ASK YOURSELF

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 17

ASK YOURSELF

Answers in Illustrations Page. (1) Suppose you were looking for a lost friend and were given one of the following places as his address, with no further information. In which case would you be sure of going to the right place on your first attempt to find him? London, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Wellington, Stockholm,

Vienna. (2) The statement that "we have looped the loop" was made during the last few days by one of the following. By whom? • Mr Henry Ford, Mr Ernie Clark, Miss Jean Batten, Herr Hitler, Mr Savage, Captain J. W. Burgess (commander of the Centaurus), M. Chautemps (Prime Minister of France), the King of Italy. (3) If it were reported that Mr George Bernard Shaw intended to invite the persons named in the following list to a dinnerparty you might be inclined to doubt its probability, but the inclusion of one name would definitely discredit the report. Which one is it? M. Stalin, President Roosevelt, Mr J. W. Beanland (Mayor of Christehurch), General Franco, Mr Hiiaire Belloc (the English writer), M. Maurice Ravel (the French composer), Sir Oswald Mosley. (4) The reason for the visit to Spain of Prince Xavier of BourbonParma was reported in the cable news during the week to be one of the following:— To attempt to bring abput a peaceful settlement of the civil war. To install General Franco as regent. To lead a rebel unit. To organise relief work for refugees. To pay a visit to the birthplace of Cervantes. (5) The word Jeroboam refers to two of the following. Can you decide which are the two? An annual Mohammedan feast. An Old Tcstamenv Jewish King. The name of the sword which was given by Merlin to King Arthur. A bottle containing champagne. The vessel in which the Holy Oil was kept by the priests of Israel. (6) Of the following lines from Shakespeare and Milton two are incorrectly quoted. Which aro they? To-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. the thousand natural shocks The flesh is heir to. Shall I compare thee with a summer's day?