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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February

4, 1939.

9

In The Leisure Hour

General Knowledge Test

The answers in the "General!

Knowledge questions published in (a) Manchester. the Hongkong Telegraphi Jast Satur-| (6) Bucharest. day are given below;-T

I

(a) The Bishop of London.

(b) The Archblattop of Canter bury.

(e) Persons to whom suites are assigned by the King in token of his regard.

(d) ILR.H. Princess Beatrice and other members of the Royal Family,

(c) None. It is a theatre. (1), Mr. Stephen Courtauld.

(f) Convalescent pilleurs of the

Army and Navy,

(h) Nune. It is a museum.

(1) Schoolgirls and teachers.

(a) Brimstone.

(b) Gonville,

(c) Sandford, (d) Peninsular, (e) Barnum.

Monypenny.

A Mix.

(h) Paul.

(1) Thurn.

Jaunts.

II

1(k) Liddell.

() Laurel,

III

(m) Spenlow.

(n) Bumping.

(o) Sodor. (p) Saye.

(4) Palimon,

(r) Make.

(a) Snc,

(a) Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe (1761-1840) of the execution of the Due d'Englen in 1804. (Sept. 10).

(e) London,

(d) Barcelona.

(e) Nice,

(r) Southampton.

(1) Damascus, (i) Lisbon,

X

(1), Norwich. (1) Tokyo.

() Amsterdam. (1) Shefeld.

(in) Chester.

(n) Cambridge. (0) Cairo.

(a) A self-evident truth.

Helas! La Palisse est mort.

Il est mort devant Pavie. Helas! 'il n'etait pas mort, Il serait encore en ufc.

(b) A term in chess.

(e) An Intermittent red light em- ployed to mark turnings on by-pass

roads.

(d) A garment worn by babies. (e) A sunken fence,

(C) Challon gear on the shrouds of sailing vesseln,

(2) A humpbacked bridge.

(h) A wreath of rope.

(1) Taking drugs.

XII

(a) "Wuthering Heights," Emily Bronte.

buy

THE CATHAY CLIPPER, the first of a fleet of six of the new Clippers from the Boeing Aircraft

of Seattle, which is expected to arrive at Kal Tak shortly.

(b) "Castle Racktent" by Marin Edgeworth.

(e) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," &c., by A. Conan Doyle. (d) "The Wrecker," by. Stevenson.

(b) Baldock, named hy the Knights Templar from Baldae the. G. Wells. French version, of Baghdad. (Sept. 9),

(e) Dinracti to Lady Londonerry in 1857. (Sept. 9).

(d) "Concretitis" the special form of "blues" which afflicts the garrison

of the Maginot Line, (Aug. 18).

(e) Talleyrand. (March 18).

(e) The New Macchiavelli," by

(f) "Green Mansions," by W, B. Hudson.

() "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. &c., by E. . Somerville and Martin Ross.

th The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

(1) The Vicar of Wakefield," by () "Tales of My Landlord," by Walter Scott.

(r) Under the foundation stone of Oliver Goldsmith. London University, (Murch 7).

() Starlings (Jan. 7).

(h) 7,102 inlles from Egypt to Australia. Two Wellesley bombers of the R.A.F.

XII

(a) Bear-baiting.

to pillar"). (b) Court-tennis (should be "from

backgammon.

(e) Lourche, a game resembling

(1) That made by Squadron Lea-post der J. Gillan on February 10, 1938. The speed was 400.75 miles an hour, The aeroplane, a Hurricane fighter of; the R.A.F

The upper part. This is the float seaplane Mercury. The lower part in the flying-boat Malu.

(k) Nobody, the third Test Match was abandoned owing to rain.

(1) Finland.

(m) The Queen Mary holds both,

IV

(a) "Gulliver's Travels,"

Jonathan Swift.

(d) Bowls.

(e) From the Covenanters colour as opposed to royal scarlet.

(1) "Who against hope believed in of many nations."Ron. iv, 18. hope, that he might become father

(#) The Swedish galopp, a row lane.

(b) Dicing. (1) Astrology.

XIV

lay

(a) Lord Paunuure.

(b) Clemenceau.

(c) Fred Archer.

(b) "Moby Dick," by Herman

Melville..

(c) "Du Cote de Chez Swann," by Marcel Proust.

(d) Napoleon III,

nar-

(e) Duke of Buckingham (1502-

HERE COMES THE

NEW CLIPPER

Third of a Series of Saturday Articles

On Aviation By

Our Aviation Correspondent

Company

PIG FARMING BAN

Urban Council Seeks To Obtain Clearance

A case in which 27 people were charged before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy on January 27 with having failed to comply with a notice served on them by the Urban Council, requiring them to cease keeping swine without licences, was further adjourned when it came up before the Magistrate yesterday.

The adjournment was made on the application of Mr. W. A. Mackinlay, of Deurons, who is defending the Assistant Crown Counsel, appeared for the prosecution.

IT is probable that no plane in aviation history has people concerned. Mr. 1... Prentes

Mr. Muckinlay informed The

undergone more exhaustive tests than the new Boeing 314., which, as announced through the cables earlier in the week, has arrived at San Francisco from Seattle in preparation for the forthcoming trial flight to Hong-ceived Instructions from his clients kong.

When designers worked out plans for the new air monster, they were faced with the task of building the world's biggest transport plane, but one that was wires connecting them to instrument commercially sound as, in contrast to panels in six different test head- Germany's DO-X and the Soviet quarters on the Clipper's flight deck. Maxim Gorky, both of which were At these headquarters, test en- approximately as large as the Boeing, incers compiled continious records It was realised by the engineers during the light. Readings of the that it the new Clipper proved instruments were taken sometimes practical they could build much by periodic camera exposures, in

(d) "Severt Pillars of Wisdom," Joe George Lambton, Earl of farger planes in the future simply other by manual tabalation.

by T. E. Lawrence.

(e) "Waverley," by Walter Scott.Durham (1792-1842).

and Prejudice,"

by

"Pride (1) Jane Austen.

() "The Holy War." by John Bunyan.

G. L. Jessop,

(h) Andrew Jackson. (1) The children of Jane Elizabeth Harley, Countess of Oxford

(h) "Tom Jones," by Henry Field-(1824). ing.

(i) "Lettres de Mon Moulin," by Alphonse Daudet.

()) "The Old Curiosity Shop." by Charles Dickens.

(k) Penya's Diary.

(1) The Lanentations of Jeremiah.

V

(J) Willian Morris.

(c) The Times.

(1) The Tom Andrews,

(m) Robespierre.

(1773-

by expanding their original plans. They were unable to do this before,

A SAMPLE TEST because the 314 is so much larger

Temperatures were taken at the and further ahead of any plane now leads and bases of all id cylinders of in commercial operation.

one motor, and two cylinder heads and bases of each other engine, on GRUELLING TESTS

magneto coils, spark plug elbow The Boeing completed her tests fuel lines, vacrum oil pumps, oll several weeks ago. Morrises of St. tested by the manufacturers, then by accessory compartments ...

First she was coolers, in carburretor air intakes, even in the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and the tiny cell of

an exhaust gos then by Pan American Airways, Inalyser that checks the mixture of three months of testing at Seattle fuel and air burned in the motors. the Clipper was flown 5,000 miles. A special station was set up to taxied on the surface of the water tests. It consisted of Instruments It was taken off and landed 80 times, obtain accurate resalta in the taxling 450 miles, or as far as two-thirds of mounted on a lighted panel in front the light from Hongkong to Munila. of a camera, registering the rate of to

The whole of the plane weighed on a series of scales, just alteron angles and

was turn, roll, elevator, rudder, and air and engine roast. as a butcher would weigh pot speeds. And then because the duralumin surface was covered with

IMPROVISED LABORATORY

XV Chateaubriand, Pouding diplomate, originally Poud- Nowadays (a) Thynne (Marquess of Bath). his cook Montmiret.

ing a la Chateaubriand, conceived by b) Bonaparte. (c) Petty (Marquess

of

le, Clos

(b) Generul Bisson Lans-Vougeot.

(e) Count Pateroff in Trollope's (d) Wellesley (Duke of Welling-"The Claverings."

downe).

ion).

(e) Coke (Earl of Leicester).

) Hervey (Marquess of Bristol). (g) Innes-Ker (Duke ot Rox- burghe)

th) Savile (Marquess of Halifax). (1) Metternich,

(3) Bismarck.

(k) Somerset (Duke of Beaufort).

(1) Washington.

VI

(a) George Sand.

(b) Sir Philip Sidney's "Siella."

(e) Lenin,

(d) St. Francis of Assisi,

(c) Tintoretto.

(t) Rothschild.

(K) Jonathan Swift's "Stella."

(h) Greco.

(1) Ouid.

(1) Joseph Conrad.

(k) O. Henry.

(1) Voltaire.

(m) Mollere.

(a) Veritable. (b) Trim.

(e) Belted.

(d) Hardy.

(e) Succulent.

(1) Living. () Vice-like.

(h) Heurty.

(a) Professor

VH

(i) Inveterate. (1) Pukka.

(k) Technical, (1) Dreaming. (i) Spanking. (n) Elsy. (o) Gripping, (p) Fragrant.

VI

Niels physicist, who played Football for Denmark.

Bohr.

the Association

(b) (a) Contract Bridge.

(b) Bull-fighting.

(c) Chess.

(d) Cricket.

(e) Baseball.

(f) Boxing.

(p) Rugby Footbali.

() Squash Rackels.

(i)Motor-racing.

(1) Association Football.

(k) Horse-racing.

(1) Dirt-trrek racing.

IX

(a) Mr. Hardenstle in She Stoops to Conquer.

(b) Valpone In Jonson's play. (c) Old Capulet In Romen Juliet,

(d) Algernon Moncrieft in Importance of Being Earnest.

(e) Mrs. Alving in Ghosts. (f) John Tanner in Man Superman

(g) Dionysus in The Frogs.

(d) Byron (letter iu Tom Moore, April D. 1814).

(e) "Quelque chose."

(f) Isabell Mary.

XVI

<

1

(a), Pistol in Henry IV, Part 11. (b) Seneva in his letters. (e) Bella Rokesmith i "Our Mutual Friend."

(d) Samuel Johnson in "One-and- Twenty."

ners.

Rudyard Kipling in "The Win- () Matthew Arnold in "The Last Word.

(R) Jonathan Swift in "The Battle of the Books.

(h) Mes. Hemans in "The Homes

of England."

(1) Hilaire Belloc in "Dedicatory Ode."

(1) Thomas Compbell in "Lochiel's Warning.

(k) Oliver Goldsmith in "The De- serted Village."

(1) Robert Browning in Ring and the Book."

"The

(m) Edward Lear in "Calico Pie."

XVI

(a) Newmarket,

(b) Greenock.

(c) York.

(d) Hull.

(e) in the River Wharfe near Bolton Abbey.

(1) Parliament Hill, Hampstead. (g) Bath.

(h) An island north of Dublin

Bay.

(1) The 10th hole at Prestwick. () Near Dorchester, Dorset.

(k) Cardif

(1) Ester.

XVI

EVEN VIBRATION WAS MEASURED

the early morning dew at the time. An improvised laboratory was es- engineers had to take a sheet of the tablished in one of the mall compart- the wing to record metal, spray it with water and figurements inside out how much should be deducted vibration at various points. The from the gross weight for the "wet amplitude and frequency of vibra- poundage."

tions were units operating on the same prin- registered on pick-up ciple as the earthquake seismograph -which translated them into elec- Everything about the Clipper was rical impulses and transmitted them measured, even the vibration and to the recording room the amount of nie dowing across the were transformed into jagged streaks where they four Cyclone motors. Two hundred of light on a screen. and sixty "atethoscopes" were ap- plied to the operating mechanisms, Before each fight, test engineers These manufacturers' tests brought equipped themselves with fresh sets into use the most elaborate scientifle of churts, ruled off into hundreds of tests in aviation history.

squares. A typical two-hour flight resulted in more than 600 entries on the charts.

Detector devlees were located all over the plane, a maze of electric

Magistrate that he had not yet re-

with regard to a petition which he was going to present to His Excel- iency the Governor. petition. If the petition were sent, It would take some time for him to prepare the

Mr. Mackinlay said that he would have to wait for reply before he could go on with the case.

die, saying that it seemed absurd He asked for an adjourunent sine

to go on with a case that was to be reviewed by the Governor. If the petition were to be rejected, then the case could be got on with, and the question would arise as to whe- ther or not his clients had offended. Mr. Prentis sald that he was pre- away. The defendants in the pared to go on with the case right been keeping swing without a

case had

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for some time, and this had been car-Hongkong Dept. Tel. 21279 Gloucester Bldg. 2nd Flr. Tel. 28938 ried on for some years. The Urban Peak Dopot. Tel. 29352 Council had advised them from time to time to take out a licence and to comply with the by-laws, but they had not done so. In September last year, the Urban Council decided not lo issue any more licences within the area" of Kowloon or New Kowloon for the keeping of swine,

More Action to Come

Mr. Prentis said that if the Magis trate were to adjourn the case, which had already been adjourned from last week, there would be no end of adjournments. He understood that in the

near future, close on two hundred similar summonses were to be taken out against pig owners.

Mr. Mackinlay replied that his clients had previously had licences, but at present permits simply because the Urban were without these

more licences. Council had refused to issue any

"It is admitted by the Urban Coun- ell," he said, "that their polley is to abolish pig-farming by September 30 this year, and gradually to induce all pig breeders business to the New Territories.

to transfer

their It The man at the flying controls of the Urban Council is not to allow therefore seems to me that the policy during these tests was pilot Eddle anybody to keep ples in Kowloon. Allen, a diminutive veteran who Is The Council's policy is not so fur- rated as one of the world's greatest fetched as it might sound at first. used to wear at sea a coat made of

pilots. One day he emerged 1804-1757, from the control room to say:

"Mr. Todd's own admission is that grogran, and in consequence was handles like a small sport plane.

"This bout weighs 41 tons, yet over 100 pigsties in Kowloon will be nicknamed "Old Grog" by the Lower can manage it with two fingers on really a rather serious question. With I abolished by September 30. It is Deck. Up to his time the seamen's the control column and less forte on rum ration had been issued neat, but the rudder pedals than it takes to monses, they all come under the same he introduced the custom of diluting, drive a motor-car,"

(Dismounted Yeomanry),

(J) 18:5.

XIX (a) Admirai Verson,

if with three parts of water before Ever since then, rum diluted

its une.

for issue has been known as grog.

test

OFFICIAL RECORDS

When the Boeing engineors were (b) By Nelson to some of his cap-finished, the Civil Aeronautics Au- talos in July, 1815, when returning thority--America's from the West Indies during his experts began compiling a mass of pursuit of Villeneuve.

reconls on

Air

to these regard

particular

sum-

heading, whether these people had licences or not. The point is that they cannot get them now if they apply."

Mr. Prentis asked the Magistrate, to make an order that the conditions

Ministry- set forth to pig breeders be carried out within 28 days, but Mr. Him- the big boat's flying sworth remarked that he would not (c) Gunroom, fork stuck in qualities, the beur Was the signal for all Meanwhile construction had gone youngsters.c., under 18-to clear on ahead on the next two Clippers, Governor. out of the mess. "Brenderumbs" and now three are ready and another

like to make an order in a case that was going to be reviewed by the

(a) The Royal Marines and the was an order to the same young and three nearing the final stages. Be- 3rd Bn., Grenadier Guards, both innocent members of the

The Magistrate adjourned the ease originally associated with the London stop their cars-Le, to put lumps of No. 1 plane, interior furnishings and kinlay said that as soon

mess to cause of the exhaustive tests on the until Wednesday next, and Mr. Mac- train bands, are entitled to march bread in them-as the seniors were decorations were not Installei.

as he re- through the City of London with about to reinte anecdotes unit for

colved instructions from his clients, However, the other planes were as to whether he should petition the bayonets fixed.

those of tender years to hear.

furnished when underdoing Governor or not, he would inform

will be

when they his Worship and the Crown Solicitor, hero on their trial flights Pacific In the next few

(b) The Gloucestershire Regiment, to commemorate an occasion when and rear at the same time.

they fought enemies in front and

fully

(d) The "Common Pendant" was teats, as they A combination of the English and arrive Dutch fings in the seventeenth cen- across the tury. It was adopted during the weeks. (c) A Major-General is really a

Dutch Alliance under William and The Sergeant-Major-General.

Mary. As symbol of concord it (d) Sedgemoor, 1865. The pitch-was hoisted when ships companies

that purpose to-day In the Navy.

e battles of 1745-40 were all fought were at prayers. It is still used for

and in Scotland).

(e) The fousehold Cavalry, where the rank is called "Corporul of

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(a) Oliver Cromwell.

(b) Stonewall Jackson.

Gold-

(e) Palmerston,

(h) Mr. Peachum in The Beggar's, Horse."

Opera.

(f) (1) Grenadiers. (2)

(i) Peiruchio in The Taming of stream. (3) Boots Gunnis,

the Shrew,

(c) Aromotion which confers

(1) The Duke of Plaza-Toro, in higher velle in the Army but does The Gondoliera.

not alter the recipient's rank in his (k) Don Giovannl In Mozart's own regiment,

(d) Diaracll.

(e) Beethoven, referring to

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(1) Jezebel,

(x) Helhe::

Scottish.

(2)

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... (1) · (1) Gist (lighland),

(1) King Loar....

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