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

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ARE YOU F you've never been ex to the Stan- ford-Binet test you'll 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. More than five hundred years ago, price- fixing was invoked by one of the following rulers in extending the powers of professional ale-conners, or tasters, who were empowered to set the price of ale according to its quality: Henry V of England Louis XIV of France Richard the Lion Hearted Henry VIII of England 2. It is interesting to note that all but one of the following bills were blocked durin the run of the 75th Congress recently ad- journed: Wage-Hour Bill Reorganization Bill Miller-Tydings Price Bill 3. Someone has said that commentators are supposed to be much smarter than ordinary folks, At least we're smart enough to know which of the following is not a commentator: Hugh Jobnson Heywood Broun David Lawrence Westbrook Pegler Victor Moore Boake Carter Court Plan Farm Bill 4, In this day and age comedy is not usu- ally considered divine, but once a great “Di- vine Comedy” was written by: Milton Cervantes Dante Shakespeare Goethe Bacon 5. “He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.” This is a wise saying of: Spurgeon Walpole Franklin Lincoln 6. The organization of the aeeeing Eye” has been of invaluable aid to many blind per- sons through the use of: spectacles drops the microscope dogs 7. “Old Nick,” “Old Scratch,” and “Old Harry,” all refer to one of the following: Mayor LaGuardia James Farley Jack Dempsey the devil whisky 8. Playwrights do not usually receive as many plaudits as their leading ladies. Can you at least pair the following authors with their plays: - Clare Boothe a, Virginia . Kaufman and Hart b. The Women . Laurence Stallings ¢. You Can't Take It and Owen Davis With You Emerson Roosevelt the supernatural @ new operation bad temper 9. The beginnings of the science of sanita- tion and hygiene can be found in the cere- monial rites of ancient faiths. In one of the following religions fifteen ritual cleansings are required daily: Mohammedan Brabman Christian Buddhist ie may de- velop during the winter months, but at pres- ent the most outstanding in style is the: romantic motif tailored classic extreme modern ruggedly srry, mannish note plain and simple 10. Some unpredictable new vo, 11. For years we've thrilled to exciting tales of G-men, Mounties and the like. Even more exciting are the lives of the Fire Marshals who: 24 SURE? seek out the origin and cause of every re save the lives of people caught in fires look after the fire hydrants instruct new firemen in their duties 12. Down quilts are worth more than their weight in warmth. Of course you know that down is: the soft outer coating on peaches soft feathers, hair, or wool straw that bas been beaten into very fine powder dried corn silks 13. Baseball was originated by one of the following men: Ty Cobb Christy Mathewson Babe Ruth Abner Doubleday Honus Wagner Jobn McGraw 14. Pair the following inventors with their outstanding inventions: 1, Thomas Edison 2. Trevithick 3. Eli Whitney 15. Our best research shows that only one of the following persanages was a direct ancestor of England's present King, George VI: a. Cotton gin b. Phonograph . Locomotive Henry VILL Mary, Queen of Scots Charles 1 Queen Anne George IV William of Orange 16. If you were thrown into a cage with a cayman, you would probably be: frightened by the sight of a large allie gator dazzled by such a beautiful bird bitten by a poisonous snake 17. All but one of the following men are well-known wrestlers: Ray Steele Jesse Jame Ernie Dusek Robert Olin Jim Londos Man-mountain Dean 18. Can you detect the misspelled word in one of the following sentences: A surgeon is greatly aided by an anaes thetst A cist resembles a wet rubber football A physician must be skillful in’ ma- noeuvring with bis gloved hands 19. Etching, a method of picture-making upon metal plates, differs from engraving in that: all plates must be of pure gold lines and depressions are eaten out by acid etching was done only by the ancients, engraving by the moderns 20. So far as is known, one of the follow- ing is the only city in the world named after a novel: Boston Zenda London Miami Boise Saratoga 21. The famous four horsemen of football are: Red Grange Crowley Layden Stubldreber 22. One of these is not a main hazard of standing under a tsee in an electric storm: The discharge may side-flash from the tree The tree may explode The sap may start running from the tree. Benny Freedman Miller Fifty Questions to Make You Think 23. The ancient birthstone of a person born in October was the aquamarine. The modern Tiffany birthstone for the same month is the: ruby diamond emerald pearl 24. What three of the following painters were called the triumvirate of the 17th cen- tury: Rubens Rembrandt onyx bloodstone De Hooch Ter Borch 25. The title of First American Philosopher is coupled with the name of one of these men: Irving Santayana Emerson Jonathan Edwards | Poe ‘Will Rogers 26. The Ku Klux, again in the news, has played an important part in American his- tory, first as a vigilante organization after the Civil War, second reorganized: by William Simmons after the World War by the Catholics to promote Catholicism by the government to prevent lynchings 27, The Narrow Corner, The Painted Veil, Of Human Bondage, Mrs. Craddock, and Cakes and Ale are novels by: O.Henry Sinclair Lewis Vincent Sheean Edmond Rostand Somerset Maugham Negley Farson Vermeer Velasquez 28. Popular in the radio and music world, is the man who wrote “Carelessly” and “Cabin of Dreams.” Nick Kenny Carmen Lombardo Benny Davis Emery Deutsch George M. Coban Irving Berlin 29. The youngest President ever inaugurat- ed in the United States was: Theodore Roosevelt Grover Clevelan.! Herbert Hoover Woodrow Wilson Abraham Lincoln William McKinley 30. It's hard enough to do one thing well, but’ one of these men is at present Fisous as an actor, director and author: Lionel Barrymore George Abbott Spencer Tracy Gregory Ratoff Robert Milton Sam Harris 31. The American Ambassador to China is certainly on the spot. His name is: Alexander Weddell William E. Dodd Joseph C. Grew Nelson Jobnson William Phillips Robert Bingham 32. Readers of society: coliains thrilled re- cently at news of the betrothal of President’ Roosevelt's son John to: Betsey Cushing Anne Lindsay Clarke Ethel Dupont Ruth Googins 33. How well do you know Shakespeare? Remember that the clown in “As You Like It” is called: Manfred Banquo Touchstone Figaro Gargantua Macduff 34. Somebody breaks a record every day. The foot record holder for the crossing of the Atlantic is held by the steamship: SS. Normandie Queen Mary Rex Ile de France Bremen Conte de Savoia 35. The League of Nations recently rec- ognized which of these as the legal govern- ment of Spain? 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