Judge — January 1937 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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ARE YOU SURE? Fifty Questions to make you think. By Irving D. Tressler IT DOESN'T matter whether you use pen, pencil, or lipstick. Just check one of the suggested answers for each of the fol- lowing questions . .. A bank clerk scored 78 on this one. 1, If you were caught in a lobster trap with another lobster your companion might: wave a bluish-black claw in greeting betake his bright red self to a corner shake his soft slippery stomach in anger growl “Some people have a lot of crusta- cean!” 2. It’s high time you knew that H. G. Wells has written a sequel to his Outline of His- tory and that it’s entitled: What Every Man Should Know The World Today The Science of Life Science Versus History The Progress of Democracy 3. In the following list the words in one of the pairs are synonymous: paddle tennis—ping pong chevron—epaulet @ la carte—table d’ bite protegé—prodigy pertinacious—tenacious 4. The first line of that famous chorus runs “When Irish eyes are smiling” and it's fol- lowed by: “Tis a sign she loves ye dear!" "Sure it's like a morn in spring!’ “And Killarney's skies are blue!” "They steal your heart away!” 3. The city of Oshkosh has recently be come famous for its trunks, but it’s long been known because of its manufacture of: bed pans plows overalls storage batteries silk stockings musical instruments shiis bats 6. This is a good picture of Vice-Pres- ident Garner and if he ever invites you to visit him on his Texas farm don’t fail to remark on his fine crop of: rattlesnakes tobacco rabbits peas pecans sugar beets wives 7. Surely, everyone knows that a paddy field an Indian sacred prayer spot an Oriental grazing field a rice field an Irish potato bog 4 Chinese eel pond Judge 8. Ahem! dressmakers fremen old maids A cant hook is used by: golf professionals loggers fishermen surgeons icemen 9. Just to settle the question once and for all we looked the word tomato up in two dictionaries and found it’s pronounced: to-MAY-to to-MAH-to either way 10. One of these always washes its food before it eats it: restaurant waiter big snake ostrich shunk kangaroo polar bear duck owl raccoon 11. Select the firm here which is not prom- inently engaged in the manufacture of air- planes or airplane motors in this country: Pratt & Whitney Sikorsky Lockheed Boeing Douglas Kimberly-Clark Curtiss Fairchild Arrow 12, If the following sentence appears cor- rect to you in every detail then mark it as such: He shivvered wretchedly as he plodded through the deep January snow to the little cabin; suddenly, without warning, he came face to face with a pair of giant grizzlies. 13. If at 3 am. and an altitude of 10,000 feet over a Kansas prairie you were awakened in your “sleeper plane” berth by finding a buckeye beside you it would be perfectly correct for you to yell: "Help! A Kentuckian’s in my bed!” "Go away you bad, bad, glass marble!" "I refuse to sleep with a goat!” “What are you doing here, little chestnut?’ 14, By all the steel in Pittsburgh we swear that one of these sentences is true: Cold cream is an emolument A benedict is a bachelor The US. Army enlistment term is 3 years All fresh water fish die if transferred to salt water 15. Everyone knows that Franklin Roose- velt, Jr. is going to marry Miss Ethel du Pont, but not everyone knows that she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.: Irenee du Pont Felix du Pont Eugene du Pont Richard du Pont Nemour du Pont Lammot du Pont 16. If you should meet your end by being garroted, rest happy in the knowledge that you'll die by: having your bead cut off a slow bleeding strangulation a long series of bridge luncheons being squeezed in an iron press 17. One of these is not the name of an old-time automobile: Haynes National Mercer Premier Apperson Giotto Simplex Stearns Winton 18. The smile in this photo belongs to the latest winner of the U.S. Women's Golf Championship whose name is: Patty Berg Pamela Barton Maureen Crews Glenna C. Vare Virginia Van Wie Helen Hicks 19. It would be a lot easier to hoist a beer keg up onto a truck from the sidewalk if you used a: parbuckle spandrel parataxis flounder reamer dolly 20. All of those who are up on their slang will recognize all but one of these as a synonym for married: welded bitched lohengrined middle-aisled plastered spliced 21. One of these nicknames has been given one of these European statesmen: "Jumping Joe” Stalin “Lazy Leon” Blum “Airy Anthony’ Eden "Bouncing Benny’ Mussolini "Flying Sam” Hoare "Anxious Adolf’ Hitler 22. If a standard cigarette is approximately 2%” long then only one of the following widths is shorter: four nickels side by side four pennies side by side three 50 cent. pieces side by side the width of one one-dollar bill 23. It’s up to you to find the non-herbivor- ous animal among these: rhinocerous sheep moose giraffe goat beagle camel horse yak hippopotamus 24. Some day you may be called upon to pronounce the word phthisic and then you'll be glad you know it's: FIZZ.ic THIZZ.ic TIZZ-ic 25. The Blue Grass country is located in: Virginia Georgia Tennessee Carolinas Kentucky Vermont 26. Absinthe, as the ‘cliché says, may make the heart grow fonder, but it also has a predominating flavor of: juniper gall wormwood cherry caraway clove _— dishwater coriander 28 comicbooks.com