SET BY MACKENZIE STEWART

1. What is the difference between?

a. The United Kingdom and the British Isles b. Cobbles and setts C. Dumbarton and Dunbarton d. Practice and practise e. Angola and Portuguese West Africa 2. What?

a. Counties in the British Isles have ridings b. Is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as the theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge' c. Is Tir-nan-og d. Is a gauss e. Is a sheading 3. How?

a. Long is a Sabbath day's journey b. Can a watch be used as a compass c. Famous is T. Norgay d. Far west does a line drawn due south from Edinburgh cut the south coast e. Did Sibelius come by the name Jean 4. What have the following in common?

a. Bell, Cape, Constable, Long b. Antofalla, Beerenberg, Erebus, Tambora C. Atlantic, Pacific, Mogul, Adriatic d. Enns, Drava, Sava, Morava e. Soke, Holland, Isle of Ely, Isle of Wight 5. Where?

a. Was 1984 written c. Was J. S. Bach born b. Was Tyburn d. Is Guarani spoken e. Is the heart of Robert Bruce 6. By what names are or were the following better known?

a. H. H. Munro d. Louise de la Ramee b. 0. H. Mayor e. Kenneth Bird c. Mme. Henri de Jouvenal

7. From what London terminus would you take a direct train for?

a. Birkenhead d. Bournemouth b. Inverness e. Appleby (Westmorland) c. Lutterworth 8. Who said, and of whom?

He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

His address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their attention particularly.

A sophistical rhetorician.

Tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in oceans.

Stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty- mindedness.

9. What is?

a. The largest city in Pakistan b. The odds on a tossed penny coming heads, after it has come heads nine times running c. The largest cathedral in the British Isles d. An abscissa 10. What do the following abbreviations stand for?

a. ASLEF b. ASLIB c. ESN d. t.e.g. (with reference to books) e. BBBC 11. The following are sub-titles of well-known books. What are the titles?

a. An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods employed for their Realization b. or, Over the Range C. CU, L'Optimisme d. A Pure Woman e. A Self-Educator based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery 12. What have the following in common?

a. Corvo, Fayal, Pico, Terceira b. Peers, minors, prisoners, lunatics C. Alma-Ata, Ashkabad, Frunze, Tallinn d. London Road, Victoria, Midland, Arkwright Street e. Jeremiah Clarke, B. R. Haydon, Hugh Miller, Van Gogh 13. Who said?

a. There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

b. Women who are indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their under- standings.

C. The true art of memory is the art of attention.

d. There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

e. Mais oh sont les neiges d'antan?

14. A miscellany : a. What animal is the fastest runner?

b. What is the name for a native of Monaco? C. Do you recognise the following? Who wrote it? Der Schlichte Toven, Wirrten und Wimmelten in Waben !

d. The following, according to the Registrar General's Estimates of Population, were the twenty largest towns in England and Wales at 30th June, 1955. Can you place them in the correct order?

London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Nottingham, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leicester, Bradford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stoke- -on-Trent, Coventry, Croydon, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Harrow, Southampton 15. How many of the following exist in the British Isles?

i. British Goat Society ii. League of Welldoers National Amalgamated Association of Nut and Bolt Makers iv. Society for the Assistance of Ladies in Reduced Circumstances v. Society for Improving the Condition of the Labour- ing Classes vi. Society for Individual Freedom vii. Society for the Integration of Philanthropic Endeavour viii. Spring Trapmakers' Society ix Women's Gas Council x. Yorkshire Warptwisters' Society (The answers will appear next week)