17 AUGUST 1929, Page 29

General Knowledge Questions

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to. J. A. Sainsbury, Shire- newton, Chepstow, Mon., for the following :- Questions on Roses Who wrote the following quotations I. " I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Caesar bled."

2. " Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose."

3. " Rose-leaves when the rose is fled Are heaped for the beloved's bed."

4. " The wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch."

5. " There is wind where the rose was."

6. " Fresh-blown roses washt in dew."

7. " There's a reid rose lies on the Buik o' the Word afore ye."

8. " A fresh-blown musk rose ; 'twas the first that throw Its sweets upon the summer."

9. " Alack, there he roses and roses, John " 10. " The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair."

11. " The stone-grey roses by the desert's rim Are soft edged shadows on the moonlit sand."

12. " Ali you may flout and turn up your faces, Roses you are not so fair after all."

13. " . . The rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose."

Answers will be found on page 2C0.