General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. G. Salter, 66 Lad- broke Road, Holland Park, W. 11, for the following
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Questions on Jane Austen
1. What were the Christian names of (a) Mr. Elton ; (b) Mr. Darcy ; (c) the housemaid at Randalls ? (each is only mentioned once).
2. What were the occupations followed by Mrs. Stokes, Mrs. Hill, Chapman, Dawson, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Jenkinson, Mr. Wentworth of Monkford, Frederick Tilney, and the two brothers who came between Fanny and Susan Price ?
3. Give the context of the following references to food :—(a) I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies ; (b) He has been ill ever since he did not eat any of the pheasant to-day. Ile fancied it tough ; (c) No, he should not eat. He was not hungry, it would only make him hotter ; (d) She could not . . . extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.
4. Who do you associate with the Thrush, Laurentina's Skeleton, Thornton Lacey, Gracechurch Street, Combo Magna, Astley's, "the wild beasts at Exeter Exchange " ?
5. At what two seaside places did two heroines meet with accidents ? •
6. Give the names of eight children mentioned, and three instances of spoiling them. Who made a little boy happy by dancing with him ?
7. Who wore the following ? (a) "as elegant as pearls could make her " ; (b) "your gown seems very pretty, I like these glossy spots " ; (c) "why should not I wear pink ribbons ? " ; (d) "a great slit in my worked muslin gown " ; (e) "do not you think these silk gloves wear very well ? " ; (f) "his hat sat so well, and the isummerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important." 8. What places are referred to : (a) is "never dusty, and now it is perfectly dry " ; (b) "I shall never be quite happy till I have boon all round the park " ; (c) "Now we shall have no snore rough road . . . here begins the village " ; (d) "that noblo hill, whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object. . . ."
9. Who took Emma in to supper at the Crown ball ?
10. What two heroines were addicted to • Cowper, and to trees ? 11. What two ladies referred two well-known quotations to which third lady ?
.12. Who came in unexpectedly on a family tea party and played vstsgt-tin ? Who did carpet work and was taught speculation ? What two heroines played the harp ? 13. Who fought a duel and who "sighed over the fancied necessity " of it Answers will be found on page 722.
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