25 JANUARY 1930, Page 30

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Norman Robinson, '" St. Gerrards," Burnside Place, Troon, Ayrshire, for' the fol- lowing :- Questions on Descriptive Geography

What places are known by the following phrases:— 1. City of Dreadful Night.

2. King of Ruins.

3. Brightest Jewel in the British Crown.

4. Modern Athens.

5. Bride of the Sea.

6. Queen of the North.

7. Forbidden City.

8. Hub of the Universe.

9. City of Palaces.

10. White Man's Grave.

11. Poppy-land.

12. Venice of the North.

13. Mother of the World.

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