General Knowledge Questions
- Questions on Dr. Johnson
OUR weekly prize of one guinea forthe best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. George Clazy, 31 Drummond Place, Edinburgh, for the following :-
1. What is the definition of " pension " in Johnson's Dictionary ?
2. What great eighteenth-century convention did the Doctor defy ?
3. When was Johnson mistaken for a Highlander ? 4. What is the name of Johnson's one tragedy ? 5. Who said that in a Johnsonian fable the fishes would talk like whales ? 6: Which is the longest of the Lives of the Poets?
7. Who said, " The poet does not number the streaks of the tulip " ?
8. What reason did Johnson give as the only one that would make any man but a fool write ? 9. Why did Dr_ Johnson once drink whisky ?
10. For what one man did Johnson say he would prepare his conversation ?
11. On what occasion did the Doctor sleep on straw ? 12. What ghost mystery did Dr. Johnson investigate ?
13 When did Dr. Johnson expound the quantity theory of money 7
Answers will be found on page viii.
* * * * A new Competition willbelound-on-page 988.
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