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

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ARE YOU SURE? I you've never been exposed to the Stan- ford-Binet test you'll find our own little I. Q. estimator invaluable. Just check one enswer to each question. 70 is fair, 80 is good, and anything above 90 is just peachy. 1, In the present Popular Front government, the President of the French Council is: Albert Lebrun Jean Legas Cecil DeMills Leon Blum Camille Chautemps 2. The term “inferiority complex” is most closely associated with one of the following great psycho-analysts who died recently: Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Bertrand Russell Havelock Ellis Alfred Adler William James 3. Legend places the Fountain of Youth, sought by Ponce de Leon, on the islands which today, at least, are an angler’s paradise: Haiti East Indies Philippines Biminis Balearics Hawaiians 4, You'd have to swing a wicked club to beat the amateur golf champion of the United States, who is: Bobby Jones Gene Sarazen Ralph Guldabl Tony Manero Sam Snead Johnny Fischer 5. There's but a fine line between comedy and tragedy. Can you distinguish among the following a comic actor? Moliere Bacchus Walter Huston Shakespeare Edward Everett Horton 6. You needn't be a social climber to scale the heights of the highest mountain in North America, It is: Mount Assiniboine Mount McKinley Mount Rainier Mount Pisgah Mount Whitney Mount Logan 7. Which of the following great Americans was born in New England: Abraham Lincoln William McKinley Daniel Boone Robert E. Lee Daniel Webster Alexander Hamilton 8. Even if you can't make an eggnog you should know which of the following is called the “Nutmeg” State: Massachusetts Maine Vermont Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire 9. If you could travel as fast as sound, you would travel approximately: 520 feet per second 1080 feet per second 240 miles per hour 60 rods per minute 10. The modern birthstone of a person born in August is the: Amethyst Diamond Bloodstone Topaz Emerald Ruby 11. One of the following is not a religion: Mobammedanism Buddhism Neoplatonism Hinduism Zoroastrianism Judaism 12. The Mississippi, Away From My Door, of the following towns: St. Cloud St. Paul "Ole Man River, Keep keeps away from one St. Louis St. Joseph 13. If a horse cuts the back of his front foot with his hind foot, he has: caulked bimsel sprained spiked himself cast a shoe over-reached tripped himself is ankle 24 14. A number of non-transparent substances make up glass. The principal ingredient is: straw clay iron sand Spinach copper 15. The “Battle above the clouds” fought in the United States was: at the Cleveland, Ohio, air races at the top of Look-out Mountain by Landon and Roosevelt, via radio 16. Her star may not flicker in the heavens, but it’s the brightest one on the American stage today: Judith Anderson Katharine Hepburn Katharine Cornell Helen Hayes Alla Nazimova Greta Garbo 17. Prohibition supposedly made the United States dry, but a Martini is dry when it con- tains gin and one of the following ingredi- ents: Absinthe Grenadine Cointreau Lime juice Italian Vermouth French Vermouth 18. Author of “The Road Back” who also wrote “All Quiet on the Western Front” is: H. G. Wells T. E, Lawrence Aldous Huxley Erich Remarque Havelock Ellis R. C. Sherriff 19. Isadora Duncan will long be remem- bered for her: beauty singing painting wrhing dancing acting 20. If one of your weekend guests is too eager to get that summer tan, and has a mild sun-stroke as a result of it, you should stand him on his bead give him a Tom Collins put bis feet in cold water loosen his clothing and put a cold, damp cloth on his neck 21. Lost on a desert isle, nothing left but a few provisions and an American flag, you could put up the proper distress signal by: hanging up your shirt-tail hanging the flag by one corer fying the flag up-side-down Gia tbe fog end a obile handkerchief together 22. In contract bridge, playing against a no- trump declaration, the lead of an ace by your ” partner calls for: your fourth best card in the same suit jour highest card in the same suit jour lowest card in the same suit a new deal 23. Do you know whom the broadcasters identify as a “glorifier of jazz"? George Gershwin Werner Janssen Bing Crosby Horace Heidt Paul Whiteman Deems Taylor 24. Every business man should know what constitutes libel: defamation of a person by word of mouth defamation of a person that is written defamation of a class, as lawyers or doctors 25, The first automobile crossing of the South American continent recently was com- pleted by the following world-famous ex- plorer and adventurer: Sir Hubert Wilkins Doctor McGovern Mawson Hubert Carton de Wiart Admiral Byrd Shackleton Fifty Questions to Make You Think 26. “You can't fool all the people all of the time” is a statement made by: Henry Ford John L. Lewis Shakespeare Abraham Lincoln Patrick Henry Franklin D. Roosevelt 27. If you haven't a thermometer, the best way to test the bath water for the baby is to: Put your finger. in it put the baby in and see if be turns red best it with your elbow 28. Much of the recent interest in camping may be traced directly ¢o: ms Daniel Boone Mrs, Roosevelt Buffalo Bill Daniel Webster Daniel Beard Walter Camp 29. Before placing cooked foods in the re- frigerator, they should be: bottled heated jalied oa tasted sealed 30. What four powers form the Balkan En- ente, pledged to maintain the st: i feate. pledge intain the status quo in Turkey Greece Roumania _—_Jugoslavi Bulgaria Albania Czechoslovakia’ Hungary 31. One of the following is not a famous tennis player: Crawford Peary Budge Van Ryn Stoefen Mako 32. It’s always @ question what the future will bring, but Gibraltar is still controlled by: Spain aly Portugal France England Germany 33. “Dusting ‘em off” in baseball parlance means: throwing the bat at the umpire pitching at the batter's head hibitzing from the bleachers brushing off home plate 34. An ancient method of applying a design to cloth by means of melted wax and ten dipping in cool vegetable dye is called: batiste batik bauxite baton bauchi waxahachie 35. When an opera in five acts is as popular as “Faust” we ought to know that it was written by Verdi sacks Gounod Boles 36. Yellowstone National Park is located mainly in: Nevada Wyoming Puccini Busoni California Oregon Utab Colorado 37. The Wagner Act is an act to: encourage practice of collective bargaining do away with child labor encourage industrialists to band together 38. At least astronomers believe in ghosts! An astronomical “ghost” is: an exploding Star a planet with a ring around it the reflection of a bright heavenly body in telescope lenses 4 comet 39. Can you choose the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history: Braddock Dempsey Louis Tunney Schmeling Carnera Judge comicbooks.com