28 OCTOBER 1949, Page 15

General Knowledge For expert performance, let me praise Top of

the Form, in which two teams of schoolboys and schoolgirls round and about the country play General Post with general knowledge. Half the time I find these children woefully lacking in the most elementary education, and for the other half they appear to me precocious little monsters, which, I suppose, is a very satisfactory balance. But our greatest pleasure here, I suspect, is m the expertise and speed and friendli- ness of the two question-masters, Messrs. Lionel Gamlin and Robert MacDermot, who somehow contrive to sound neither pedagogic nor condescending.