28 JUNE 1930, Page 41

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss M. Crawford, 28 York Place, Harrogate, Yorks, for the following :-

Questions on Well-known Phrases

Give the origin of the following phrases :-

1. A pretty kettle of fish. 8. To call over the coals. 2. The bitter end. 9. At loggerheads.

3. On tenterhooks. 10. A baker's dozen.

4. To go to the wall. 11. To take the cake.

• 5. To eat humble pie. 12. To show the white feather. 6. As plain as a pikestaff. 13. To take down a peg or two. _ 7. To go on a, wild-goose chase

Answers will be found on page 1030.