12 OCTOBER 1929, Page 30

General Knowledge Questions

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the hest thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. Johri Hardy, Casilla No. 7, Santiago, Chile, for the following :—

What well-known writings commence with the following words :--

1. In the beginning . .

2. For the fatherland of the English race we must look far away from England itself.

3. " They order," said I, " this matter better in France." 4. The meet was at " The Cook and Pye " . . . • 5:- Wa.haVe undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great . • • 6. ,".A-clear fire, a clean hearth, and the . . ."

7. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary- for one .people to dissolve . .-

8. My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in .

9. " You are well overtaken, gentlemen, a good , to you both ; I have stretched :my legs up Tottenham- Hill . .

10. Call me Ishmael. .

11. I was just going to say, when I was interrapted, that one of the many -ways of classifying minds is . . .

12. If .music -be the food of love, play on, .

13. Blessed be Cod, at the end of the last year I was in very good health . . .

Answeri-will be found on page 511.