DID YOU KNOW THIS

. The answers to the questions set in THE SPECTATOR of Decem- ber 27th are CIS follows:

Politics and History.

(a) Sir Edward Grey ; (b) Lord Nelson ; (c) J. A. Froude ; (d) Lord Macaulay ; (e) John Bright ; (f) William Jentlings Bryan. Prose.

(a) Jane Welsh Carlyle's Letters*; (b) J. J. Rousseau's " Contrat Social"; (c) Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland "; (d) Book of Ecclesiastes ; (e) "Hamlet"; (f) Lord Macaulay's History.

Poetry.

(a) Matthew Arnold; (b) Robert Browning ; (c) William Words- worth ; (d) Lord Byron ; (e) George Herbert ; (f) George Meredith. Titles.

(a) Louis Aragon;' (b) Boethius ; (c) Henry Fielding ; (d) Hans Fallada ; (e) Sophocles • (f) Manzoni.

Painting. • (a) Picasso ; (b) Kneller (the Duke of Monmouth) ; (c) Seurat ; (4) Michelangelo ; (e) Rembrandt ; (I) Giotto.

Music;

▪ (a) Delibes ; (b) 'Schubert ; (c) Beethoven ; (d) Delius; (e)

▪ Toscanini ; (f) Monteverdi; `Plays.'

(a) Noel Coward ; (b) J.-P. Sartre; (c) Pirandello ; (d) J. B.

Priestley, (e) Ibsen; (f) John GalSworthY.

Films.

(a) Alfred Hitchcock ; (b) J. drierson ; (c) Orson Welles ; (d) S. M.

Eisenstein ; (e) Jack Lean ; (f) jean Vigo.

Geography. -

(a) Island off Arabia ; (b) Philippine islands; (c) 'Panama Canal ; (c/) Antarctic ; (e) Anglesey ; (f) British New Guinea.

Recent Events.

(a) September 29th, 1938; (b) May 3rd, 5926 ; (c) December 7th, 1945; (d). December nth, 1936 ; (e) February isth, '5942; (I) August 54th, 1941.

Burials.

(a) Hucknall Torkard, Notts ; (b) Bunhill Fields ; (c) Winchester Cathedral ; (dj Vence, Alpes Maritimes ; Xi) Florence ; (f) East Wellow, Hampshire. -

Famous Figures.

(a) Typical merchant in Addison's Spectator; (b) King of the Matabele ; (c) Correspondent and subsequently wife of Sir William Temple (seventeenth century) ; (d) Muse of Epic poetry ; (e) Dr. Johnson's black servant ; (I) Robespierre,

Famous Events.

(a) Rebellion against Henry VIII in 5536 caused by oppressive taxation and suppression of monasteries; (b) Murder of two Catholic ministers by ejection from the windows of the Hradschian Castle at Prague at beginning of Thirty Years War ; (c) Throwing of tea into Boston harbour by Boston citizens on December nSth, 5773, as protest against British tax on tea. Beginning of American War of Independence ; (el) Revolution of Sicilians against Charles I of Anjou, breaking out at hour of Vespers, Easter Tuesday, 5282. Thousands of French were massacred ; (e) Cycle of epidemic i in the fourteenth century killing 25,000,000, a quarter of Europe's population ; (f) The "Manchester Massacre "of August r6th, 1859, when a peaceable reform meeting was charged by soldiers and 'there were at least -600 casualties.

Sports.

(a) Falconry ; (1)) Rowing ; (c) Stalking ; (d) Fishing ; (e) Golf ; (f) Tennis.

Bird and Beast.

(a) President Roosevelt ; (k) Duke of Wellington ; (c) King Henry IV; (d) Barnaby Rudge ; (e) Don Quixote ; (I) Long John Silver (Treasure island).

* This should have read "When one is married to a man of genius."