Christmas Questions

`Below are printed the answers to the Christmas. Questions published in the Spectator of December 22nd:— 1. a. The man who lived on the other of the river. b. The chief actor in a play. c. Goat song. d. Drinking party. e. Country dweller. f. A non-Greek. g. A procurator, i.e., agent.

2. a. Paddington and Wolverhampton. b. Liverpool, Manchester and Bournemouth. c. The Hook of Holland and Basle. d. Chicago and Los Angeles. e. Haydarpasa and Baghdad. f. Auckland and Wellington. g. Paddington and Carmarthen. h. Chicago and Seattle. i. Cape Town and Johannesburg. j. Marylebone and Shef- field. k. Rhyl and Llandudno. 1. Bombay and Rawalpindi.

3. a. Newton. b. William Gilbert. c. Agricola. d. Newton. e. Robert Boyle. f. Russell and Whitehead. .g. Newton. h. Coper- nicus. i. Copernicus. j. Ptolemy. k. Vesalius. 1. William Harvey.

4. a. Elektra by Richard Strauss. b. The Girl of the Golden West by Puccini. c. Hugh the Drover by Vaughan Williams. d. Martha by Flotow. e. Norma by Bellini. f. Schwanda the Bagpiper by Weinberger. g. Salome by Richard Strauss. h. Samson and Delilah by Saint Saens. i. Turandot by Puccini.

5. a. Boiling and melting points of ice on Centigrade, Reaumur and Fahrenheit temperature scales. b. All prime numbers. c. Number of pence in a florin, crown, mark, noble and guinea. d. Number of centimetres in an inch, foot, yard and mile.

6. a. Orson Welles. b. Michael Powell. c. Ernst Lubitsch. d. Marcel Pagnal. e. Alweander Korda. f. Fritz Lang. g. Rene Clair. h. Frank Capra. i. Jacques Feyder. j. S. M. Eisenstein. k. Alfred Hitchcock. 1. Robert Flaherty. m. Jean'Duviyier.

7. -a. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. b. Origin of Species. c. Back to Methuselah. d. Nautical Almanac. e. Hereward the Wake. f. The White Devil. g. Twelfth Night.

8. a. Plato. b. Diogenes. c. Heraclitus. d. Socrates. e. Aristotle. :.f. Kant. g. Smuts. h. Spinoza. i. Russell. j. Berkeley.

9. a. Four score and ten. b. By following the instructions of the Oracle of Delphi he literally left no stone unturned when searching for the treasure left behind by the Persian general after Plataea (477 Lc.). C. Usually two. The ears of a newspaper are the boxes next to the .title, in the top corners of the front page. d. Claret is the name by which the wines of Bordeaux have been known in

England since the twelfth century. Clairette is a semi-sparkling red or rosé wine from South France (especially the Gaillac district). Clary wine is a concoction from raisins and flowering sage.

10. a. Pies. b. Cakes, shortbread, marmalade. c. Chaps, buns, olivers. d. Butterscotch. e. Tarts. f. Ham g. Ducks. h. Cheese.

i. Plums. j. Lager beer. k. Puddings 1. Plums.

11. a. Christopher. b. Nicholas. c. Anthony. d. Blaise. e. Osmund. f. Edmund Campion. g. Apollonia.

12. Letters a, d and e are fictitious.

13. a. Somaliland. b. North America. c. Wroxeter. d. Ceylon. e. Hangchow. f. Tasmania. g. Iceland. h. Corsica. i. New Zealand.

j. New Yolk.

14. a. Sainfoin—Onohrychis saliva. b. Corn marigold—Chrysan- themum sagetum. c. Lesser snapdragon—A ntirrhitzunz orontium. d. Thorough wax—Bupieurum rotundiflorium. e. Water soldier- Stratiores aloides. f. Green hellebore—Hellehorus viridis, or stinking hellebore — Helleborus foetidus. g. Herb robert — Geranium robertianunz.

15. a. Dorothy Sayers. b. Agatha Christie c. Thomas de Quincey. d. Raymond Chandler. e. The name for the edition of the Bible of 1801 in which the misprint, " murderers " makes Jude, 16 read: " These are murderers, complainers, walking after their own lusts etc." f. Nobody. The title of Poe's story is The Mystery of Marie Roget. g. Stanley Casson. h. Damon Runyon.

16. a. Captain Boycott, the original victim of the treatment. b. Thomas Bowdler who published an expurgated edition of Shakes- peare. c. Ellbridge Gerry, signer of the U.S. Constitution and Governor of Massachusetts in 1812 when the electoral districts were treated to the process. d. The Rev. W. A. Spooner. e. General Martinet, a French drill-master in the reign of Louis XIV. f. Short for grogram, nickname of Admiral Vernon who wore a grogram cloak-. g. John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, who used them to sustain him at the gaming table. h. Lord Brougham.

17. a. G. H. Lewes. b. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. c. George, Prince of Denmark. d. Mr. Harold Nicolson. e. Socrates. f. Lt.-General Sir Frederick Browning. g. John of Gaunt.

18. a. Francis Beaumont. b. W. A. Mozart. c. H. G. Liddell. d. D. L. Moody. e. Sir Arthur Sullivan. f Naunton Wayne. g. Richard Strauss.

19. a. Roderick Random. b. Pickwick Papers. c. Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities. d. The Wind in the Willows.

20. They are all drinks.

21. a. Inigo Jones. b. Sir John Vanbrugh. c. Lord Burlington. d. James Wyatt. e. Sir Gilbert Scott. f. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.