CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS

Below are printed the answers to the Christmas Questions pub- lished in the Spectator of December 26th.

1. a. Samuel Johnson (London, A Poem). b. Tennyson (Edwin Morris). c. Shelley (The Sensitive Plant). d. Burns (Verses on the Death of Sir James Iltoster Blair). e. Wordsworth (Peter Bell).

f. Wordsworth (The Idiot Boy). g. Alfred Austin (The Wind). h. Chapman's Homer. i. A Babu poet on the death of Queen Victoria. j. William Howitt (The Wind in a Rage).

2. a. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons). b. Antic Hay (Aldous Huxley). c. Cakes and Ale (Somerset Maugham). d. Black Mischief (Evelyn Waugh). e. Angel Pavement (J. B. Priestley). f. Portrait of a Lady (Henry James). g. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster).

h. Love and Mr. Lewisham (H. G. Wells). i. Death at the President's Lodging (Michael lnnes).

3. a. David. b. none. c. William. d. none. e. Charles. f. Henry.

4. a. The Wreckers (Ethel Smyth). b. Otello (Verdi). C. Gianni Schicchi (Puccini). d. The Perfect Fool (Hoist). e. Falstaff (Verdi).

f. Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi). g. Armide (Gluck). h. The Bohemian Girl (Balfe).

5. a. El Greco. b. Dame Sybil Thorndike. c. Maude Royden.

d. Dame Ninette de Valois. e. Agatha Christie. f. Moira Shearer.

g. Stendhal. h. Mark Twain. i. Cyril Connolly. j. George Eliot.

6. There were eight before General Eisenhower : George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison.

7. Sybaritic, Spartan ; Apolline, Dionysiac - laconic, peri- phrastic; diatribe, panegyric ; extrapolate, interpolate.

8. a. The number of faces of the five regular solids. b. The Kochel numbers of Mozart's symphonies 39, 40, 41. C. £1=--$2.80. d. A bowling analysis. e. Number of grammes in a lb. f. Length of solar year in days. g. The great claret years.

9. b, a, c, e, f, d.

10. All refer to Cambridge. a. Rose Macaulay. b. Alfred Marshall's inaugural lecture, 1885. c. C. Saint-Saens, Portraits et Souvenirs, 1900. d. Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1622. e. Gray's letters, 1760. f. J. E. B. Mayor, 1899.

11. a. H. de Vere Stacpoole. b. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

c. Phineas Fletcher. d. Sir James Frazer. e. Michael Arlen. f. Alexandre Dumas. g. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. h. Stendhal.

i. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

12. a. Stannic chloride pentahydrate or anhydrous stannous chloride. b. Lead acetate trihydrate. c. Potassium hydrogen tartarate.

d. Nitro-glycerine. e. Mercuric thiocyanate.

13. a. Cardiff. b. Edinburgh. c. Glasgow. d. Dublin. e. Colombo. f. Birmingham. g. Bristol. h. Chicago. i. Calcutta.

j. York. k. Plymouth. 1. Cambridge.

14. a. J. Galt. b. C. P. Snow. c. Anthony Trollope. d. William Dean Howells. e. Machiavelli. f. Henry James.

15. a. All are employed in a woollen manufactory. b. The Seven Sleepers of popular legend. c. Sites of Round Churches. d. Names of grapes used in making wine. e. Old Possum's Practical Cats (T. S. Eliot). f. Defunct makes of light cars. g. Type faces.

16. a. She was his daughter by Jocasta, his wife and mother.

b. Brother-in-law. c. Sister and wife. d. Father and son.

17. g, h, i are fictitious.

18. a. Cornwall and Devon. b. Cumberland. c. Staffordshire. d. Westmorland. e. Sussex and Kent. 1. Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Warwickshire. g. Isle of Man. h. Shropshire. i. Norfolk. j. Yorkshire. k. South Western Scotland. 1. Northamptonshire. 19. a. Julian Symons. b. Freeman Wills Crofts. c. Josephine Bell. d. Christopher Bush. e. Elizabeth Ferrars. f. Christianna Brand. g. Leo Bruce. h. J. J. Connington.

20. a. waistcoat. b. feet. c. wife. d. Jew. e. hat (tit-for-tat). f. rent. g. dinner. h. railway guard (Christmas card). I. pocket (sky rocket). j. heart (raspberry tart).

21. a. A defile in the Balkans, extending S.E. in the direction of Salonika. b. The crab that went on the Kon-Tiki expedition.

c. A novel by R. L. Stevenson. d. Head of a Nigerian tribe.

e. An ecclesiastical congress, 1521. f. Elizabethan England. g. A tribal chief in the North West Frontier Provinces. h. The Emperor of Abyssinia.