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The Hongkong Telegraph" Brains Test
CHRISTMAS DAY
Answers on Page Three
1... What "port" of the World is called.tlie:
(a) Old
-Dominion
(c) Down Under
(d) Antipodes
(b) Empire State..
Spanish mass is
Medicine
Hypocritical piece of politenesa v
Form of moss hanging from trees
Istand in the Caribbean
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10. Which of these colours occur In the rainbow!--
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Violet Indigo
Black Green
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Dr. Benes
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Jehu, King
of Israel
Moses
Julius Cæsar
2. King Richard 1. was found by
3. With what inventions, in you his minstrel Blondel when he lay
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(a) Volta
(e) Wait
(b). Lilienthal (1) Gottlieb
(c): Edison
(d) Pasteur
proner int→→→
The Holy Land
Flanders
Austria Scollant
France
Turkey
Daimler
13. Complete the
titles, Lord:-
4. In which plays of Shakespeare
do these appear:→
(a) Queen
(c) Mercutio* Gertrude (d) Regan' (b) Lauhcriot (2) Cleopatra
Gobbo (1) Prince
Theseus
5. Which of these are States in
8. The Territorial Army
(a) Howard of'
b) Russell of (c) Montagh of
(d) Grey of
(c) Kitchener of
(f) Nelson of
14. Complete the quotations:
(a)" polished up that handle so enrefuelles"
(h) "ifere les our Sovereign Lord the King
.
fe) "Spare the rud"
fil "When Britain first at Heaven's
John Gilpin was a citizen" • 15. Could you drive, in »;-
fd) Blunderbus
the U.S.A
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Dakota
South Virginia
Weal Carolina. West Virginia
(a) Coracle
WAR
(U) Drosky
(c) Wimple
(e) Curricle (f) Ventricle
started by:-
Kitchener Roberts
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Chamberlain
16. Who The:-
Thrush Fip
killed
Cock
Roblu?
Sparrow
Bull Jabberwock Spider
Baden-Powell
· Lurd Hatdane
Garuel Wolseley
7. One of these writers had a club
foot:-
Dickens
Pope
Byron
Shelley
8. Georgia is part of the; -
British Empire
U.S.A.
9.
17. Which of these lay in the Roman Empire:-.
Prussia
Tempson
Persia
Scotland France
Arnold Henneti
Libya
Spain
18. "The rain il
Sorter Unton Australia
day" eye-
Shakespeare
Goldsmith
Lewis Carroll
Is it true that:---
(a) The Czechs were once ruled
by an English Queen
(b) Gladstone began his career as
a Conservative, Distacit as a Radical
(c) Ben Jonson wrote "Drink 10
me only with thine eyes."
(d) Ail British carniry regiments
have been mechanised
Mark Twain
19.
ralneth every
Robert Burns Carlile
Which of these can fly? At-
Cormorant
Widgron Laughhup
Tapir
Condor
Jackass Turnpike
20. Who wrote:--
(a) "War and Peace"
(b) "Economie
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the whole story of Christmas Day In pictures
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CHRISTMAS Day dinner uffers put on. Binap the guests as they ari one of the year's best ppor. rivo, Catch a snapshot of the turkey tunities for a series of story-telling as it is taken steaming from the pictures. There pictures can be overi, nested in golden-brown pota- taken easily, with any kind of cam-toes. These proparations make ro- ern, and they will occupy proud markably interesting picturen-so plaro In your snapshot album, don't inlas a detaili
At dinner, you will be pretty busy Most of the pictures will ke indoor with food-hut It's easy to tako n suapshots, and these are easy nowa | few moments aut now and then for days. All the equipment you need a snapshot. Keep the camera at la two or three large photo bulbs hand, and arrange your lights no and some inexpensive cardboard re- they can be pinced quickly and vetore. Serow the photo bulla into į snapped on. You'll want a pleture of bridge lamps, attach an extension the whole table, with everyone cord so the lamps can be moved seated, just before dinner begins. nhout ranlly, lond your camera with † Then there are Individual shots- a lust, punchromatie nim of the saper | Milly admiring the turkey Ann type-and you are nil ready to flre busy with an enormous "drumatick” away.
-Uncle John cracking nuta, Don't limit the pictures to the There is much more inner itself. to shoot. Start early. Get a picture of Mother with her banket, bringing In the Christmas groceries--or one of the store delivery huy bringing them in.. Show the mixing of the Christums enke--and after it is you. baked, take a pleture as the icing is
Concerning
(d) "Wealth of Nations" (e) "Coningsby" (D) "Essay Understanding."
Answers on Page 3
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You can eaally soc what a splendid story there in to tell-and there will he many more pleture chances than those listed here. Better alart mink- ing your plans, and let the family help make up a lot of "must" snap- shots. It will be fun for them as well
John van Guilder.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1938.
LADY CYNTHIA'S
TIARA
THE coming-of-age of which comes to Lady Cynthia
Lady Cynthia Fair-from the Earl and Countess."
"Makes your mouth water, į bright, elder daughter of the Earl of Towcester, was think. If we lift
doesn't it?" he said. "I don't that tiara, a big event in the Shires. we'll be popular with the publle, Preliminary details of the and we'll be more than popular celebrations which had been with the Presk; and ns for dear little Cynthin-who, you may planned the garden party,
say, will be dissoppointed at her the ball, the fireworks-ta-ra-rus disappearance-Coun occupied columns in the tess Vanderpant can. fork out local papers, and did not another from the family collec- pass unnoticed even in Fleet Street.
A splash in the Daily Tribune, with a picture of Lady Cynthia at the wheel of her Rolls Royce coupe, occupied the better part "Heiress comes of of a page. age," it was headed, with a sub. title in bold type, "$50,000 tiara."
DOMINICK LIGHTFEET. cat burglar, studied this item with his customary con- centration as he toyed with his matutinal kipper. His wife, Eleanor, who had finished, her own breakfast-an apple-re- garded him the while with amused detachment.
According to Mr. Culbertson. husband and wife seldom play well together at Bridge. In the cat burglary business success. ful partnerships are even rarer than at the card table.
Lion."
"Grand," said Eleanor. "It She
ought to be fun, Nick."
You've left your kipper. Never mind, it's too cold for you to
You'll meet Il now. again to-night in the form of a savoury."
began. to cleur the table.
ent
"That,"
replied where you're wrong.
Nick.
it
"is We go
down to Blackleigh on the 11.40 from Marylebone."
"I suppose." said Joshua Play- fair to his sergeant, when, four days later, the news reached him that during the night the tiara had disappeared, "I sup- pose that this is the work of Nick and Eleanor.
"FAIRBRIGHT Manor
was entered, I gather, through a window on the fourth floor-the only floor not fitted up with burglar alarms. Nick Dominick and Eleanor Light--who for the moment we'll assume it was-seems to have feet were an outstanding excep-climbed up where you would tion to this rule. Eleanor was
have thought that no one could sure. from her husband's ex-get a handhold: to have entered pression, that something in as I say, through this fourth- teresting was in the wind, and floor window; to have forced a. she was ready to summon her couple of doors without making own energies to his assistance any noise; and to have ab- as soon as she was called upon stracted the tiara almost from to do so.
under the nose of a so-called Presently Dominick looked up | private detective. The latter— from his paper. "Date, darl-so we're told-was 'on his ing?" he said.
"I beg your pardon?" Eleanor smiled. "You've got the paper, dear," she said. "If you'll pass it over I'll tell you.'
"Stupid of me," murmured Dominick; "the seventeenth, of course. That gives us, let me see, six days,"
"Six days?"
rounds at the time. I should think, judging by what the Earl tells me, that he was hav- ing a round or two of drinks!".
"And, meanwhile," said Dum- bell, "the thief made good his escape.”
INSPECTOR
PLAYFAIR
EPISODE 91
was,
North Kensington to find, as he,
that Playfair expected, ulready there. A wink and a murmured word or two from Eleanor as she opened the door to him told him all he needed to know. She had already, ac- cording to plan, informed the Inspector that they had spent the previous evening quietly together and that her husband had slept at home; their car, meanwhile-as Playfair had already discovered-had re- mained undisturbed in its garage.
Dominick greeted Playfair with just the right blend of off- handedness and hauteur.
"What's gone
wrong, now, Mr. Playfair 7?" he asked. "Some- body been pinching something? I should be sorry to think that the bungling efforts of some amateur had been attributed to me."
Playfair smiled. "I should hate to think of that happening. I understand, Mr. Lightfeet, that you've just been out for an early morning stroll?"
"Correct," said Dominick. "Having spent the night here in your flat."
"As you say."
"In that case, I need hardly trouble you with details. But I should just like, if I may, to inspect your shoes."
"With pleasure," answered Lightfeet. "I'll take them off for you, shall I?".
PLAYFAIR studied
the
shoes attentively. His original surmise had been right; there was nothing to identify their wearer as the thief who had left the footprint in the flowerbed.
Nevertheless, Dominick Light- feet went back to the Yard with Playfair. The Inspector: had arrested him on suspicion.
"Soul's awakening," had been his comment as his prisoner was marched off to a cell. "My.
"Precisely," said Playfair. "Leaving no fingerprints?—" "Don't make me laugh, Dum-apologies, Dumbell, I don't often
deseend to puns."
"In which to snaffle Lady | bell--" Cynthia's birthday tiara." Do-
"And no other trace of his
minick, who in politics called presence?" himself a Communist, sniffed "Actually," superciliously as he pushed back his chair. This is all I know about it so far:
"'Among the hundreds of presents which will be on view al Fairbright Manor is the din- mond tiara, valued at £60,000,
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem BY "FINESSE "
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10 7 3
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There are no trumps. South leads and North-South have to win seven
of the nine tricks,
Solutions by first post Wednesday to: "Bridge Problem.“ Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM 88 Aguinst the best defence South can win nine tricks in this fashion: On West's lead of Jack of hearts, North wins with Queen, and the club the
said Playfair, "Mr. Lightfeet-false, for once, to his name--left a footprint in a flowerbed. So, at least, the local constabulary report. They've taken a cast of it and photographs; but, according to the superintendent, it won't help us much as the shoe's of a stock size and has no dis- tinguishing characteristics."
"I should have thought," said Dumboll, "that Lightfeet climbed in rubber soles.”
“So should I," said Playfair. "but he seems to go out of his way to annoy us."
LIGHTFEET'S theft of
and
the tiara-for it was, of course, he, as Pinyfair conjec- tured, who had brought off this sensational coup—had been very carefully planned. He Eleanor had spent a day making; a preliminary reconnaissance; then Eleanor had returned to town to stage an alibi for her husband, while Dominick, single- handed, carried out the theft. He had anticipated, with singu- lar accuracy, what the reactions of the Yard would be.
The manufacturing town of Blackleigh is about six miles from Fairbright Manor, and Dominick having abstracted the tiara some time between mid- night and one o'clock, had re- turned to Blackleigh and spent. some four hours at the Railway as many potatoes શક onions; three is led. East puts up half as many radishes as onions ist switches to spades, and North's town on
Quren, which is allowed to win, Hotel there before returning to the breakfast train. and potatoes combined; "alf as King wins. A small diamond from many tomatoes as potatoes and North forres East King. South aise The Railway Hotel, with its two radishes combined; and half us wins with club Ace, discarding hundred and fifty bedrooms, fu one of the largest in the Mid- South leads a heart, and, with a landa; Lightfect hnd argued ; finesse if necessary, North wins two that stranger there-a more heart tricks, also wins with stranger dressed as a commer
many beets as radishes and tomatoes combined. How many of each kind of vegetable did ha¦ plant?
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North's small heart.
master spade, and with small
Acc
nud
spade throws East in the lead. "East cial traveller and wearing tiwer his remaining spades, but glasses and a false moustache- eventually has to lead up diamonds, would pass unnoticed in IL and North-South's
ten crowd. both win-in all three hearts, three
Nor, indeed, did any- diamonds, two spades and one club one at the hotel (until, later, certain' inquiries were received There is an intricate and tricky from Playfair) connect him variation, curiously enough preferred
-nine tricks.
by most solvers, wherein East's Jack with the theft. He had even Is allowed to win the first lead of had the effrontery--when at diamonds from North, and North's six in the morning he rang for Ace of diamonds is later discarded
on South's lend of club Are, and Carly ten and his shoes-to Went is thrown. In the lead with the make a casual reference to the third club lead. Sul later, after forthcoming celebrations at the West has been cleared of spales, he Manor.
Is ngain forced into the lead with
the heart detice and must lead
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his
At half-past nine, having diamond up to South's master, and temporarily disposed of
club accounts for the last trick., booty, he reached his flat in
ON WHAT
EVIDENCE HAD LIGHTFEET BEEN AR- RESTED?
Solution on Page Three
PROBLEMS
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