Judge — May 1937 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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ARE YOU SURE? Fifty Questions to Make You Think. TF you've never been bay euppe to the Stan- ford-Binet test you'll find our own little I. Q. estimator invaluable. Just check one answer to each question. 70 is fair, 80 is good, and anything above 90 is just peachy. 1. At the recent Madison Square Garden meeting which caused an international con- troversy, which one of the following called Hitler satisfactionfabig, meaning “someone too low to be associated with"? Louis Untermeyer Cordell Hull Hugh S. Jobnson Stephen S. Wise Jobn L. Lewis Fiorello La Guardia 2. Before travellers cross the equator for the first time, they are given one name, and after they have crossed it, another. Identify the names from the following: Neptunes Equatiens Spheroids Navigators Shellbacks Mermen Imperialists Polliwogs 3. Who was the author of the quotation, of which vertu engend'red is the fleure? An Englishman at any rate, but which one? Shakespeare Wordsworth Chaucer Milton Tennyson Browning 4. The founder of the popular surrealist school of painting has his name right below: Giorgio Di Chirico Hunt Diederich Pierre Matisse Gaston LaChaise 5. Peacock blue and gold are the colors of one of the following colleges Yale Stanford US.C. Mlinois Notre Dame Fordham Brown Dartmouth Cornell 6. In front of the mansions of New York notables, a man, belonging to one of these organizations, paces daily. See if you can spot him! Pinkertons National Detective Agency Fire Department Insurance Agency Holmes Patrol 7. If an individual were reduced to his es- sential protoplasmic ingredients, how much water would there be left? about fifty percent approximately sixty percent over eighty percent less than twenty percent 8. Which of these items listed below means the same thing as AVOCADO? old silver cooking utensil Mexican bat alligator pear 9. The poet, Edward Arlington Robinson, was born in one of these Maine towns: Head Tide Blue Hill Gardiner Indian Cove China Seal Harbor 10. Like us, you've probably often wondered how to tell a porpoise from a dolphin, or vice versa. You compare their respective: lengths tail shapes widths head sizes weights noses 11. Starting at sea level, how many feet up in the air does the Empire State, world’s highest building, go? 26 7,000 feet 4,111 feet 2,372 feet 1,208 feet 9,086 feet 635 feet 12, A southern lady helped Eli Whitney, who was her son’s tutor, to perfect his cot- ton gin by lending him her: tooth pick air tonic nail file slipper money comb 13. The word ZUNI stands for: a brand of tooth paste a member of an Indian tribe 4 well-known trade mark a patent medicine 14. To “down east” fishermen, the word “shorts” is a colloquial expression for: abbreviated trousers loose ends of rope lobsters too small for market value little boats carried on vessels 15. Climbers in the Tyrol have a customary greeting with which they salute one another. Can you give it? Griess Gott Guten Morgen Wie Gebts Guten Tag 16. That little girl who helped Jason get away with the Golden Fleece was: Aphrodite Medea Persephone Diana Artemis Electra 17. Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis is the technical term for one of the following: a sea urchin type three pneumonia the common cold a tadpole 18. Crinoline, from which our ever-so-great Grandmamas used to make their party dresses, was distinguished from other materials by: straw flax wool rayon cotton horsehair 19. A nifty Mexican term is Conepatl, and it is used for one of these here things below: the name for a skunk a very delicious pancake their favorite cocktail 20. A square rigger with two masts is nau- tically classified as: a sailing vessel a barkentine a schooner a ketch a brig a jawl 21. Beelzebub, the nom-de-plume for the Devil, is derived from one of the following languages: Yiddish Armenian Greek Latin Anglo-Saxon French 22. Thought you might like to know that President Roosevelt belongs to one of the following denominations Lutheran Baptist Unitarian Methodist Presbyterian Episcopal 23. See if you can check this sentence at first glance for its misspelled word: Several enthusiastic pyschologists reinstated the cooperative adjunct of emancipated colloids. 24. We all know so much about her daughter, so let’s see if we are aware of Mrs. Simpson's mother’s chief hobby? tracing her genealogy playing bridge stamp collecting painting knitting kite flying 25. What is the oldest game played on the North American continent? tennis ping pong golf lacrosse badminton croquet 26. Can you decide from the suggestions given herewith in which metropolis Charlie Chaplin was born? Belfast Manchester Liverpool Glasgow London Dublin 27. One of these fruits is a creation of two fruits not here given and is a man-made artificially produced article. nectarine jelly bean bread fruit persimmon guava 28. Yardley’s has a singular perfume which is named after a sidewalk, as one might say. Take your choice. Wall Street Central Park Queen Anne's Row Pall Mall Bond Street Park Avenue 29. Lily Pons, opera and movie star, was born in: America Roumania Spain aly Austria France 30. In this age of operations, most of us have had to take ether in one form or an- other. Regarding ether, which of the fol- lowing is incorrect? bitter taste inflammable strong odor colorless 31. From what college did Rudy Vallee Braduate? Harvard Princeton Rutgers Notre Dame Yale Maine $2. Speaking of natural history, which one of these animals is carniverous? elephants wombats bears hippopotami muskrats 33. See if you can pair up the right author with the right book. Edna Ferber J. B. Priestley Willa Cather Sherwood Anderson Angel Pavement The Professors’ House Story Teller’s Story Show Boat 34. A famous Chinese poet of the umpty- umpth dynasty is listed here. Say “eenie, meenie, minie, mo,” and maybe you will hit it right. Po Li Li Po Lo Pi Li Op 35. Ski-joring 1s a ski term which is ap- plicable to: being pulled by a horse going straight down bill synonym for “herring bone” preparing for the take-off comicbooks.com