General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen General Knowledge questions is awarded this week to Mr. W. A. Patterson of " Clonelly," Doddington Road, Lincoln, for the following :
Questions on Mr. Shaw's Plays
1. Name the play and person who says " In Heaven—you live and work instead of playing and pretending."
2. Name the play and person who says " Such bloody nonsense ! "
3. Name the play and person who says " You will find your real faith in the hour of trial."
4. Name the play and person who says " It is enough that there is a beyond."
5. Name the play and person who says " My mother would have taken the skin off my back if I'd over let on to have any other king than Parnell." 6. Name the play and person who says " All great truths begin as blasphemies." 7. Name the play and person who says " Every drunken skipper trusts to providence. But one of the ways of providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks."
8. Name the play and person who says " When you're as old as I am, you'll know that it matters very little how a man dies. What matters is, how he lives."
9. Name the play and person who says " I want children ; and I want to devote myself entirely to my children, and not to their father. The law will not allow me to do that • so I have made up my mind to have neither husband nor children." 10. Name the play and person who says " There's no good and bad : but by Jiminy, gents, there's a rotten game, and there's a great game. ' 11. Name the play and person who describes Hell " You won't find it so bad, sir. Jolly. Like as if you were always drunk without the trouble and expense of drinking." 12. Name the play and person who says " You unfeeling, sinful girl, falling asleep like that, and your father hardly cold in his grave."
13. Name the play and person who says " I am surrounded with women who are most dear to me. But everyone of them has a post sticking up—Trespassers will be Prosecuted."
Answers will be found on page 248.
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