General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. J. Stothers, J.P., Benmore, Churchill, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, for the following :—

Questions on Laughter

I. In what council was laughter threatened with excommunica- tion

2. Who said "The landlord's laugh was ready chorus " ?

3. Who was rebuked for laughing ?

4. Where are the words "With his eyes in flood with laughter" found 5. Who wrote :— "Sport that wrinkled Care derides,

And Laughter holding both his sides"?

C. What country once had a laughing executioner ?

7. Who wrote

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone"?

Who had these words engraven on his tombstone ?

8. Who wrote and to whom did he write : "To my mind there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter " ?

9. Who said "By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at " ?

10. Who said A house of laughter makes a house of woo"?

11. Who is the author, and in what poem are the following words found ?

"Low gurgling laughter as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South."

12. Where is the laughter of a fool compared to thorns crackling under a pot ? 13. In what work are the following words found : "How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole mass"

Answers will be found on page 259.