CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS

By six Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge 1. Where were the following buried: a. Robert of Normandy.

b. Eleanor of Castille.

c. James 11.

d. Karl Marx.

e. A. E. Housman.

2. Where in the English countryside wosild you come across the following: a. New Zealand.

b. Bengal.

c. Petty France.

d. Upper and Lower Canada.

c. America.

f. Holland.

g. Jamaica. h: Gold Coast.

3. What famous composer was: a. Once a butcher's boy.

b. Once an otlicer in the Russian Navy.

c. A chemistry professor.

d. Once an orange-planter in Florida.

e. Molotov's uncle.

4. What common nouns have been given to the English language by the following places: a. Mosul.

b. Milan.

c. Corinth.

d. Jerez.

e. Ragusa.

f. Kocs.

g. Geneva.

h. Worstead.

i. Damascus.

j. Lille.

5. What familiar works of reference are usually known by the following abbreviated titles: a. Cruder'.

b. Hobson-Jobson.

c. Hastings.

d. Emily Post.

e. Ruff's Guide.

f. G.E.C.

g. The Imperial Calendar.

h. Dod.

i. Bosworth and Toiler. ' j. Almanach de Gotha.

6. Which, if any, of the following are names for things that can be eaten, and what are they: a. An Aberdeen cutlet.

b. A yellow doughnut.

c. A zizz pudding.

d. Soojey moojey.

e. Cheesy-hammy-eggy-topsides.

f. Electronic raspberries.

g. Country capttin.

h. Bombay duck.

i. A kit-cat.

j. A side-bay cocktail.

7. What are the more usual names for the following common substances: a. Dephlogisticated marine acid air.

b. Fixed air.

c. Calx vire.

d. Oleum vitriol' dulce.

e. Aqua ardens.

8. Who were the creators of the following detectives of fiction: a. Richard Hannay.

b. Inspector Hanaud.

c. Max Carrados.

d. Phillip Marlowe.

e. Philo Vance.

f. Nick Charles.

g. M. Lecoq.

h. Joshua Clunk.

i. Inspector John Appleby.

j. Montague Egg.

9. Of what books are these the first words: a. My true name is so well known in the records or registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey. . . .

b. The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, have been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end.

c. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

d. Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him.

e. Mr. Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the. Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs's room overlooking the garden quad at Scone College.

10. Who was or were: a. A forty-niner.

b. The three men in a tub.

c. The nine tailors.

d. The four just men.

e. The filthy thirteen.

11. How are the following more usually known to the public: a. Cicily Fairfield.

b. Alice Marks.

c. Timothy Sparks.

d. Herr Teufelsdrockh.

e. Mary Westmacott.

f. Phillip Heseltine.

g. Joseph G. Korzcniowski.

h. George William Russell.

i. Patrick Henley-Kay.

j. Hilda Munnings.

12. In what operas are the following found: a. A gingerbread witch.

b. A rocking-horse.

c. A birdcage.

d. A game of cards in hell.

e. A silver rose.

13. Give the customary names of the following symbols:

a. & b. t c. t

e. §

f. q

g, 1'

h. y

21. 14. What are or were: a. Faraday's ice pail.

b. Archimedes' screw.

c. Langerman's islets.

d. Malpighi's body.

e. Wheatstone's bridge.

15. What are the following: a. Shepheard's Short Range Group.

b. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.

c. The Lady Margaret Boat Club.

d. The Jabo Club.

e. The Macaroni Club.

16. Who: a. Had a luminous nose.

b. Elevated photography to the highest of the arts.

c. Was said to have died of a surfeit of Dr. James's powder.

d. Carries a linstock and partisan.

e. Said, " We are all Socialists nowadays."

f. Were described as " ye big-wigged, ye gloriously feeding Doctors."

g. Was shot "pour encourager les autres."

h. Said, " In England there are a hundred different religions and only one sauce."

L Had a precious leg.

j. Were borne down in a torrent of gin and beer.

17. Where in England are the following places: a. Six Mile Bottom.

b. Shellow Bowells.

c. Preston Gubbalds.

d. Helion Bumpstead.

e. Ryme Intrinsica.

Answers will be published in next week's Spectator.