28 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 29

General Knowledge Questions .

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week to Mr. A. M. Hyamson, Government of Palestine, Immigration and Travel Section, Jerusalem, for the following :- From whose names are the following terms derived ?

1. An abigail, a lady's maid.

2. A Billycock hat.

3. A Goliath.

4. The Guillotine.

5. Lynch Law. - 8. A Philippic.

7. The Schomburgk Line, The Boundary line between British gpitsna and Venezuela.

. 8. A Shillibeer, an omnibus. ' 9. Shrapnel. 10. An Uriah Heep. 11. A Robert Macaire, A highwayman. 12. To philander. - -13. To boycott.

Answers will be found on page ix.