Christmas Questions

1. Where do ?

a. Men dye their beards alizerine.

b. The old plain men have rosy faces. c. Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair.

Where are ?

d. Things done you'd not believe At on Christmas Eve.

e. The wells four hundred feet deep, and lined through- out with camel-bone.

Where did ?

f. The sentinel . . . look forth into the night.

2. Give the common English names for: a. Galanthus f. Lampyris noctiluca b. Alopecia g. Poinciana regia c. Hibiscus mutabilis. h. Cyphosis d. Paronomasia i. Ornithogalum e. Rhinitis j. Ergophobia 3. a. The year in which an English car was made was the square of its rated horse-power. What make of car was it ?

b. How many numbers between 1 and 1,000 are divisible neither by 5 nor by 3 ?

c. The square of a man's age is the cube of his grand- son's age. How much older is he than his grandson ?

d. Twelve of King Arthur's knights are to sit at the Round Table. What are the chances against Sir Lancelot sitting next to Sir Galahad ?

e. How many hours were there in October, 1951 ?

f. The following series is connected with a well-known game. Continue the series to its fifteenth term, and state the game and the connection:— 0, 0, 4, 0, 1, 10, 0, 4, 20, 1.

4. What musical works (state composer and genre) have following titles attached to them ?

a. The Schoolmaster e. The Scotch b. The Inextinguishable f., The Nigger c. The Trout g. The Polish.

d. The Golden 5. What is the difference between ?

a. A dolmen and a dolman b. A nocturn and a nocturne c. A ballad and a ballade d. An Aryan and an Arian e. A victoria and a victorine f. Solipsism and a solecism.

6. What distinctions have the following places in common ? a. Lancaster, Somerset, Chester, Windsor, York, Rich- mond.

-b. Lancaster and Durham.

c. London, Durham and Winchester.

d. London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York.

7. Name the other member of the following partnerships:: g. Callard and h. Collard and i. Tate and — (ancient) j. Tate and — (modern) k. Villikins and — 8. With what statesmen do you associate the following words ?

a. We must now at least educate our masters.

b. The Right Honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and, he walked away with their clothes. the a. Mason and — b. Dodson and — c. Howell and — d. Besant and — e. Gunn and — f. Alcock and c. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will as I trust, save Europe by her example.

d. Try sparrow-hawks, Ma'am.

e. Some neck!

f. Three acres and a cow.

9. Complete the following hexameter lines: a. This is the forest primaeval . . . .

b. Romulus, October, . . . .

c. .o for the tongue or the pea d. These lame hexameters .

e. Tityre, to patulae . . . . 1. So won Philip his bride ....

10. What are ?

a. Chicle I. Oonts b. Tsamba g. Gooks c. Flapdoodle h. Goums d. Quebracho i. The Boyg e. Zombies j. Yurts.

11. Who said or wrote ?

a. Nothing like a little judicious levity!

b. Humour is out of place in a dictionary. c. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me d. That charming and instructive sight—an upper middle,' class family in full plumage.

e. They are the lords and owners of their faces.

f. I am not young enough to know everything.

g. This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper.

12. With what form of sport connected ?

a. John Roberts b. R. H. Harris c. Madrali d. William Webb Ellis 13. Who were the following Biblical characters ?

a. Tol f. Nun b. Pul g. Been c. Buz h. Abaddon d.'Hur Jephunneh.

e. Phut 14. What well-known characters are concealed under thd following names ? a. John Henry Brodribb e. Mr. Bullfinch b. Jean Francois Gravelot f. The Doctor c. Citizen Riquetti g. The Bison d. The Widow's Mite h. The Bull.

15. Supply the missing place-names in the following lines: a. Half-owre, half-owre to — 'Tis fifty fathoms deep.

b. Crossing the stripling Thames at —.

c. Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards — and --'s hold.

d. Place me on —'s marbled steep. • e. I waited for the train at —.

f. Today the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under g. It's down by the Lower Hope, dear lass, With the — in view.

h. And the lizards below in the grass Are silent as ever old — was. are or were the following e. R. T. Jones f. T. W. Burgess g. Cecilia Colledge h. Sir G. Thomas 36. Where would you expect to -find ?

a. Bateablers b. Oberon and Titania c. Ajaib Gher d. Chi-lapalapa e. The joint habitat of Vicia Faba and Gadus f. Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, • • Soles, onions, garlic, roach and dace.

IT To what composers do the following quotations refer ?

a. Hats off, gentlemen! A genius!

b. It is to him that I always return with pleasure and calm, as to bread, the food of which one never tires.

c. I'll give another kreutzer if they stop the thing! d. " Eh bien, les voila qui viennent !" " Oui, ils viennent, mais moi je m'en vais !"

e. It's the first time for sixty years that anyone dared to make a fool of me.

f. He plundered us of our youths, even our women he seizes and drags into his cave. Ah, this old Minotaur!

g. Music is all around us: the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

The answers to these questions will be printed in the Spectator of December 28th.