A Christmas Quiz

MAINLY LITERARY

By ALAN DENT

THE SETIER posed these questions and supplied the answers when away from his books. In checking them, both questions and Anvers, he found he had made ten inadvertent mistakes—errors of wording and attribution and the like. (Slips or variants in punctuation do not count.) Prizes—each a book token for one guinea—will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct corrected list of errors opened on December 16. Envelopes should be marked 'Christmas Quiz.'

Where in Shakespeare are these references to Christmas weather and wassailing and the like? And who utters them?

1 'Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated.'

2 'When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail.'

3 'When we shall hear the rain and wind Beat dark December.'

4 'Is not a commonty a Christmas gambol or a tumbling-trick?'

5 'In winter's tedious nights sit by the tire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.'

6 'At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth.'

7 'A sad-tale's best for winter: I have one Of sprites and goblins.' • • 8 'Knowing aforehand of our merriment, • To deck it like a Christmas comedy.'

9 'Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese, fly

that way.' •

10 'So hallowed and so gracious is the time.'

(10 marks)

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What Christian mantes did Dickens give to these ten characters in ten different novels?

1 Mr. Barkis, the carrier

2 Mr. Bumble, the beadle 3 Miss Havisham, the eccentric old maid 4 Mr. Chadband, the lay-preacher 5 Miss Snevellicci, the actress 6 Miss Pross, the nurse and maid 7 Mr. Wardle. the yeoman-farmer 8 Mr. Venus, the taxidermist 9 Mrs. Jarley. the waxworks-proprietor 10 Mr. Toots, the grown-up schoolboy (10 marks)

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II hat great tzovelists wrote these short stories?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Unc Passion dans le Desert , Ari International Episode The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion 1 he Seven Poor Travellers The'Sacl Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton The Pavilion on the Links Youth The Tale of Chloe The Haunter and the Haunted Conies a Ninon (10 marks) IV

The authoress of a world-famous Victorian novel wrote these also :

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1 The Red Court Farm 2 Lost Sir Massingberd 3 Lord Oakburn's Daughters 4 The Shadow of Ashlydyat 5 Pomeroy Abbey 6 Lady Audley's Secret 7 Danesbury House 8 Thornycroft Hall 9 Court Netherleigh 10 St. Martin's Eve Who was she? What was her maiden name? In which city was she born? What was by far her most popular book? And what _publisher's-

reader turned it down? (10 marks)

V What well-remembered music-hall artistes are particularly associated with these particular songs?

1 1 Belong to Glasgow

2 I Love a Lassie 3 My Old Dutch 4 It's a Great Big Shame 5 I Want to Sing in Opera 6 I Used to Sigh for the Silvery Moon 7 Jolly Good Luck to the Girl Who Loves a Soldier 8 All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor 9 A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good 10 Once Aboard the Lugger and the Girl is Mine 11 The Lily of Laguna 12 1 Stopped, I Looked, and I Listened .13 1 Was Standing at the Corner of the Street 14 In the Twi-Twi-Twilight 15 Get Out and Get Under 16 'Burlington Bertie from Bow 17 Any Old Iron?

18 Let's All Go Down the Strand 19 Let's All Go Round to Alice's House 20 Joshua, Joshua, Nicer than Lemon Squash You Are!

(20 marks) VI What major novelist has given his women these fancy or unusual Flames, and in what novels do they breathe and move? This answered, can you couple them with their correct sweethearts Or lovers?

I Fancy Day

2 Suke Damson

3 Lucetta Templeman

4 Marty South

5 Bathsheba Everdene

6 Viviette Constantine

7 Eustacia Vye

8 Avice Caro

9 Thomasin Ycobright

10 Tess Durbeylield (10 marks) The author of another world-famous Victorian novel wrote these also : 1 The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth 2 Love Me Little, Love Me Long 3 Foul Play 4 Griffith Gaunt 5 Hard Cash 6 Hard Times 7 A Terrible Temptation 8 What Will He Do With It?

9 Put Yourself in His Place 10 It Is Never Too Late To Mend Who was he? What was his better-known book? With whom did he collaborate in ivriting a very successful play? What was its title? With what very much younger and very famous actress

was he very friendly? (10 marks)

VIII Which not-unimportant characters in Dickens have these Christian names—and in what novels (all different)?

1 Seth 2 Ham 3 Lucretia 4 Kit 5 Prince 6 Tracy 7 Mulberry 8 Flora 9 Oliver 10 Noddy or Nicodemus (10 marks) IX Shakespeare, often declared to be an antici- pator as well as a poet, has these prophetic saws and modern instances. Who Utters them?

I 'The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth.'

2 'We split! We split! We split!'

3 'Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world.'

4 'Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity.'

5 'Chaos is come again.'

6 'I'll put a girdle round about the earth in fifty minutes.'

7 'It is as easy to count atomics as to resolve the propositions of a lover.'

8 . . The spring, the summer.

The chiding autumn, angry winter change Their wonted liveries.'

9 'Cry woe, destruction, ruin and dismay.'

10 'Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap, The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war.'

(10 marks)