Judge — April 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 the 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, It's time for motor trips again, and in mapping your routes, you probably prefer highways laid in concrete strips. But about ten years ago you would have been glad to find macadam roads, which means: Roads built according to ancient Roman en- gineering principles Roads paved with small broken stones Roads of English paving blocks such as Dick Whittington tread 2. Along with colossal and stupendous, movie trailers often announce that forth- coming productions are “gargantuan.” This adjective is derived from: The gargoyles on the Notre Dame Cathedral The inclusion of many gorgeous girl num- bers in the production The name of a giant ina satire by Rabelais 3. Spain recently has been the tragic arena of untold human massacres, but in happier days Spaniards contented themselves with killing bulls and horses instead of each other, and the man who plunged his sword into the bull's heart was called the: bicador Stevedore troubadour picaroon matador, raquero 4, When that keen fellow from Scotland Yard in your current detective reading is hot on the trail of the criminals, it is said he is “ferreting” out the mystery because: He has a resourceful mind in which ideas grow’ plentifully He is as persevering a hunter of humans as alittle animal used in bunting rabbits and vats He deals with criminals as sharply as that rod schoolmasters used in dealing with wayward pupils 5. Many persons engaged on the Norris Dam project when obliged to peer into the deep Colorado canyon from lofty peaks of the construction, have experienced dizziness and nausea. The doctors call this sensation: verdigris ventricle viscous vortex cardigan vertigo lachrymose thrombosis disatole 6. You call a pediatrician when: Something's seriously wrong with your foot The baby is ill The rose bushes have been attacked by a blight You want your bicycle repaired 7. We have all seen photographs in which various unrelated objects are grouped togeth- er in one picture. To achieve this effect the photographer has cut up various films and pasted certain parts together. The name of this technique is: Collage Badinage Pelote Decolletage Montage Pelisse 24 8. Something has gone wrong with our radio and our favorite news commentators all came in on the same wave-length. Can you straighten them out? Edwin C. Carter Floyd Thomas Lowell Heater Boake Hill Gabriel von Kaltenborn Hans Gibbons 9. A friend's idiosyncrasy is to drink only alcoholic beverages distilled from grapes. If your bar contains the following liquors, which one can you offer him? scotch whiskey anisette bourbon whiskey vodka cognac pulque brandy 10. St. Patrick drove out of Yreland: Orangemen snakes leprechauns rodents potatoes lepers 11. Most of us agree that it's bad enough to be on Uncle Sam's income tax list, but even worse not to be on it. It just goes to prove that the government doesn’t think two can live more cheaply than one, because the ex- emption granted a married man is greater than a single man’s by: 50% Five hundred dollars Fifteen hundred dollars 12. The beagles you read about in English novels are: Brooches for ladies’ dresses Parts of ancient Norman cathedrals Hunting dogs 13. What great inventor's son has been ap- pointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Albert Einstein Theodore Vail Alexander Bell Thomas A. Edison Orville Wright Samuel Morse 14, What contemporary Roosevelt is the child of Theodore Roosevelt's brother: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sr. James Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt Sara Delano Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Margaret Roosevelt 15. Those famous New England bluestock- ings ar Swamp insects Boston chorines Wives of seafaring men Intellectual ladies 16. Sharp eyes can tell in which phrase be- low the term panning is misused: Part of mining in Klondike days was pan- ning for nuggets The critics gave the author a terrible pan- ning The artist was better at panning than at sketching his paints The photographer was good at panning his camera, but bad on stills 17. A great painting that appeared on U.S. postage stamps The Mona Lisa The Eiffel Tower Whistler's “Mother” 18. The poet who wrote “Whan that Aprille with her shoures soote” is: Shakespeare Thackeray Ben Jonson Chaucer Coleridge Francois Villon 19. You can have had nothing whatsoever * to do with botany, but you must have had an eye for beauty to know that the Jersey Lily was: Evelyn Nesbitt Annabel Lee Anna Held Dinah Lee Lily Langtry Jenny Lind 20. If you begin to think you're Mae West, Trotzky, or Kemal Ataturk, and insist on telling everyone about it, you're suffering from: silicosis schizophrenia delerium tremens paranoia 21. To people beginning to have such de- lusions as above in a mild way, so that they tell only their friends and family, psychir- trists have given the name Bovarism. This name was derived from a character out of 2 novel by: Owen Wister Gustav Flaubert Bret Harte Ernest Hemingway 22. Where docs John Brown's body “Lie a-moulderin’ in the grave"? Liberty, Kan. North Elba, N.Y. Valley Forge, Pa. Harper's Ferry, W.Va. 23. One of these indispensable features of the American scene has just reproduced itse!f for the twenty-five millionth time: The public school "Gone With the Wind” The American buffalo The Ford car The stop and go traffic light The roadside hot-dog stand 24. Spring fashions for women are strong on redingotes, so if you want to discuss clothes you've got to know that redingotes are: short boyish jackets slit skirts dresses with puffed sleeves coat of coat and dress ensemble 25. When you go horseback riding, the part of the horse you sit on is his: withers shoulders pastern loins hock forequarters frog cannon hip 26. But when you put your money on Mr. Bones, his jockey would be fired pretty quick unless he rode over the: crest flank withers point of shoulder neck barrel elbow gaskin back 27. In many European countries gifts are not exchanged on Christmas day, and Santa Claus is not the gift-giver. For example, in Italy the generous fairy “Befana” distributes her gifts on: All Saints Dey Mussolin?’s birthday March on Rome Anniversary Epiphany Day Passover Michaelmas 28. Nine of the following old men sit on the Supreme Court Bench (as we go to press): Hughes Van Devanter Stone Butler Roberts Hand Cardozo McReynolds (Page 29, please) Taft Sutherland Robinson Brandeis comicbooks.com wv