General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to E. hitching, Stoneleigh? Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Herts, for the following :--
Questions on Plutarch's `! Lives "
1. Who noticed that Julius Caesar scratched his head with on Anger ?
2. Who played at ninepins in the street and would not make way for a cart ?
3. Whose hair stood a little upright ? 4. Who "had a kind of sound in his voice that he never lost not altered ?"
5. Who bore the nickname of " Mind " ?
6. Who practised conversation in a cellar underground ?- 7. Who noticed that a certain horse was afraid of its own shadow 8. The statues erected to him always bore a helmet. Why ? 9. On what island did choirs land in a disorderly manner, and why ?
10. Who gazed upon Athens from a distant island and wept bitterly ?
11. What child was "a little too saucy" with his mother, and what did his father say of him ?
12. What prisoners received their freedom because they, could
recite from the works of Euripides ? A 13. A warrior poet fought in a battle and wrote a tragedy about it. He watched the tragedy in a theatre from which he could see th6 scene of the battle. Nabie the -warrior pout, the battle, the tragedy and the theatre..
Answera wilibe found on page 198,
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