General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best set of questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. M. Bancroft, 20 Maltese Road, Chelmsford, for the following:
Questions on Heroes, Emperors and Kings
1. Who was the mythical hero whose memory was perpetuated in the name given to tho little open carriage used by our fore- fathers in pre-motor days ?
2. To whom did the Greeks attribute the introduction of letters into Europe ?
3. What hero was dressed by his mother as a girl in order to prevent him from becoming a warrior ? 4. To what emperor is it due that tho alternation of 31 and 30 'days in the months was dislocated ?
5. Of what emperor have we monument without epitaph, while his horse has both ? . . .
0. Who was the author of the following expression of reverence for law : " It befits the majesty of the Monarch to declare that he himself is bound by the laws ?
7. What King for secrecy's sake was buried in the bed of a river ?
8. What warrior monarch in old age kept tablets under his pillow, and strove to master writing with fingers grown too stiff to gain the art ? 9. Who is said to have been-the inventor of algebra ?
10. For the amusement of what French King. is the early• painting of playing cards recorded ?
11. What English King frequently " went to Jericho " ?
12. What suggested to "Napoleon the idea of taking the bee as his symbol 1
Answers will be found on page 558. - -
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