General Knowledge Questions OUR weekly prize of one guinea for

the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss M. Phillips, Grantley, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, for the following :- Questions on Wine 1. " And the wine that tasted of tar ? "

2. " Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's canary wine ? "

3. " Awake my little ones, and fill the cup, Before Life's Liquor in the Cup be dry."

4. " How much better is thy love than wine I 5. " Till the live-long day-light fail Then to the spicy nut-brown ale."

6. " Let him drink port, the English statesman cried, He drank the poison, and his spirit died."

7. . . . then shall our names,

Familiar in their mouths as household words

. . . . • •

Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered."

8. " 0 sweet's the cup that circles then To those we've left behind us."

9. " Spoke in a huff by a poor monk, God wot, Tasting the air this spicy night, which turns The unaccustomed head like Chianti wine."

10. " And water is on the Bishop's board, and the High Thinker's shrine,

But I don't care where the water goes, if it doesn't get into the wine."

11. " Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking, joys did first ordain ; Bacchus blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure."

12. "The cup went through among the rest, who drained it

merrily." 13. " Wine which Music is,- Music and wine are one.-"

Answers will be found on page viii.