Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January, 28, 1939
In The Leisure Hour
General Knowledge Test SOME readers complain that the series of questions
published each Saturday in the Telegraph Supplement are too easy.
For those readers we publish the following set of questions for solution during the week-end.
No prizes are offered, but renders who consider that they have success fully solved a substantial proportion of the questions are invited to send their solutions to the Editor. -
The answers will be published next Saturday, February 4.
I
Who are the present inhabitants of
the following:-
(a) Fulham Palace
(b) Lambeth Palace
(c) Hampton Court Palace
(d) Kensington Palace
(e) Chelsea Palace
(1) Eltham Palace
() Osborne House
·
(x) Esther Jolinson
(h) Dominico Theotocopali
(1) Louise Ramee
(J) J. Korzenlowski
(k) Sydney Porter
(1) F. M. Arquet
(m). B. Poquelin
VII
What are the regulation epithets
for the following nouns?:-
(a) Ovation
(b) Parlourmald
(c) Earl
(d) Norseman
(e) Bivalve
(f) Embodiment
(Grip
(h) The Winter Palure (Lenin-¡ (h) Vote of Krik)
(1) Claremont
11
Supply the missing word in each
of the following partnerships: ~~~
(a) and Treacle
(b)
and Caius
(c) and Merton (d) and Oriental tes and Bailey (1)-and Buckle (6) and Moritz Chand Virginia (1) and Taxis () and Jollilles (k) and Scott (1) -and Hardy
(m) and forkins
(n) and Boring
(o) and Man
(p) and Sele
(a) and Arcite
(r) and Mend
(B) Soc
LII
Du answer to the following questions huve appeared in the paper during the year:-
you read The Times? The
(a) Who sald, and of what? "C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute."
(b) What English town is named after Baghdad?
(c) What statesman wrote "I have never read anything of Dickens, ex- cept an extract in a newspaper"?
(d) What is betontite"?
(e) Who said "Non-intervention is
a potilical and metaphysical term which
means about the same thing
as Intervention"?
() Where
is the only penny struck by the Mint in 18337
(K) What is the name
Miniver's country house?
of Mrs.
(b) What is the longest non-stop night made so far? What aeroplanes made it?
(1) What is the fastest journey ever made between Edinburgh and London? What was the speed and what acropinne made it7
()) The Mayo composite pircraft has made possible a new distance record of 6,045 miles for seaplanes. Which part of the composite aircraft made that night? What is its name and what is the name of the other port?
(k) Who opened the balling for
thanks
(1)Sahib
(in
(k) Hitch
broadcasting)
(1) Sp (horse)
(m)
(n) Instalments (0) Instalment (n) Weed (lo-
ассо).
(1) First-nighter |
VIII
(a) What International footballer
has won a Nobel Prize?
(b) With what game or sport do you unsociate the following?:-- () Hal Sims
(b) Sidney Fran-
klin
(Botwinnik
(d) Bruce Mit-
chell
(e) Lou Gehrig'
(1) Spider Kelly
IX
(x) W. O, Chad-
wick
(h) Amr Bey (i) Nuvolari
James Arque (k) Poler Maher (1) Blucy Wil-
kinson
Whose servants were the follow- ing, and in what plays do they ap- pear?:-
(a) Diggory
(b) Mosca
| (e) Angellen
(d) Lane
(e) Reginn
f) Straker
| (1) Xanthilas
(h) Fiich
| (1) Grumlo
(1) Lulz
(k) Leporello
(1) Firs
X
In what cities are the following streets?:-
(a) Deansgate
(b) Callei Victorei
(e) La Belle Sauvage
(d) Las Ramblas
(e) Promenade des Anglais
(1) Above Bar
(K)
Straight
(h) O Rocio (1) Tombland Ginza
(k) Rokin
(Barker's Pool
(m) The Rows
in) Petty Cury
(b) The Moushky
XI
What is the meaning of?:-- (a) A Lupalissade
(b) Finnebello
fe) A Wootton Winker
(d) A Pilch
(C) A Ha-ha
( Baggywrinkle
(R) A Thank-you-Ma'am
th) A Grummet
Kicking the gong around
XII
In what famous works of iction do
England in the Third Test Match the following appear as narrators of against Australia?
(1). In what country, are the 1840 Olympic Games to be held?
(m) Wint vessel holds the recordi for the fastest eastbound Atlantic crossing? And what vessel bulds the record for the fastest westbound crossing?
IV
Of what books are the following
the opening sentences?—
(a) My father had a small estate
in Nottinghamshire; I was the third
of five sons.
(b) Call me Ishinsel,
-(e) Langtemps; Je me suis couche de banne heure.
(d) Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our cir- euinstances.
(e) The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demnit from the pru-
dent.
(0) It is truth universalty ne- knowledged that a single man in possession of a road fortune, must be in want of a wife.
the story?:-
(a) Mr. Lockwood
(b) Thudy Quirk
(c) Jahn Henry Watson
f) Loudem Dodd
(e) Richard Remington
(1) Mr. Abel
:) Major Sinclair Yeates
(h) Encolpius
(i) Charles Primrose
ti Jedediah Cheishbotham
XII
arc
the
From what idioms derived?; - (a). Stave-uil
bi Prim pillar to post (e) To leave in the lurch (d) There's the rub (e) True Blue
(f) Hope artiitut hope () Running the gamel (h) By the bye (1)
In the ascendant
XIV
Who were?: ---
(g) in my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries. I arrived at the famous Continent, af Universe, a very large and spacious country,
(h) An author ought to consider himself, not as ngentleman who gives
private a
or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all per- sons are welcome for their money.
(1) Ce sont les lapins qui ont ete bie etonnest
(1) Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walk- ing,
fat The Bison
(b) The Tiger
(e) The Tinman
following
(d) The Man of December
(c) Steenie
(0) King Jog
() The Crouchur
(1) Old Flickory
(1) The Harician Miscellany (1) Topsy
(k) The Thunderer
(1) Old Tom and Young Tom (m) The Sea-Green Incorrunti-
XV
(a) What diplomat gave his name to a pudding?
This is Lambeth Walk, Lon- don street recently made famous by the popular dance and song. Back in 1800
a man named O'Keefe opened pleasure gardens around two wells of reputed medicinal value and a leading amusement WDS 10 dance at Lambeth welln. By 1800 the re- sort gained such a bad reputa- tion
that magistrates refused further licences and li Was closed.
(e) He travels the fastest travels alone
who
(1) Charge once more, then, und
be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall, (1) The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light
th) The stately homes of England,
How beautiful they stand, (1) From quiet homes and Arst
beginning. Out to the undiscovered ends. There's nothing worth the wear
of winning, But laughter and the love of
friends. And coming events cast their shadows before
(k) Truth from his lips prevailed
with double sway. And fools who came to acoff
remained to pray.
bird And all a wonder and a wild
desire
() lyric Love, hall angel und hal
(mm) The Grasshoppers come.
XVI
Where are the following?:- (a) The Turn of the Lands (b) The Tall of the Bank te) Bootham Bar
(d) The Land of Green Ginger
(e) The Strid
(1) Boadicea's Tomb
(x) Sham Castle
(h) Ireland's Eye
(1) Malden Castle
+
(1) The Cardinal's Back
(k) Tiger Bay
(1) Wolsey's Tower
XVIII
H
DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF STOPE, WINZE AND KIBBLE?
DERHAPS by now every schoolboy does know "who strangled Atahualpa,” but it is doubtful if Lord Macaulay himself, were he alive, could answer much of the General Knowledge paper which King William's College, Isle of Man. sets its scholars at the end of Christmas term.
For instance, would he know what is meant by the following mining terms:
Slope, winze, poppet head, whim,
kibble, sollars and adit?
Or "What cigarettes are apparently
disgruntled?"
Or even "Who provided a caplitary
are escape?"
These are three from the grim_list which King Willium's boys had to jattempt unseen at the end of the term,
and answer after preparation at the į beginning of next."
WHO SLAPPED WHOM?
Women Join As Air Wardens
WESTMINSTER.
The query Who, in 1936, slapped THIRTY-ONE-YEARS- whom?" should cause a few head- aches for benevolent uncles,
OLD Lord Birkenhead
whom
The nastiest question of nil is, per-made his maiden speech in hops: "Or what work and by are the following first words: There the House of Lords recently was never anything by the wit of as a Lord-in-Waiting. He
so well devised,
was replying for the Gov- established, which is continuance of
man
so sure
Lime hath not been corrupted'?” ernment to a discusion on These are the first words of Arch-recruitment for various de- Bishop Cranmer's preface
to
Prayer-book of 1549. In the present fence services. Prayer-book the passage is the
second preface.
THEN TRY THESE Further specimens from this mo- dern Inquisition follow:
Which Robert was inspired by an arachnid?
What all shares fell heavily this
What vicar is a layman? Who refused to become the Roust Beef of Old England.
(a) What two forces, the one un- der the Admiralty, the other underwear? the War Ofice, share what privilege as a relic of ancient association?
(b) What regiment wears on the back as well as the front of its beaddress, and why?
badge
(e) Why is a Lieutenant-General senior to a Major-General?
(d) What was the last pitched battle fought on English soil?
(e) What regiments have no ser- gennis?
(f) What infantry regiments des cend from the three parties of the Civil War (1) Cavaliers, (2) Round- heads, (33) Covenanterst
C) What is a brevet!
Ch) What was the first Territorial unit to (1) tand in France in 1914? (2) mount the King's Guard at Bur- kingham Palace?
(i) What Territorial Division dur- Ting the War was (1) known as the Iron Division? (2) had the broken spur as its sign?
What wedding humn indicated the stir over a political resignation?
Who told us, to go to bed? No mize, is offered for the correct answers
Virtue shall be its own rewarch,
Walked 10 Years With Back Broken
FOR 10 years 57-years-old
colliery ripper Peter Doherty walked about with a fractured spine.
This was revealed at the Wombwell inquest recently on Doherty, who stayed at Wright- (1) How otany Divisions are there crescent, Wombwell.
in the Territorial Army How many | Eof these are Anti-Aircraft Divisions" |
XIX
Why the rum ration in the Nayy known as "Grog"?
(b) "We won't part without a bat- When was this remark made, by whom, and to whom?
110
A verdict of "Denth from natural enuses" was returned.
He said the National Register was being prepared in such a could be quickly way that it completed in an emergency without unduly disturbing in- dustry.
Referring to the work of local committees, he assured the House that all interest would be fully represented on them.
It was intended that men engaged in key industries who were sullied men should not be taken from their ecrupations it that could be avoided. i Men who
undertook to serve in national services,"
fire คร such frigates, would certainly be retained in those services, at least during the early stages of an emergency.
Giving figures with regard to AJUP., Lord Birkenhead said that on October 31 last the num- ber of air raid wardens required. xas $20.000 men and 100,000 women. The number recruited www. 380,000 men and 85,839 wo- men.
For first-aid posts the number of men required was 140,000, the number recruited 117,205; the number of women required was 220,000. and The number recruited 194,440,
FIRE SERVICE
SHORTAGE
There would be 110 pay during It was stated that the cause of part time in the voluntary services. death was bypostatic congestion of but if such recruits were called upon the lungs in a man with cirrhosis of to do full time they would be paid the liver and heart disease.
for their services on the same basis A doctor stated that injuries re-as the Auxillary Fire Brigades. ceived to his back a colllery accl- In the Auxiliary Fire Service dent in 1928 had no connection with there was a serious shortage. Three Doherty's death,
hundred thousand recruits, including
(e) In what mess in one of his Majesty's ships are the expressions "Fork in the beam" and "Bread- After the coroner had remarked 150,000 men for whole time service erums" likely to be heard? What do that he did not see why the jury and 100,000 women, were required. they convey to their hearers?
should disagree with The doctor's and so far between 75,000 and 100,- (d) What was "The Common Pen- opinion, juryman usked: "Don't 000, mostly men, had been recruited. dant When was it Brst used in you think the accident of 10 years Generally speaking, recruiting for the Navy and for what purpose? go could have aggravated it?" the R.A.F. was satisfactory, und pro- For what purpose is it ised now?
Dr. Jardine: don't think theviding the present high rate was condition of the liver was caused by maintained, there would be no dif- XX
the necident.'
fleuity in' carrying out the expansion Who uttered the following shortly
programme. before their death?:-
(a) It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but no make what haste I can to be gone
(b) Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the
Juror: "I was thinking about compensation. If a man was in a healthy condition they would pay him compensation. I think the accident could be considered as aggravating 14"
In regard to the Regular Army, 221,000 men were required, and there was a deficiency of about 20,- 000. For the Territorial Army, 223,800 men were required, and the Dr. Jardine: "A man may lose a number recruited was Just over log in an seeldent and dic of 200,000. pneumonia."
"We are well aware of the re- (c) What character in Action said now go on to the next
The widow stated that her hus-tribution which will fall swiftly and "Not to know Stubbs's beefsteaks
(d) This, ought to be read to me band had not worked since the ne surely on lethargy and slowness, but
cident in 1928.
(k) Blessed be God, at the end of
(b) What general made his troops the last year I was in very good pay military honours to a vineyard.trees health, without any sense of my old and to which?
pain, but upon taking of cold.
(c) That's Article ninety-eight;
(1) How doth the city sit solitary from other beefsteaks is to say that by a Privy Counelilor
that was full of people.
Y
With what families or persons are the following houses connected?:
(a) Longleat (b) Longwood (c) Bowood Park (d) Strathfield-
סינב
(c) Holkham HaD
Holkham
every woman is the same to you"?
he nearly
E collar of
(d) Who killed himself with brawn?
wrote that
(h) Rufford Ab-from?
bey
(e) I shall hear in heaven
(I) Had Zimrl peace who slew his master?
(g) Dieu me pardonnera; c'est son
metier
(e) What is "kickshaw" derived
(b) Vicisti, O Galilaef (1) Never, never, never, Becton's
(1) Floreat Elonn
(f) What were Mrs. (1) Schloss Jo Christian names?
hannisberg
(1) Varzin
(K) Badminton
Park
(1). Sulgrove
Manor
Pack (g) Floors Castle
VI.
XVI
Who said or wrote the following lines?:-
(n) speak of Africa and golden Joys
(b) Nut lost, but gone before..
I want (e)
to be something so
doll's house.
'By what names were or are the much worthier than the doll in the
following famous?:-
(a) Amandine Dupin
(b) Penelope Dovereux
(e) Yet; thianov
(d) Francesco Bernatone
(e) Jacopo Robusti
(1) Mayer Andaim Bauer
(d) Wealth, my lad, was made to wander,
Let it wander as it will;
Call the jockey, call the pander, Ild them come and take their
CUL.
never
never,
Pheasant Takes
Oil Bath
Pilot Killed In Plane Crush
London.
I can assure the House that we are pursuing a policy which is at once sone and which will enable this country to rise again if it is ever threatened."
"Mustard Gas" Lost From Lorry
On
A yellow and Aluminium training ueroplane flying over the Rolls Royce works at Derby recently suddenly
London, i nose-dived and crushed through the Scores of policemen in cars,
roof of the blue-print office. There bicycles and on feel, Flying Squad was an explosion and the crashed detectives and road-sweepers were machine burst into flames. The plot recently searching for a tin of solidi- Newburyport, Mass.
31-year-old Pilot-Sergeant George A. flod gas of the "mustard" type which Thomas G. McGlew thought he was killed instantly. A dozen people, in- Turnpike-lane, Homsey, and Crickle. Bell, of London Road, Derby, was disappeared from a lorry between seeing things when a pheasant flow cluding a passenger in the plane, and wood. It is not known whether it through an open door of bis welding works gris were taken to hospital fell from the lorry or was stolen. shop and plunged into a barrel Alled many of them suffering from burns. Respirators and oilskin clothing have with machine oll. McGlew scued Firemen prevented the flames spread- to be worn when dealing with this the bird and turned it over to themy and causing a serious fire in the gas, and it has to be diluted with game, warden,
[ damaged building:
wafer before use.
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