17 JANUARY 1931, Page 27

General Knowledge Questions

Oca weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. F. G. L. Lucas, Morestead Grange, Winchester, for the following :- Questions upon Familiar Terms

Explain the following :— 1. A grass-widow. .

2. An idiot.

3. A Baron of Beef.

4. The Grand Climacteric.

5. Turnpike gate.

6. A Hack (or Hackney).

7. Cricket.

8. Knickerbockers,

9. Costermonger.

10. Paraphernalia. 11. Dexterous, 12. Sinister.

13. Jerusalem Artichoke.

Answers will be found on

Page 94.