31 DECEMBER 1954, Page 10

CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS

Below are printed the answers to the Christmas Questions published in the Spectator of December 24.

1. a. C. R. Attlee. b. Noel Coward. c. P. G. Wodehousc. d. Vyvyan Holland. e. Sir Frederick Ponsonby (first Lord Sysonby). f. Thomas Jones, CH. g. Wilson Harris. h. Ivor Brown. i. Eleanor Roosevelt. j. Lord Norwich (Duff Cooper)., 2. a. They all describe lines. b. They have each won the FA Cup. once. c. They' Came into England all in one year.' d. None of them. is a fish. e. All mine-workers. f. All Etonians. g. All words derived from Arabic. h. All Harrovians. I. All shipyard workers. j. All members of St. John's College, Cambridge. k. All gave their names to plants. I. All members of Christ Church, Oxford. m. All spent a period in prison or in captivity.

3. a. A bird. b. A butterfly. c. A fish. d. A moth. e. A bird. f. An insect. g. A moth. h. A moth. i. An insect. j. A crusta- cean. k. An insect. 1. An insectivore.

• 4. a. Apple. b. Pear. c. Pear. d. Apple. c. Cherry. f. Plum.

5. a. Charlotte Bronte. b. Maxim Gorky. c. Fanny Burney. d. Glyn Daniel. e. George Sand. f. C. Day Lewis. g. Joseph Conrad. h. H. E. Bates. i. Saki. j. George. Orwell. k. Mark Twain.

6. c, I, k, 1, m, n, r are fictitious.

7. a. Never Say Die. b. Surrey. c. It was not awarded (Dr. Albert Schweitzer delivered the customary lecture in November as recipient of the Peace Prize for 1952). d. J. Drobny. e. Never Say Die. f. St. John's College, Cambridge. g. New York Giants. h. Iris Murdoch with Under the Net. i. Mr. A. G. Lee. j. Sir Mortimer Wheeler.

8. a. Billiards played on a table without pockets. b. Brandy.

c. Musical instrument. d. Musical pitch a fraction below con- temporary concert pitch. e. Card game. f. Absence without permission.

9. a. St. Adelard. b. St. Aldhelm. c. St. John the Evangelist.

d. St. Ursula. e. St. Vincent. f. St. Wulfstan.

10. a. Sir Harold Spencer Jones. b. Sir Ian Jacob. c, d. Sir Kenneth Clark. e. Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury Jones. f. Sir William Haley. g. Lloyd George (the book is by Frank Owen). h. The sixty-one year old New Yorker who crossed alone from Peru to Pago Pago in 115 days on the raft 'The Seven Little Sisters.'

i. The new Prime Minister of South Africa. j. Henry Meikle.

11. a. Bentham. b. Berkeley. c. Aristotle. d. Hume.

12. a. The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

b. The Piggy-wig in The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear.