Answers to Holiday Questions

1. a. Tirana. b. Juneau. c. Djakarta. d. There is no official capital. e. Windhoek.

2. a. That slid into my soul. Coleridge. b. And palms before my feet. G. K. Chesterton (from 'The Donkey.') c. The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife! Robert Burns. d. Born under one law, to another bound. Fulke Grevillei Lord Brooke. c. Ranter and Royal, and Bellman as true (this is the original version). John Wood- cock Graves.

3. a. Association Football ground b. Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat—and the dog. c. Parliamentary constituencies.

d. Symphonies by Haydn. e. Roman forts on Hadrian's wall.

4. a. Gateshead. b. Lynton: 18 miles. c. Fishguard Harbour.

d. 49 miles. e. Caribbean.

5. a. Cakes and Ale (W. Somerset Maugham). b. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce). c. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith). 4,. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway).

e. Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad).

6. a. Sancho Panza. b. Adrian IV (the only English Pope).

c. George Orwell. d. German measles. e. Lenin and Trotsky.

7. a. Members of the Kon-Tiki expedition. b. Edgar Wallace's Four Just Men. c. Mountains in the English lake district. d. Presi- dents of the U.S.A. C. All were born in Portsmouth.

8. a. (i) 3, (ii) 4. b. (i) Blue, green, red, (ii) blue-green, magenta; yellow. c. Conscience,. which commands you to 'act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.' d. Voltaire (in French, of course). e. Only Twelfth Night, or What You Will. 9. a. Roald Amundsen. b. Baron Nordenskitild. c. Juan Sebastian del Cano. d. A. C. MacLaren. e. Lemuel Gulliver (the first words spoken to him in Lilliput). 10. a. Sydney Smith : his idea of heaven. b. H. G. Wells: of life. c. Oscar Wilde (in the character of Lord Henry Wotton): of a cigarette. d. Beethoven: his last words. e. Einstein: his first formulation of the principle of relativity. 11. a. All remained bachelors. b. New towns. c. Not members of the United Nations. d. Vitamins (A, B1, C, D2). e. Openings in the game of draughts.

12. a. Spinoza. b. John Dalton. c.-Stendhal. d. Brahms,

e. Chekhov. 13. a. Milton. b. Arnold Bennett. c. Carlyle. d. Samuel Butler. e. Alexander Selkirk (this is the island on which he was marooned). 14. a. Leonardo da Vinci. b. Sir Alfred Gilbert. c. Thomas Arne.

d. William Douglas. e. Anton Karas.

15. a. Sizes of printing types. b. Units of coinage. c. All meal' 'cape' (in the geographical sense). d. All contain spelling mistakes'

e. Nouns of multitude (for moles, hounds, wolves, apes).

16. a. In Lough Gill, Co. Sligo. b. They are the insulin-secreting' glands in the pancreas. c. Near Dusseldorf, West Germany. d. A Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal. 0. It was the capital of Ruritania.