Christmas Questions

Set by Six Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge 1. What have the following in common?

' a. William Jaggard, Edward Blount, Isaac Smiths- weeke, William Apsley b. Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Samuel Smiles's Self-help. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Man- agement, George Eliot's Adam Bede c. H. Jupp, J. Lillywhite, G. Ulyett. T. Emmett d. George Lovelace, James Lovelace, James Hannett,. Thomas Standfield, John Standfield. James Brine e. St. John's. Trinity, Corpus Christi, Jesus, Pembroke f. Fournier, Centaur. Plantin, Bell, Bodoni g. Loup, Rascasse, Roucaou, Vive, Angelot 2. Between what places do the following famous trains run?

a. The 1311:z Train e. The Enterprise b. The Blue Bird f. The Merchant Venturer c. Englwnderen g. The Mistral d. Dovre Express h. The Puritan 3. Who said of whom'?

a. `To thee, with hope and terror dumb. The unfledged MS. authors come; Thou printest all—and sellest My . .

b. • . . with his prism and silent face The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.'

.c. 'As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.'

d. • . . shall live till lodestones shall cease to draw.'

e. `Dead, but in the Elysian fields!'

f. 'For through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.'

4. If you were invited to dine in the following famous res- taurants, where would you be in each case?

a. Parellada g. Wheeler's b. Jammet's h. Prunier c. Alfredo alla Scrofa i. Maxim's d. Pappagallo's j. Chez Foyot e. A L'Epaule de Mouton k. Antoine's f. • Oskar Davidsen's 1. Chambord 5. What are the pseudonyms of the following distinguished French people?

a. Jacques Tatischef f. Pierre Blanchard b. Emile Hertzog g. Fernand Contandin c. Charles Jeanneret h. Jeanne Bourgeois d. Pablo Ruiz . i. Lucien Noel e. Leonie Bathiat 6. What is a?

a. Wheatstone bridge e. Voltaic pile b. Leyden jar f. Archimedean screw c. Torricellian vacuum Newton ring d. Petri dish h. Wilson chamber 7. Correct the following book list a. Year of Decisions, by Fred Hoyle b. The Foreseeable Future, by Harry S. Truman c. The World That Fred Made, by Sir G. Thomson d. Decade of Decision, by Sir H. Nicholson e. Good Behaviour, by Bernard Darwin 8. Of what operas are the following the heroines?

a. Leonora de Vargas e. Lucy Ashton b. The Queen of She- f. Lady Henrietta Durham makhan g. Sophia von Faninal c. Eily O'Connor h. Mathilde Gessler d. Elsa of Brabant 9. What do the following study?

a. Selenography c. Otorhinolaryngology b. Axiology f. Psi ttacology c. Psephology g. Paleontology d. Taxonomy h. Nematology 10. In what newspapers or periodicals do the following fea- tures appear?

a. 'A Window on the World' g. 'London Day by Day' b. 'A Countryman's Notes' h. 'Our London Corre- c. -Critic on the Hearth' spondence' d. 'London Diary' i. 'The Londoner's e. 'The World Overseas' Diary' f. 'City and Suburban' j. 'London Laughs' 11. What is the significance of the following numbers?

a. 5, 12, 13 b. 1931, 1932, 1935, 1939, 1941 c. 21, 36, 55, 60, 67, 68, 92, 93, 125 d. 330, 247, 464, 194 e. 16, 224, 448, 1,792, 35,840 12. What?

a. 'Knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.'

b. 'Is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.'

c. 'Hath no skill in surgery.'

d. 'Is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.'

e. 'Never comes too late.'

f. 'Is but a sleep and a forgetting.'

g. Is 'but a frailty of the mind, when 'tis not with ambition join'd.'

h. 'Is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be Current . .

i. 'Is justified of her children.' Is 'the warder of the brain.'

13. What were the functions of the following castes in India?

a. Brahmins c. Vaishya b. Rajputs d. Sudras 14. Who?

a. Took up atheistical opinions when a mere youth at college and endeavoured to make proselytes to these opinions in a girls' boarding school.

b. Wrote a novel to pay for his mother's funeral.

c. Claims to have written a so-called poem entitled 'My Aunt Mrs. John T. Savage's Garden at 185 South Fifth Street, Columbus, Ohio.'

d. Used his supposed affliction with a congenital dis- order of the liver as a pretext to escape from difficult situations.

e. Was 'in his closet with the Fleece about his neck.' 1. Shall be seen among the Saints performing on a harp of gold.

g. Was a 'pore benighted heathen, but a first class tightin' man.'

(The answers wH1 be published neat week)