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Of Course You Know,

HERE

But Are You

IJERE they are 25-questions designed as a test of simplicity. If you can answer them, then you might say the questions are simple; if you can't you might say you're simple. It's simple,

ADYWAY.

Another beauty of this little competition is that there are no prizes. This ensures that your amateur status is preserved. No one can point the trembling Anger of professional scorn at you. I think of everything!

Scoring us usual-two points for each correct answer and if you score less than 30, just don't tell anyone.

1. Not heard of the Wailing Wall? Wall, wall- then you won't know it in:~

2.

Culro;

Shanghai; Cunton Jerusalem! Chicago; Berlin.

Jolly Roger was the name of:-

The tavern where Shakespeare WOS born: a country dance; the pirates' ensign;

a popular lodger.

3. 1 was a bit grieved to learn that there was

no special flag for the British:-

Army: Navy, Air Force,

4. If you can't pronounce antirrhinums, the florist will give you the same thing if you usk for:-

Gladiol; larkspurs, cornflowera; snap- dragons, carnations; poppies.

5. Don't go to India without dropping in to see the Taj Mahal-A's at:-

Henares; Calcutta; Bomly: Madras; Delhi; Agra; Lucknow,

6. You should know that de Valera's party in Ireland is called:-

Finnna Foll; Sinn Fein: LR.A.; United Irish: Orangemen; Black nud Tans.

7. They've just sold another fible. I bought it, And about the first thing I've learned from it is that Moses anw the promised and from Migunt:-

Ida; Ararat; Carmel; Pisgah; Lawley; Donna Buana; Cook,

8. Just about everyone gets to know who the world's heavyweight fight champ is-even if they don't care. Can you recall that the holder before negro Joe Louls was:-

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Farr; Schmeling; Baer; Braddock; Darey; Sharkey; Curnera.

Corsica is an island, and if you like lands, a pretty nice Bittle Island, too. It belongs to:-

Germany; Italy; Britain; France; the Sicilians,

10. Everyone has heard of Alaska, where men are men and the good girl always comes out on top. The capital of Alaska is: -

Dawson City; Alabama; Winslpeg; Mon- treul; Juneau; Yukon.

11. And widle we've got this geography urge, let's all repeat after me, "The largest bay in the world is the bay of:-

12.

Fundy: Biscay: Naples: Bengal.

Whales;

The last Russian Czar was:- Nicholas I: Nicholas II; Nicholas I11; Ivan the Terrible; Peter the Great; Ras-, puting Stalin.

Sure?

13. Unless you've palmed a couple of wees, the number of cards you use in the usual game of bridge int

40: 32; 40; 50; 32, 14.

That apparatus the doctor puts to his cara and planks the other end on your chest while he Istenr-in to your inside is called at-

Microscope; cardinescope; telescope; Junguscope; stethoscope; rádioscope; scal- pel.

15. Maybe I shouldn't wake this up, but those who got cleaned up in the mansucre of Glencoe were the

Mackenzies; Compbells; Macphersons; Mackays; McNabs; Macdonalds; O'Briens; Cohens,

16. You call a big old salmon a whopper, but

a nice young salmon-so the dictionary says-is called at-

Minnow; tadpole:

grouste; grise; sardine,

Brouse; Kristle;

17. Suppose-just for fun-the next man you meet nxks you what race the Goths were, would you be able to say straight out:-

French; Latin; Greek; Teutonie; An- tediluvion; Grund National.

18. The Isles of Scilly (pronounced the same as daft) are off the coast of:-

19.

Australia; Italy; Africa; England; Spain. Persia's ruler is known as the

Begum Rajsh; Sultan; Duce; Kaiser; Czar: Lion of Judah; Shah; Pshaw.

20. Half a brick, as the smash-grabber said, is beiter than none. Which brings up the question of what a brick and a half would weigh it the weight of one brick was equal to 4lb. plus the weight of half a brick. The answer is:-

Four lbs; six; eight; 10; 12; 14.

21. Instead of the word powerful you enn-it you want to make a hit with your vocabulary- nonchalantly use the word: ----

22.

Purlent pursuivant; puissant; punk.

pusillanimous;

The man who first Salled round the Cape of Good Hope was:—

23.

Magellan, Cabot, Marco Polo, Captain Cook, Vasco da Gama, Drake?

Sometimes when you go to a party you come across people whom you might say are "de trop"--that is, they are:-

Shy: experi entertainers; the height of fushion; out of place; lovely to look at; under the table.

24. If you don't know what a breviary 15, take two paces to the rear and learn by heart that a breviory is a-

Holy necklace; monks' sanctuary: bishop's gown; church vestry; prayer- book; place where bees are kept; modern swim suit.

25. You're n haberdasher (Aren't you? Aw. well, Just pretend you are) and you've got to cut a strip of cloth 60 yards long into 80 one-yard lengths. It takes you three seconds to cut one length, so to cut the 80 it will take you:-

120 seconits; 160: 170; 175; 170; 177; 178; 170; 180; 83.

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SATURDA OCTOBER 8, 1938

DOUBLE-CROSSER

66OMING, darling?" asked "I get rid of Joo somehow; wait till "Daphine Lerage, putting see him leave the theatre. Then you you

her head into No. 2 dressing that the coast's clear and you can come up to room on her way out from the my dressing-room." Simon had been waiting Clapford Hippodrome,

for some minutes. He was mopping his forc head nervously on a alik handkerchief as he stepped out of the car,

"Not yet, dear," answered Mayflower Renby. "I've still a thing or tivo to do." Her blonde head was bent over her hand- bag, into which she was thrust ing some letters,

Daphine laughed. "I can tako a hint, darling. Good-night; see you to-morrow,

She started to walk along the

corridor. Mayflower's voice called after her: "Can you take Ask Jou to run a message? along to the station and get me some of my cigarettes. By the time he's back, I'll be more pr less ready to go."

"Okay," called back Daphne, "Mayflower's up to something," WAS her inward comment. "With everyone else gone, und Joc running her errands, she'll be all alone in the theatre." She shrugged her shoulders; it was no business of hers.

Joc, the stage doorkeeper, made no demur about undertaking May- Inwer's commission. She'd be all right in her dressing-room, and she'd be sure to give him a bob or so as a tip. And a bob was not lo be sneezed at.

JOE'S departure was watch- ed with interest from a saloon car drawn up on the other side of the street. I'd better not risk being seen coming out to your cur" bad been Mayflower's message to Simon Prisumell.

BRIDGE PROBLEM

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No. 79.

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SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 78

South Itads, spade eight, which West wins, West discarding & dia. mond and North a club. Eust re- turns heart 5, which Soull wins with king. South leads diamond 4. and West playing law. North wins with Jack, East discarding a heart. North wins with king of clubs and West discards a heart. North wins with ace of diamonds and whether East discards the reverse and wins either two hearts or a heart and a club,

If, at trick two, East were to re- turn a club instead of a heart, it tines not help East-West to avoid the same end play squeeze. 'North's discard of club nine at the first trick is imperative, but a more common enuse of failure was the opening tead of a diamond, which Enst coun- ters by refusing to ruff.

Correct solutions from A.E.G., D.W., Finesse, 58023, Mrs. A.K., U.M.U.

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Entering by the stage-door-he was fami- llar enough with the geography of the theatre -Simon ran up to Mayflower's dressing-room.. Hearing him knocking, she shut her bag and thrust it hastily into a drawer. "Darling, I'm so glad to see you." She took both his hands in hers; then, putting her face up to his, she

kissed him passionately on the

mouth.

Simon was unimpressed.

"Damned Ritle Jezebel," he wis saying to himself-even wille he was returning her kisses. "What's she up to now?"

"Listen, darling," he said aloud.

low long have we go!? You've managed things well. I don't want to be caught snooping around here."

Simon had got himself into on all-too-common fix. Infatunied with Mayflower, to whom he had Intro- duced himself at a cocktail party, he had committed the indiscretion of writing her a series of ardent let- ters. These so Mayflower had in- formed bim-hed how

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an exclamation broke from him: "Why, you've got my letters there." Mayflower shut her bag, quickly, but too inte, As Simon came to wards her she hurled her glass at him; it mlas- ed and splintered into fragments on the wall behind him. A moment later the infuriated Simon had seized her by the throat. When he relaxed his hold she was dead.

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR EPISODE 81

"Infernal little double-crosser," was his comment and Mayflower's epitaph-as he set about removing all traces of his presence. The glass from which he had drunk he wiped care-

fully free from fingerprints...as. also Mayflower's handbag, from which with an inward sigh of relief-he extracted the com- promising letters. In a drawer he had found a duster.

With this he removed possible prints from the furniture; from the doorknob; even-as he went down- stalre-from the banisters. He had regained his car, and driven rapidly with away, before Joe returned Mayilower's cigarettes,

On his way back to the West End, Simon Prisammelt stopped hin und, one by one, tore inta tiny Irng- ments the lotters he had written to Mayflowers. As the last of these fragments went out of the window he agair breathed a sigh of relict. The end of a very unpleasant business."

around anywhere?" He said aloud, "I mustn't be too Jang, darling. Here's to all the fun we've had! But what are you doing about my letters--haven't you been able get them back?"

Mayflower, registering deep con- cern, shook her head emphatically

"I'm so sorry." from side to side, she said. "I can do nothing with Conrad. He's got the letters, Simon, and he's hanging on to them. You know how horrid he can be. He keeps on telling me what low water

he's in." been Im- pounded by Jealous husband. There was blackmail in the offing. Simon, after days of anxious brood- ing, had come to the conclusion that he was probably being framed,

"There's plenty of time, dear," said Mayflower, pouring out a drink for him "Joc won't hurry himself. Oh, Simon, you do look funny-

all uver you've got lipstick

your face. Give me your handkerchief - clean it up for you."

"Playing for lime," thought Simon, as Mayflower dabbed at his

checks. "I wonder if Conrad's

PUZZLE CORNER

Cryptogram

It's a fact-

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Use 'Em Again

Here are more from a reader. As usual, use the letters in the words on the left as many times as necessary to form the words defined. The number of letters in these words is indicated. COME AUNT (declaration, 12) — CASH REIN (sweet, 10), CUES (prosperity, 7)

H CÚT LON {1nuuser, 13)

Letter Juggling

Try forming at least 4 six- letter words from the 6 letters. given below. Use all 6 letters in each word:

NSILTE

What Is the Number?'

The sum of the digits of a certain number of 2 figures is 5. If 3 times the units digit is added to the number, the order of the digits will be reversed. What is the number

Shakespearean Plays And Players

Can you match each correct- ly as indicated by the example checked?

Desdemona

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"Htered Simon.

TE toes, does he?" mut- "Black- mail: half expected it. What am I to do, Mayflower-can't you help ine?"

"I wish" began Mayflower: then broke off. She had caught a glimpse of her face in the mirror above her dressing-lable. "I must make my mouth up again, darling: how ug- gravating you are." She took her handbag from the drawer and open- ed it.

Simon looked on moodily. Then

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

NOS. 45-46

4 Pieces

White

G Pieces White to play and mate in

two.

Black

'NO. 46....

8 Pieces

MONIM D

White

9 Pieces

White to play and mate in three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

Solutions to Problems Nos. 43-44

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He was satisfied that Mayflower's murder could not now be laid at his door.

Was

the

Not Inspector Joshua Playfair, to whom the actress' death had been reported half an hour before Prian- mell reached his fiat. The Inspector, accompanied by Sergeant Dumbell,

for

Simon in waiting

intruding, forgive Mr. Prismell," he said, ("No thankx, I won't have a drink.") "I've called because the victim of to-night's tragedy was- belleve- a close friend of yours."

entrance-hull.

"You'll

my

"Victim of to-night's tragedy? I don't understand, Inspector. I've only just got back to town."

"From--?"

"From Norfolk, I've been shooting. But what's this about a tragedy?"

"Miss Mayflower Renby was found dead in her dressing- room an hour or so ago."

"Impossible." Simon's tones suggested anguished incre- dulity. "Why I saw her-when was it?-a fortnight or so ago; she was then in the best of health."

Simon played his part well. A battery of questions could elicit nothing from him. And he cheerfully agreed (Thank God he'd disposed of those let- ters!) to a voluntary search of his person.

WHEN the search was com-

pleted Playfair said:

onc or two "I want to ask you more questions. First, who were the members of your shooting-party?”

"My brother Alfred, Charlie Step- hens, and Lord Pendool. Just the four of us."

"And you left Darebury when?"-- "At about eight."

"Stop on the way at all?" "Nowhere,"

"Then that's all," sald Playfair. may want you nguin, Mr. Prisamell; it so, I'll let you know."

Simon Prismell was arrested two hours later, In the small hours of the morning.

On what evidence?

(Solution on Page Three)

SHE'S SIMPLY

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