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

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ARE YOU SURE? Fifty Questions to Make You Think. Grasp a pencil between a thumb and two fingers, then check one of the sug- gested answers for each of the following questions. . . . 70 is passing. 1. If you have been reading the sport pages of your daily paper, you'll know that the United States Golf Association has changed the stymie ¢o: 40 feet 12 inches 36 inches 10 feet 50 yards 100 yards 2. In the present rage for hot music, it's nice to know that one of these lads is not a swing man. Cab Calloway Benny Goodman Eddie Duchin Ray Noble Louis Armstrong Fats Waller 3. We've all heard of Michaelmas, but how many of us know that it falls on: September 29 February 28 March 21 November 28 July 14 May 1 4. That lucky old boy who had the knack of changing everything he touched into gold was: Croesus Dionysius Apollo Midas 5. The sentence, Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran, is an example of: euphony poetic license 6. If you are familiar with Mexico, you'll know that a Mestizo is: a bouse-boy « Yankee whimsy alliteration 4 Castillian @ Cavalier an Indian a balf-caste 7. Should you meet a metaphysician, you would probably greet him with: How's the old tooth-straightener? Take a look at my tonsils, will you, Doc? Still teaching science? I've always wanted to meet a philosopher. 8, These forms of architecture are all hor- rid, but one is the epitome of bad taste. Rococco Decadent Baroque 9. A gudgeon, by golly, is a: slap-stick black jack fresh water carp infant sturgeon a native of Maine 10. Nobody cares much, but over the Arctic wastes of Greenland, flies the flag of: The United States U.S. S.R. Sweden Denmark Italy 11. Neither is this of any importance, but there really is a King of Italy and his name is: Humbert 1 Leo XII Jaime VI Vittorio Alberti Vito VIIL Victor Emmanuel Il 12. The distinction of being every man’s other country is given to: California Spain France U.S. SLR. Ireland 13. The name of the theater in which Abra- ham Lincoln was assassinated was: Roxy's Schubert's O'Brien's Coben's Ford's 14, Frederick Delius is a composer just coming into vogue among the cognoscenti. He's: Finnish American Dutch British French 15. Recently, that very old, very witty com- edy, “The Way Of The World,” was revived on Broadway. The author, of course, was: Ben Jonson William Congreve Nicholas Udall Oscar Wilde Joe Miller 16. Yo’ ‘all sho'ly know that one of these southern states was neveh, neveh a member of the Confederate States of America, suh. South Carolina Maryland Louisiana Florida Virginia Alabama 17. If you were the stroke on the Oxford crew which handed Cambridge a drubbing, you'd be known affectionately to your fellow- Oxonians as: an old stinker an old blue a big show-off a damyankee 4 powerhouse Ben Hur 18. Blank verse is a common term for: e. @. cumming’s poetry Herbert Hoover's speeches unrhymed iambic pentameter Eddie Guest's daily doilies 19, The Black Watch is a term given to: the Harlem police 4 famous Highland regiment the Stanford football squad 20. One, and only one, president of the U. S. was a bachelor. Sce if you can spot the lucky rascal. Franklin Pierce Andrew Jobnson Rutherford B. Hayes Millard Fillmore Martin Van Buren James Buchanan 21. If you know your polo, you'll know that the referee or umpire may call a foul on a player for: Riding too fast Using profanity Not riding fast Making faces at op- enough ponents Holding on to bis Hitting the ball in saddle the air 22. If and when you meet the Archbishop of Canterbury, you should address him as: Your Grace Daddykins Your Eminence Your Highness. Your Lordship Your Holiness 23. If the little woman ever surprises you by bringing home Dutchman's breeches, you can be sure she's been: out with a squarehead playing strip poker picking wild flowers robbing clothes lines 24. In the movies or in reality, you've seen London buses with their ever present Bovril signs, Bovril is: dark brown ale Scotch whiskey , small beer beef extract crumpets marmalade 25. In view of the present confusion about Spain, it might be well to remember that the Loyalist government is really: an appendage of Russia @ bunch of crazy anarchists a Utopian experiment @ military dictatorship a democratic republic 26. When you go back to your University commencement, you'll be able to tell your kids that those lads in the academic proces- sion wearing scarlet gowns are graduates of: Southern Methodist Oklahoma A, & M. Harvard St. Andrew’s McGill Heidelberg 27. And when you meet a man wearing a little red button in his lapel, you'll know that he’s a member of: Rotary Kiwanis Soviet Republic Veterans of Foreign Wars Sons of American Revolution French Legion of Honor 28. Come, now, if you read the papers, you're sure that the capital of Australia is: Westminster Bombay Brisbane Montreal Canberra Sydney 29. If your one and only told you that she was born in June, the only jewel to give her for her birthday would be a: spangle diamond bloodstone crystal ruby topaz pearl agate 30. ‘Way back when Herbert Hoover was President, one of these fellows was V.P.: Calvin Coolidge Andrew Mellon Thomas Marshall John Hancock Alexander Throttlebottom Charles Curtis 31. The code of ethics of the medical pro- fession is known as: the lives of the saints the doxology the Oath of Hippocrates the survival of the fittest Hermes is: a rash caused by eating strawberries the seven year itch the messenger of the gods ants in the pants 32. 33. Let's pretend you're shooting craps. Eight’s your point, and the odds against your making it are: 2tol 3to2 even 6105 34. The Fourth of July is looming up, and you'd better be sure which of these is the national anthem: America The Battle Hymn of the Republic Columbia Happy Days Are Here Again Dixie The Star Spangled Banner 35. A writer who enjoyed the unusual dis- tinction of being equally facile in both French and English was: Charles Dickens G. K. Chesterton Oliver Goldsmith Qscar Wilde comicbooks.com