Judge — March 1937 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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ARE YOU SURE? Fifty Questions to Make You Think. GRAB A PENCIL in your good right hand and check one of suggested an- swers on each of the following questions «++ 60 is just fair, 70 is good, and anything above 80 puts you in the brain trust. 1, During the 1936 political campaign this advertising slogan was used rather widely in certain magazines: “There Are Enough Men Wearing To Elect The Next President Easily”: Blue Jay Corn Plasters B.V.D.'s false teeth Paris Garters Knox Hats rubber beels Florsheim Shoes 2. Nestling among these proper names are the four original horsemen of Notre Dame: Stubldreber Gipp Lash Kelley Kowoscicki Layden = Miller ~— Leemans Berwanger Crowley Hogan O'Brien 3. When your husband sings fortissimo while in the shower you may shout at him: "Stop crooning those icky love songs!” “For heaven's sakes, not so loud!” “How about hitting the right note occasion- ally?” "Were you ever told you couldn't sing bass?” 4. Those baskets which peasant donkeys in the movies carry on their backs are usually called: panniards pantheists palliards pampas parabolas bantalettes panniers pannikins palladiums 5. There wouldn't be much green left on this carth if we were suddenly deprived of all: acetic acid hydrogen chlorophyll sodium chlorate coceyx helium 6. Among the following facts about the present Congress you shouldn't have too much difficulty in selecting the false one: The present session of Congress is the 75th Carter Glass is the oldest member of the Senate The House majority leader is Rep. Rayburn There are no women in the Howse this session 7. Presenting for your inspection a drawing of a sample of cloth. A tailor would call such a sample a: snick swatch swab swale systole swash swage sward switch stylus swish snatch 8. For most of us it’s hard to remember when, with varying intensity, we haven't longed to be able to do a Spanish dance and click those things spelled: ¢astonets castranets castanets cascarets 9. To get your hands clean when you wash them you usually need: 4 somite an excoriator a detergent a monovalent a pustule @ scrivener 24 10. For 40 years the name Pendergast has been politically associated with: St. Louis Omaha Kansas City, Mo. Philadelphia Chicago Indianapolis Milwaukee Denver Kansas City, Kan, 11, If you were asked to select a color which was not some shade of yellow or orange you might safely choose: henna ochre apricot citron damask sulphur saffron amber 12, That organization of automobile tourists which holds an annual winter convention in Florida is called: Trailer Homemakers of America Highway Hoboes of America Tin Can Tourists of America Gas Buggy Babies of America Society of ltching-Footed Americans 13. In the U.S. Army a shavetail is just another word for a: general second lieutenant cavalryman cook YMCA worker sergeant private corporal 14, Perhaps you know it already, but just the same the word puberty is pronounced: PUBB-er-tee PEW -ber-tee POO.ber-tee 15. Judging from the roto pictures, one of these internationally photographed _ ladies would weigh quite a bit less than any of the others: Mrs, Stanley Baldwin Marion Talley Princess Juliana Mrs, Joseph E. Davies 16. We've seen Edison Mazda lamps ad- vertised for a good many years, but not until recently did we know that Mazda is the name of: the founder of Edison Industries, Inc. the German discoverer of the a.c. principle the ancient Persian Creator of the World the Austrian inventor of filaments in light bulbs 17. Nebraska has been in the news lately because everyone is watching her new: tax on tourists spending under $10 in the state law forbidding married secretaries tax on church salaries and incomes one house legislature law forbidding bazooka broadcasting 18. Jack Dempsey has been spending the winter at Miami Beach, Florida, running a hotel which goes under the modest name: Biltmore-Dempsey Dempsey-Blackstone Waldor|-Dempsey Jack Dempsey-Vanderbilt Dempsey-Savoy Dempsey-Ritz Carlton 19. For promoting his son-in-law, Count Ciano, to such a high government position Mussolini has been accused of: proselytism anachronism syndicalism nepotism solecism meliorism 20. If you were really desperate for a smoke you could get comfort out of all but one of these: panatela cigarette cheroot stogy fag snipe lucifer rope 21. Anaconda, it is true, is the name of a large wire and cable company, but it's also the name of: @ South African copper mining region a low value iron ore from South America the leading mining family of South America large snakes which crush their prey 22. Just for a few minutes, relax and select the one correctly spelled word here: medecine berbacious magniloquence _paralellism annoint langorous 23. If you were taking an exam on antique furniture you'd get one wrong if you listed one of these as being a type of period furni- ture: Sheraton Queen Anne Georgian Louis XVI Chippendale Louis XV Hepplewhite Haviland Federal 24. And here we have a drawing of that musical instrument which is slangily known as a “sweet potato” and formally called: Ocarina flageolet harmonium clavichord piccolo melodeon concertina Spinet euphonium ? 25. Canaries are still a pretty reliable way of warning: opera singers as to their trueness of pitch brewmasters as to the strength of brew miners against the presence of deadly gas policemen against over-perfumed old ladies 26. Count yourself right on this one if you pick out all three samples of redundancy: He told her he was the present incumbent and she replied, "Will you please repeat that again?’ whereupon he sat down and gave her the autobiography of bis life. 27. Succeeding the late Gus Gennerich as the President's personal bodyguard and at- tendant is: Ernest L. Chapin Peter G. Forster Andy Maechaelson James Roosevelt Thomas J. Qualters Joseph N. Travis 28. One frequently sees news stories which mention the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, but not all of us are aware that geodecists are those who study the: tidal influence upon rivers and harbors history of the earth as recorded by rocks oceanic weather trends over long periods of time mathematics dealing with the location and shape of the earth's surface 29. We accept commercial transatlantic telephone service as an everyday thing now- adays, but seldom realize that it is only: three years old ten years old five years old fifteen years old comicbooks.com