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Niger, nigra, nigrum ; - Chou, hibou, caillou, joujou, pou ; Audere, ausus sum.

Who dragged whom round the walls of when: ? How many beans make four ?

Why doesn't who want whom to have The Polish Corridor ?

What were or are an isobar, A Zoroastrian, Negus, Avernus, asymptote, The Neanderthal Man ?

Give three cube roots of - 1, The genitive of (3n.

The population of Assam. Is Mussolini dotty ?

Which would you rather undertako, Were you 'Queen Mary's' owner, To carry coals to Newcastle Or nuts to Barcelona ?

Did Cain, though Abel for the Job, Get Gideon Gilboa ?

When Esau Rachel all a-Cog Could Eve 'n Adam Noah ?

Are Cowes or Oxon Middlesex ?

What Hots and Bucks are Thame ?

How matched a pair are Agar's Plough And Harrow ? In what game

Is it no bad Lie to say that none

But the brave deserve the Fair- Way ; yet Rough justice has ordained That a round can end all square -1' If cosec a's - 1

And tan2 n 's 8. Find y Log e of 23

And differentiate.

,Was Titus Oaths a Quaker, Roman, Hottentot or Chartist ?

of Ep- and Ein- and Gertrude Stein . Which is the greatest artist ?

In the Arctic or on Everest How would you boil a kettle ?

When's Christmas Islaad ? What's the height Of Popacatapetl ?

Compare, Contrast the Yin, the Yan.

What is the Irish Trouble ? How many Popes were innocent?

Why did the South Sea Bubble ?

Cannel-Elijah proved a pair Too.strong for Basil's deacons ; What force can rival now the flare Of Horeb-Elisha's beacons ?

Give dates of Homer, Habakkuk Rabindranath Tagore.

What happens if you cook an egg In H2SO4?

What is or are Talahnannar ?

What is an axolotl ?

Which is the greatest : Wooster, B.

Hitler or Aristotle ?

Ridz-Smigly, Cosmic entropy— The former or the latter— Which guides the destinies of man, • And does it mind or matter ?

f3AWo-Kovi, 'ip.oAov•

Niger, rugra, nigrum ; Chou, hibou, caillou, joujou, pou ; Audere, ausus sum.

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D. J. T. LusR'.

[We offer a prize of £2 2s. for the best set of answers to this contribution, in not more than 50 lines of rhymed verse, received by first post on Tuesday, December 20th. —En. The Spectator.]