General Knowledge Questions
Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Lord Meath, Chaworth House, Ottershaw, Chertsey, for the following :-
1. Who said, and in what year, " One is forced to ask every morning what new victory there is for fear of missing one " ?
2. How did France obtain Corsioa, and when ?
3. What do you know about the Battle of Baltimore in America ? 4. What is the origin of the term " barrel " when speaking of ?
a gun
5. Who called Italy a " Woman Country " ?
6. What is the Novum Organom ? 7. Who founded the Foundling Hospital ? Give date.
S. What is the origin of the term, " Jingo Party " ?
0. When and under whom was Constantinople captured by the Turks ?
10. Who was the King of England who abolished torture ? /1, " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to
the rampart we hurried." Who wrote the above ? Relate the
event alluded to, giving the date and place of action.
12. What is the meaning of the term, " transubstantiation " ?
• 13. Who built the present United Services Museum in Whitehall, and who was beheaded just in front of it ?
Answers will be found on page 174.
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