General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. C. E. Newman proitwich, Worcestershire, for the following :— Questions on Blindness 1. Who was the author of the poem beginning " Blind Bartimeus at the gate of Jericho in darkness sat " ?
- 2. What long poem records the last hours and violent death of a blind man ?
3. " The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle." By whom, and of whom, are these words written ?
4. Who comforted himself with the thought that he had worn out his eyesight in the cause of liberty ?
5. What does the Prince of Wales owe to a blind old king who fell is battle ? • ' 6. What creatures, with but one eye apiece (according to Greek mythology), dwelt in Sicily, and what had Ulysses to do with them ? ' 7. Who lost his sight in a strange way, and was restored by Raphael ? 8. Of whom do we read in Scripture that " they blindfolded 4ink ?
9. Who were reproached for being " blind guides " ? 10. Who asserted at the end of a long life that he had never received any bribe " to blind his eyes " ?
11. The name of a blind, but great, living British musical com-
pose 12r ?
. The name of a late Postmaster-General who was blind ?
• 13. In whose mouth does Shakespeare place these words ? If you will, cut out my tongue,
So I may keep mine eyes : 0 spare mine eyes, Though to no use but still to look on you."
Answers will be found on page 717,
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