General Knowledge Questions

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt, 8 Wyndham Crescent, N. 19, for the following :-

Questions on Hand and Glove

1. By whom has the handshake been abolished ?

2. Distinguish between .(a) Chirognomy, (b) Chirosophy, (c) Chiromancy.

3. Who asserted " The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world " ?

4. When was a blind man deceived by the touch of hands ?

5. Who had " A leathern hand . . . a freestone-coloured hand " ?

6. Who had " A lank, skeleton hand . . . a clammy hand • . as ghostly to the sight as to the touch "

7. What is a " Hand of Glory " ?

8. Who originated the expression " An iron hand in a velvet glove "

9. When did a soldier offer his glove to God ?

10. Where were the oldest gloves found ?

11. Which are the oldest English gloves ?

12. Who wrote " The Glove," and by what earlier poem was

it suggested 13. Who " Carved at the meal With gloves of steel "

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