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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course You Know, But Are

HERE is your weekly quiz

-25 simple little ques- tions which perhaps you should know and really think you do know--but on second thoughts are not quite so sure about!

In all oxcept three of them the correct answer is set be- fore your eyes-with, I admit, somo possible, impossible, pro- bable and improbable other answers. You've got to be careful of only one thing-not to select the 'wrong 'un.. If you do, you lose two points. -

Well, two points for each cor- rect answer and anything less than a 80 total puts you in the beginners' class.

1. Probably you'll deny that you ought to know this--still, you'll get a great kick out of being able to tell all your friends who didn't go to school that damaskeening is the art of:-

Performing difficult man- oeuvres on skin; putting the pattern

damask

on

table-tablecloths;

making

up for the theatre; Inlaying metal; ballet dancing.

2. Seeing that you've watched the wife pacing the floor while he or she has been cutting them how many teeth does a baby have:

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10; 4; 16; 20; 32; far too many.

.. you

3. These high sens you hear people talking about. know, "I went sailing the high sens, etc."; well, strictly speak- ing, the high seas are:-

Mountainous waves; all the sens of the world; the entire sea-space beyond a three-mile limit of the shore;

above land level; polluted oceans.

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4. Just score out the one in this list who wasn't one of The Big Three at the Versailles Peace Conference:-

Georges Clemenceau; Da- vid Lloyd George; Woodrow Wilson; Winston Churchill.

5. Tut, tut, if you don't know, probably you are the only one in the world who doesn't know that the Aztec Indians were natives of:-

Bolivia; Argentina; Par- aguay; Mexico; Peru; Ari. ZONEL

.6. Where is the world's largest cathedral-come on, you oughta know that! Yes, you're right, it's in:—

Rheims; Liverpool; Lon dón: Milan; Paris; Mel- bourne; Rome,

---7.-You-good-at-mental-arith metle? How good? Can you do this in a flush-well, say two flashes:-

8 x 6 x 10 plus 20 x 0 x -100 x 2 equals?

8. If you get fed up with flat life and dig yourself out a nico rock cave to dwell in you friends refer to you as n:-- mustn't get annoyed if your

Rectuse; troglodyte; no- vitiate; geologist.

9. What would YOU do with a snood? Would you:-

Wear it in your hair; feel like kicking him; enter it in a poodle show; have li for lunch; or would you say there la no such thing. 10. Sometimes д

barrister, especially when he's a big shot and there's a lot of money in the case, asks his clierit for an extra fee which is called a

Refreshment; refresh; refresherment; refresher; recherche; rehabilitation.

11. Join the navy and become a lieutenant and then when you feel like boasting you can tell your friends that you hold a naval rank equivalent to an

army:-

Sergeant-major; colonel; leutenant-colonel; major; captain; quarter-master- sergeant; generalissimo.

12. The Exodus Book of the Bible is specially notable bo- cause it:

Is the first book in the. Old Testament; the last; contains the Sermon on the Mount; contains the Ten Commandments; is the

shortest Book; the longest.

13. A man doesn't often get a chance to say last words, and when he does they become justi- fiably famous-like Hamlet's laat words, which were: .

Out vile spot!; My king- dom for a horsel; five us a kiss, Hardy; The est is allence; Undo this cursed· button; Damned be he who first cries "Hold enough"; Pickle my bones in alcohol, i 14. The Union Jack ought to be pretty familiar to you and you doubtless know that there are some blue triangles in it- yes, but how many of those blue triangles are there?

Two; four; six; elght;

ten,

15. You've all heard of acme and if you haven't it's not my fault. Acme is:--

A skin disease; a moun- tain; the highest point; a kind of carriage; a famous juggler.

16. I've played this card game bezique. I'm not ashamed to noticed about it was:- say, and one peculiar feature I

You play with cigarette carde; you only need an

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1939.

But Are You Sure? WOULD YOU PANIC?

eighth of a pack; each -player requires à pack; you are allowed to glance over your opponent's shoulder;

··· all cards are of equal value.

phobla and that-phobia and some from photophobla.. Those with photophobia can't stand: H

The light; family picture albums; photographers; cameras; moving pictures; opticians,

17. Some people are unlucky enough to suffer from carbuncles and some people are lucky enough to own them. The kind of carbuncles people are luckyous and have no enough to own are:

Rare flowers; almost ex- tinct animals; birds of gor geous plumage; gems; fa- bulously lucky charms; rich, decrepit uncles. 18. It is possible—although quite improbable, mark you that someday someone will give

you a. Percheron, in which case my advice would be to:-

Put it in your garden fish pool; see that it doesn't

kick you; give it to the wire to wear; buy a nice kennel for it; read it; lend it to the Art Gallery,

"Are the five great divisions of 10. "Zones," said the teacher,

the

earth bounded by circles parallel to the equator, and the zone which the Arctic Circle bounds is the:~~~-~

Torrid; south temperate; south frigid; north tem- perate; benzone.

20. Different people suffer from all sorts of phobias-this-

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BRIDGE PROBLEM

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Hearls are trumps, South leads and North-South have to win ten of the twelve tricks.

Solutions by first post Wednesday

Problem. to Bridge

"Hongkong Telegraph" Wyndham Street,

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21. You might be unscrupul- scruples but even if you have only one scru- plo at least you have:- Telegraph", Wyndham Street.

Half a ton; six ounces; half a gramme; 20 grains; one drachm.

back a few years you should be 22. By casting your mind able to remember what your his tory teacher told you and pick the king who died in exile:-

out

TOW:good are you' in an emer-

gency? Are you the sort of person who would keep calm and act quickly, or would you lose

your head and fly into a panic?

It la important that you should know the answer to there, questions because, sooner or later, you aro sure to find yourself in some predica ment demanding great presence of mind. Perhaps the safety or even the life, of someone near and dear to you will depend on your ability to think and act quickly.

Resourcefulness

reaction

comes from

to certain circumstances.

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Psychologist's

Questionnaire

(c) The unknown?

(d) Loud noises? 10. A number of people have re- counted that when actually, faced danger or approaching with great death (through accident or Illness) they've felt quite calm. Have you ever experienced this sensation?

17. If anybody were to tell you something in a great hurry and then rush away, would you-

ac-

variety of mental and physical at- tributes, not always discernible · In

(a) Only partially remember what the humdrum routine of everyday | had been enld?. life. Do you possess them?

(b) Bucome flustered and forget fully, and you will find out. It in

Answer this questionnaire truth-everything?

(c) Remember their words designed to test your character and

curately?

18. Nobody likes a visit to the den- if your score la high you can have tist, we know. When he hurts do the

greatest confidence

(a) Tell him Immediately? capacity to deal with any altuation

(b) Endure the pain, believing that. which may arise. If, on the other

It la better to get it finished quickly?: hand, your score is low, you will be where the weak-

10. Do you believe that if you are able to discover ness lies. Forewarned is forearmed: sufficiently determined to have 23. Last time. I saw the flag correct it now-while there is time. thing you will get It of Poland it was:---

Parental Influences

Richard III; James 1; William III; James II; Ed

ward VI.

Red, white and blue; blue and white; red and white; red, yellow and black,

24. You know that photo- graphers fix their negatives in hypo, don't you? Well, hypo is only an abbreviation-what's its full name:

Hypoquinone; hypochlo ride; hyposensitive; hypo- sulphate of soda; hypo- crite; hypodermic.

25. Excelsior, we learned at school, meant:

On the up and up; higher; faster; upwards; brave; success; here come the copal

(Answers on page 3)

Deanna Durbin

In Love

HOLLYWOOD flim executives were disturbed recently by reports that Deanna Durbin, 17-year-old singing stor, hos fallen in love.

According to her friends, she may marry soon, and her fiance, they declare, is 23-year-old Vaughan Paul, assistant director of Universal Studios, described by many as "the man who gave Deanna the Inspira- tion the needed in emotional scenes."

A Lay Sermon

JEVER was it more Important for the Christian to remember that God's greatest gift to the world is continuous. "God loved that He gave" is only half e Gospel mes- sage. The tense of the other half is present: "God so loves that He

'I am the bread of life." John, vi. 35.

gives."

That is the essence of the dis- course in which Jesus spoke of Himself as "the true bread from heaven." and it is inseparable from His assurance that He will be with us unto the end. The gift of God, through Christ, is

eternal life. But life requires nourishment, and the gift of God, through Christ, is the bread of lite.

Bread is everyday food, and the secret of living victoriously in ilmes like these is the fact that Jesus Himself is our "daily bread." We should bear this in mind when using the prayer He taught us, noting especially that the petition for dally bread follows Immediately after the words "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." The two things-go-to- gether, for God's will can only be done by God's people in the strength which, comes from Him auew every morning."

The Sight of Blood

In your

you

1. Have you any knowledge--even elementary-of first aid

2. Were you ever a member of the Boy Scouts or Girl Guides Associa

tions?

3. Does the sight of blood give as temporarily to you such nausea incapacitate you?

4. Have you ever looked after any- one who was 1117

5. What are your immediate reac tions to a street accident? Do you-

(a) Walk away?

(b) Go and look out of curiosity? any use either in respect of calling (c) Try to see if you can be of

help or attending to those hurt?

6. II

you were a witness to an accident, and remembered all the de- tails, would you consider it your duty to approach the authorities con- cerned even if the information had not been asked for?

7. If you were in a room with someone whose clothes accidentally caught fire, would you

(0) Throw water on them? (b) Tell them to stand sill while you tried to take of burning clothes? (c) Put them on the floor and roll them in a rug or blanket? 8. Have you fainted

more than

three times in your life?

9. Do you take much exercise in the form of sport, walking, garden- ing, housework, or dancing? Reaction to Bad. News

10. If you receive bad news or a shock do you—

(a) Feel light-headed and giddy for a few seconds, but manage to overcome it?

(b)

Become paralysed in thought| for several minutes?

11 When anyone is recounting an experience or telling a jolte would you say that you grasp the point as quickly as if not quicker than.... anyone else?

(b). Belleve that anticipation is always worse than realisation?

12. On going to a place for the first time can you afterwards give n fairly accurate description of that placet

13. Are your first Impressions of strangers generally correct?

14. Would you describe yourself as possessing an exceptionally vivid im- agination?

or

15. Have you any irrational fears

(n) Mice, spiders, snakes? (b) The dark?

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

Nos. 108-109

Problem No. 108

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20. Would you describe either or both of your parents as

practical people, full of sound common sense. 21. Would you say that, as far as your childhood was concerned, they were fairly strict disciplinarians?

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22. Have you held down a job for

than twelve months? 23. If, when crossing the road, 1ialfic suddenly converged on you would you

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(n) Attempt to run back? (b) Try to get across? (c) Stand still?

24. Do you ever experience any ates or those younger than yourself difficulty in making your subordin

obey you?

25. Would you say that you dis- in bearing pain or play fortitude enduring physical discomfort?

20. When you know that you uro about to undergo some unpleasant experience, do you

(a) Work yourself up into a ter- rible state?

(b) Believe that anticipation is always worse than realleation?

27. Supposing someone offered you a fob would you choose one with..... (a) A moderate salary with no responsibility?

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(b) A good salary and heavy rea ponalbility?

28. When you have to make n'de cision do you make

(a) Follow the advice of others?

Decide entirely for yourselt? 20. Are you always prepared to take the consequences of your own actionat

30. If a friend, entirely unaware, were to bring someone to your house. whom you disliked extremely, would you

(n) Show your surprise? -

(b) Control your annoyance for the moment, but explain the situa tion later to your friend?

(c) Not allow your feelings to show at allt 'How

Score

In questions 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 10, 10, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 20 every time you have said "Yes" score Ave points.

In questions 3, 0, 14, and 24, every time you have said "No" score_five points.

In question 5, section C. If you have "sald "Yes" score five points.

In question 7, section C, If you have said "Yes" score Alvo points.

In question`15; sections Á, B, C,. and D, if you have said "no" score

Ir.

question 10, section A, If you have said "Yes" score ave points.

In question 17, section C, if you have said "Yes" score five paints.

In question 18, section B,. It you have

Bold "Yea" score dve points. In question 23, section C, If you have said "Yes" score five point!! In question 20, section B, if

you have said “Yes” score five points,

In question 27, section B, if you have anld "Yes" score five points.

In question 28, section B, il you have said "Yes," score ten points.

In question 30, section C, it you have said "Yes" scorn ten points.

The highest possible score is 163 points.

100-103 points---You can bo thoroughly rolled upon in an emer- geney. You will keep calm and cool and will be able to deal with the situation. Also, as far as self-con- trol, courage, and presence of mind

concerned, you

certainly above the average. You can have the greatest confidence in yourself.

ore

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50-100 points-In most emergen- cles you would come up to scratch, Your nervous reactions are normal and you are well balanced. It

might

be quite a good thing to take a course of Arst ald, This would give you added confidence in your capacity to deal with awkward situations.

Under 50 points--The less said the better. You must take yourself in EBDFQGHDZIY hand and try to gals some know- YZQABCZD'Y YGIJQKIJY CKLLKEAMQ NJ- | ledge of what to do In emergencies. EZAYJ OKPQY ZBJ MZESKPH,

Also try to cultivate more self-con- GQOJBTKYJ PGQ APAYZMMD fidence. You are too different, and GNYEABJ.

would mistrust your own judgments.

Incomplete Division

From the figures given, try 'com- pleting this problem in division: 325) 2 5 * (1 * *

Letter Juggling

Try forming two different 8-lelter words from the 6 letters given be- low. Use all 6 letters in each word:

IOENGB

How Many ̈Tickels?"

If there are 25 stations on a rull- road, how many different tickets aro required to connect every station with every other station?

A Few "DATES" For Ton to Match The first on this list has been checked. Try matching the others In like manner:

plunder Dffice Deskar

nandale

3

INTINIGELD

Xudat

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5

Eduprednsu

to 2827

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14 Pieces

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(Answers Appear on Page 3)

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