General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Lieut. B. Stracey Clitherow, R.N., H.M.S. Vortigern,' c/o G.P.O., for the following :—
Questions on Winds
1. What nation was saved by an East wind ?
2. What famous battle was fought in a howling westerly gale ?
3. Which wind may have been father of a goddess ? 4. What poet wrote an ode to what wind, saying that no ode had ever been written to it before ?
5. Where do the following winds blow ? (a) Bora, (b) Khamsin, (c) Williwaws, (d) Southerly Buster, (e) Mistral, (f) Tornado. 8. Where does the following quotation come from :
" Curse on the fog 1 Is there never a wind of all the winds I knew To clear the smother from off my chest, and let me look at the blue " ?
7. What are the " classical names " of the (a) North, (b) South, (c) East, and (d) West winds ? • 8. Who said the wind blew " like the Bull of Barney " ? 9. What is the origin of the expression Trade Wind ?
10. What, according to a famous poet, is (a) More unkind, (b) More inconstant, than the wind ?
11. What month in what calendar is called the windy month ?
12. Who wrote the song from which this comes ?
" Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the Western Sea, Over the rolling 'waters go Come from the dying moon and blow, Blow him again to me."
13. Who wrote : " We tracked the winds of the world to the steps of their very thrones, The secret parts of the world were salted with our bones " ? Answers will be found on page 108.
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