23 AUGUST 1930, Page 26

General Knowledge Questions

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. P. H. Sitters, 9 Dobraeina ulica, Belgrade, for the following :—

Questions on Fruit in Literature

1. Who " saw a cherry weep," and stated the reason ?

2. What "blooming young person" regaled herself "on dewberries " ?

:3. Who sang about the enjoyment of " rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine ' ? 4. Who gathered strawberries in "a large bonnet" with a " little basket " hanging on her arm ?

5. What little boy, having no money for tea, went to Covent Garden and " stared at the pine-apples ? In what garden did gooseberries grow as " large as plums " ? 7. What carpenter bore the name of an autumn fruit ? 8. What girl, at sight of her lover, "started so violently that she dropped " a basin of red currants ? 9. What poet wrote about olives that were " not blind " to the presence of their Master ?

10. Who had a sweet purse-mouth " for dangling grapes ? II. Who described himself as "a gatherer of sycomore fruit " ?

12. Who "got a cabbage-leaf full of raspberries from the gardener," and ate them " to prevent their squashing "

13. Who never liked to cut an orange because "the juice all ran out nobody knew where " ?

Answers will be found on page 203.