man of letters amongst men of the world"?
2. With what are the following compared:-
(a) "A dinner of herbs where
love is"
(b) To rela in feil" (c) "To hunt in fields" -deycle of Cathay"
(e) "Be d-d''
() "A bad epitaph" (p) "A living dog"?
X
1. Correct the following quotations
where necessary: ---
(a) There the wicked cease
from troubling, and there
the weary are at rest."
(b) "The nations are as a drop
in the bucket,”
(c) "No peace
wicked."
. for the
(d) They that run may rend
It."
(e) "Pride goeth before a fall." 2. Where do these quotations come from:-
(a) "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth"
(b) "The glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was
Home"
(c) "The little rift within the
lute"
(d) "God tompers the wind to
the shorn lamb"
(e)- "The apple of his cyo! (f) "The pen is 'mightier than
the sword"
(o) "I waited for the train at
Coventry11
(h) "I dreamt that I dwelt in
marble halls"
(1) "Rocked in the cradle of the
deep
(f) All is lost except honour" (k).There is no discharge in
that war"
(1), "Absence makes the heart
grow fonder"
(m) "A tale that is told"?
DOCTOR WRITES HIS OWN EPITAPH
THIS epitaph was written by Dr.
Joseph Steele Peatre, Mano- mead-avenue, Plymouth, to be Inscribed on his own grave:
Hic Jacet Joseph Steele Pearse M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Born in Plymouth 1871, Died in 1936, son of Thomas Pearse, M. D and grand son of William Pearse, M.R.C.S., L.C.A. Three generations of Plymouth doctora" from 1848
1032. They were known as the friends of the poor and the needy. and the children's doctora.
to
Dr. Pearse, in his will made pubile left 20,000. Most of his estate goes to charities; he gave his musical bells, accordeon, flutes and violin to Boy Scouts.
"WHY I GAVE £1,000,000"
Berlin, Jan. 15. Sir Henri Deterding, the oll magnate, made a statement to-day on his gift of 10,000,000 guilders
food from Holland,
1. Are a cow's horns in front of or (£1,000,000) to Germany to buy
behind its cars?
2. How many toes hins
(a): The hea
(b) The toad --(0)--The golden plover-
(d) The ostrich.
(e) The elephant
(f) The pobble?
3. To what sports or pastimes might the following expresslons re-
fer:
"The gift," he said, "was made, in view of the necessity of doing away with the cumbersome restrictions -and-giving a start. to. recommencing free exchange of the products of Jabour.
"The world was getting on the road of making gold the world's ruler, which is wrong for. the world as well as for gold."-Reuter."
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