Answers to Holiday Questions

Below are printed the answers to the questions which appeared last week.

1. a. The United Kingdom does not include the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. b. Cobbles are rounded, setts rectangular. c. Dumbarton is the town, Dunbarton the county. d. Practice is the noun, practise the verb. e. Portuguese West Africa also includes Portuguese Guinea.

2. a. Yorkshire and Tipperary. b. Epistemology. c. In Gaelic, the Land of Eternal Youth. d. Unit of magnetic induction. e. One of the six divisions of the Isle of Man.

3. a. 2,000 cubits : about 1,500 yards. b. Point hour hand to sun : south is midway between it and 12 o'clock (GMT). c. Very famous— as Tenzing. d. Near Sidmouth in Devon. e. In order not to waste some printed cards that had belonged to his uncle, Jean.

4. a. Publishers. b. Volcanoes. c. Types of railway locomotive, classified by wheel arrangements. d. Tributaries of the Danube. e. Administrative counties.

5. a. In the' Isle of Jura. b. Marble Arch. c. Eisenach, Thuringia.

d. Paraguay. e. Melrose Abbey.

6. a. Saki b. James Bridie. c. Colette. d. Ouida. e. Fougasse.

7. a. Paddington. b. Euston. c. Marylebone. d. Waterloo. e: St. Pancras.

8. a. William Hazlitt, of S. T. Coleridge. b. Sir Walter Scott, of Robert Burns. c. Disraeli, of Gladstone. d. Macaulay, of Samuel Johnson. e. D. H. Lawrence, of James Joyce.

9. a. Lahore. b. 50-50. c. Liverpool. d. Horizontal scale on graph. e. Iceland.

10. a. Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.

b. Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux.

c. Educationally subnormal. d. Top edge gilt. e. British Boxing Board of Control.

11. a. Ends and Means, by Aldous Huxley. b. Erewhon, by Samuel Butler. c. Candide, by Voltaire. d. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. by Thomas Hardy. e. Science for the Citizen, by Lancelot Hogben.

12. a. Islands of the Azores. b. Not entitled to a vote. c. Capitals of Soviet republics. d. Railway stations in Nottingham. e. Committed suicide.

13. a. Logan Pearsall Smith. b. Fourth Earl of Chesterfield. c. Samuel Johnson. d. The Water Rat in The Wind in the Willows. by Kenneth Grahame e. Francois Villon.

14 a. The cheetah. b. Monegasque. c. German translation of Jabberwocky. ('The slithy loves did gyre and gimble in the wa he.) By Hermann von Schwindel (probably Lewis Carroll himself). d. They are given in the correct order.

15. All except vii.