GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

By D. J. T. LUSK IF nine out of fifty-four Powers confer Three times in each Capital City, In how many ways can a deadlock occur If they sit on a Standing Committee ?

Who is or are Les Cagoullards, Miss Bapsy Pavry, Klee, Bernard Shaw and Thomas Farr, The Mayor of Mandalay ?

Heave to, fetch a compass, while splicing a brace Knit three, drop a perl to a swine Keep fit on tomatoes by lifting your face, And eat Hay when you're wanting to dine.

How many Batmans make an Oke, How many Funts a Pood ?

If a Peck of Pepper makes you choke, What Perches make a Rood ?

Compare at half time all the unfinished scores Of Schubert, Shostakovitch, Brahms ; And explain how a crooner can open his mouth Without any visible qualms.

Determine to the nearest ell The rope that you must bring I3efore a hot jazz leader Can be induced to Swing.

You may write what you please about any disease, Provided it ends in an " -itis."

Tell in dismal spondees for the Senegalese What their plight is where right is what might is.

Debunk with zest the smartly dressed, The rabid herbalist, That perfect pest a memory test, The cruciverbalist.

Explain with a graph in invisible ink Low temperature carbonisation.

Do empirical schools of economists think There's a reason for Rationalisation ?

For drivers and pedestrians (The speeding and the sped) Compute the ratio between The quick ones and the dead.

How much is a Scruple, a Hogshead of Mead, A Puncheon of Brandy or Gin, A Pocket of Hops and a Fodder of Lead, A Catty, Chang, Cor, Kilderkin ?

Give anglice " Star's Drama in Sensational Ordeals."

Has a Gaggle of Geese got more to say Than a Presbytery of Seals ?

When Arsenal play with the Villa away, Could the wisdom of Solomon choose Whether Queen of the South would beat Hamilton A., Or West Bromwich Albion lose ?

What are Waqfs, waffles, Wahhibites, Incunables and Ides ?

When or where are Zeberzed, Yom Kippur, Palais Glides ?

Give Accusative case of the Aryan race (But decline to compare it in Yiddish), The future of Sago, the past of a Dago, The principal parts of a fish.

Are bowling seen at Bethnal Green, Men minding peas at Kew, The happy mean at Aberdeen, Field games at Waterloo ?

You may trespass apace on our valuable space To tell us the Truth about Life.

Give the world's record pace in the armaments race ; Is a Thane a Recorder of Fife ?

Give cost in L.s.d. to those With politics who flirt, If every time they turn their coat They have to dye their shirt.

[A prize of £2 2s. is offered for the best reply to this contri- bution, in not more than 72 lines of verse or 70o words of prose. Entries must be delivered not later than Tuesday, December 28th.—En. The Spectator.]