General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt, 8-6 Wyndham Crescent, N. 19, for the following :— Questions on Holiday Resorts I. Who were "dull at Worthing one summer, duller at Brighton another, dullest at Eastbourne a third " ?
2. Which author was born at Lowestoft, and wrote a panegyric on the Yarmouth bloater ?
3. What are the actual names of " Knollsea," " Solentsea," and "Cliff Martin " ?
4. At what place did a king "no sooner pop his royal head under the water than a band of music concealed in a neighbouring machine struck up 'God save great George our king ' " ?
5. Who addressed many of his letters from " Skerryvore, Bournemouth" ?
6. Which place has a clock tower that once stood on London Bridge, and part of the London Mercers' Hall as the façade of its Town Hall ?
7. When was a Danish Princess received by the mayor and corporation of Margate ?
8. Who was the alleged founder of Bath, and in what famous novel is the legend related ?
9. What was the name of the lady who met with an accident on the Cobb at Lyme Regis ?
10. Who wrote (a) "A Trip to Scarborough " ; (b) "The Leech of Folkestone " ; (c) "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate " ?
11. Where were Miss Honeyrnan's lodgings ?
12. What did Napoleon think of Torquay ?
13. What does the name " Penzance " mean, and what was its former name ?
Answers will be found on page 204.
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