Judge — March 1938 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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ARE YOU SURE? Fifty Questions to Make You Think r doesn't matter whether you use pen, pencil, or lipstick. Just check one of the suggested answers for each of the following questions. A banker scored 76 on this one. 1. St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, was: born in Belfast not Irish himself the legendary friend of lovers first man to discover a four-leaf clover a reformed snake-charmer 2. The youngest American mother on rec- ord was: ten years old Margaret Sanger twelve years old eleven years old fourteen years old thirteen years old 3. It wouldn't do a chef any good to re member that “Stanley Steamer” was the name of: a vaporizer for curing colds @ patent boiler for making plum pudding an automobile @ home service steam bath the Livingston rescue ship 4. Ferdinand Lundberg recently caused much political stamping of feet and oral denun- ciation with his book entitled: Imperial Hearst Theory of the Leisure Class The Turning Wheels How to Make Friends Nauseous To Have and Have Not America’s 60 Families 5. You don’t have to be dizzy to know that a dervish is a: Spanish dancer devil fish top brown bat worn by Al Smith fakir Russian dancer 6. This handy little reckoning device, used by early Greeks and Romans, and still used in Russia, Persia and remote towns in France, is called: Abaca Abatis Abalone | Accolade | Abacus i Ajax 7. Who said, “Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes?”: General Custer General Hugh S. Jobnson Captain Flage Israel Putnam General Grant Barbara Frietchie 8. See how good bes are at matchmaking. Pair the following baseball teams with their recognized nicknames: 1. Chicago National League team a. Cardinals 2. St. Louis Ameri- can League Team b. Cubs 3. Chicago American League team c. Bees 4. Boston National League team d. Browns 5. St. Louis National League team e. White Sox 9. You don't need a magnifying glass to pick out the misspelled word in this para- graph: A wastrel was irretrievably lost in a grue- some swamp without a bateau. Inadvert. ently he chanced upon the hideaway of @ homocidal maniac who slew him and thus terminated his opprobrious career. 42 10. No one likes to be bothered by a hig- gler, who is a: peddler untidy person —_ loquacious man person with a disagreeable voice telephone operator big 11. One of these statements is correct: "The Thousand Sparrows” is a price- less Chinese painting. Sun Yat Sen was a descendant of The Rising Sun. Hirohito, Japanese Emperor, recently convened the Imperial Council. 12. The modern dress coat, as well as the idea of a uniform type of dress for men, originated with: Napoleon Louis XIV Moe Levy Beau Brummell Duke of Wellington Don Juan 13. The Devil Dance, whose purpose is “to chase out the Spirit of Evil that hides in the land,” is one of the great festivals of the: Hopi Indians Lama Church Mexican peasants Republican Party natives of Africa Spanish gypsies 14, Justice George Sutherland's recent suc- cessor to the Supreme Court bench is: Jobn L. Lewis Walt Disney Jobn A. Reed Stanley F. Reed Jobn Milton Hugo Lafayette Black 15. The most beautiful tattooing in the world is boasted by a people who tattoo on the lips, an almost unendurable torture: New Zealanders Africans Abipones Ubangis Australians Eskimos 16. The term “strike” is common to four of the following sports: football track etting Girdler’s goat baseball fishing bowling 17. Pair the following Broadway successes with their one-line reviews: 1. Yes, My Darling Daughter 2. I'd Rather Be Right 3. Room Service 4. George M. Cohan as President Roose- velt. Nuff said! 6. Ob, Broadway, thou art sorely trying to a Broadway producer! ¢. Rebellion from a (Greenwich) Village rebel. 18. If you shot out the starboard light on a ship, it would be: on the left and red mutiny on the right and red on the right and green simony on the left and green 19. The old favorite Dubonnet cocktail is made with half a jigger of Dubonnet, one cast of Orange Bitters and half a jigger of: Apricot brandy Cointreau Gin Applejack Rum 20. In France, the person who is fooled on April 1 is called: an April fool a cabbage head an April shower Whiskey Paris Green an April fish ‘a dope an easy mark 21, When Shakespeare made Hector quote Aristotle who lived several hundred years after the assumed date of Hector, he was guilty of: perjury fooling the public anachronism i unacoenosis perfidy analogy 22. This bundle of rods is called: Faroes Fasces Fashoda Faro Fascine Fata Morgana 23. You would be most likely to find a wood louse: under your bed in a dictionary _ in an old violin in Alaska in a wood carving 24, The first name of the famous Flemish painter, Rubens, is: Henry Stinky Oscar Peter Alma Hans 25. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and “Look before you leap” are well-known sayings of: Shakespeare Daniel Webster Aesop Benjamin Franklin Al Capone Noah Webster 26. In the fine arts, a diaper is: an aid to young mothers a silver screen an all-over decorative pattern the signature at the bottom He oil paintings 27. In poetry, this flower stands for con- stancy: Wallflower Touch-Me-Not Edelweiss Everlasting Forget-Me-Not Pillsbury’s Best 28. The box which holds a ship’s compass is called the: barnacle binnacle binocular bin pinochle binary 29. Pair these composers with the operas they wrote: in your hat 1. Verdi a. Carmen 2. Bizet b. Tosca 3. Giordano ©. Aida 4. Puccini d. Andre Chenier 30. A nautical mile is the equivalent of: 3,280.8 feet 5,280 feet 4,326.9 feet 6,080.20 feet twice around the ship’s deck 31. A five-voice fugue is a: Short operetta with five principals set H| uintuplets before breakfast quintet o; foie contraltos and a coloratura Soprano musical composition on five themes 32. The capital of Yugoslavia is: Prague _— Belgrade Walla-Walla Budapest Bucharest Sofia 33. Socialite or not, you should know that the term faux pas is properly pronounced: fo pa fox pass folks pa horse doovers 34. The abbreviation nb. on a memo means: please destroy after reading no business please note well act immediately let me know if you don’t get this 35. On a sailing vessel the main stay is: a jib boom the main mast the cook a cable the Captain's girdle the rudder 36. The “P” in the name P. T. Barnum, greatest of all showmen, stands for: Philip Pluto Pharaoh Pflug Phineas Philburt 37. Troy weight is used in weighing: grain liquids elephants Greeks gold horses a comicbooks.com