General Knowledge Questions
Om: weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Edith S. Ball, Easthopc Rectory, Much Wenlock, for the following :— Questions on Super-Women
1. Who gave her future husband a bouquet, and he, not having a convenient button-hole, cut a slit in his uniform and placed it there ?
2. Who 'listed men for the Marquis of Handy's Regiment by giving them a kiss ?
3. To whom did a Prince of Wales send a miniature of himself accompanied by a. paper heart ?
4. Who held the head of a condemned man in her hands and laid it in position upon the block ?
5. Who was the first to wear cut diamonds in a girdle ?
6. To what woman was confided the care of the Vatican during the absence of the Pope ?
7. Who walked before the Cross in procession to St. Paul's, clad only in a kirtle and carrying a lighted taper ?
8. Who was married with a red enamelled wedding-ring?
9. Who at a breakfast party ordered the King to make coffee ?
10. Who could fish for compliments in French, Italian and Spanish ?
11. Who followed the Royal Hunt in a dainty bijou phaeton drawn by white ponies!
12. Whose usual stake at dice was from £1,000 to £1,500?
13. Who was struck with paralysis while playing the part of " Rosalind" ?
Answer; will be found on page vi
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