General Knowledge Questions
OtTR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Douglas, Tower House, Crawley Down, Sussex, for the following :— Questions on Food in History and Literature I. To what vegetable did the Egyptians pay divine honours ?
2. What savoury herb did the Romans plant upon their Great Wall in England ? 3. What fruit tree, familiar in London, did Horace sing the praises of ?
4. If you cook truffles in butter in Perigord, what wine should you drink with them ?
5. What particular portion of meat did the Ettrick Shepherd say yielded fine miscellaneous feeding ? 6. What meat was it that Dr. Johnson and Wilkes waxed enthu- siastic over at Dilly's in Poultry ? 7. What food and himself did Charles Lamb render immortal in one essay ?
8. What species of eel was guilty of regicide ? 9. Why, according to legend, do we eat geese at Michaelmas? 10. What useful spice did the Dutch monopolize for a very long time ?
11. What bird was "served up in its pride" in The Ingoldsby Legends . . 12. Whose chef was it Who first made mayonnaise with oil instead of butter ?
13. What fruit, beloved of doctors, once led a lady sadly astray ?
Answers will be found on page 38*.
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