Christmas Questions

Set by Six Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge

1. What is a

(a) Prandtl Number?

(b) Number on Moh's Scale?

(c) Number on Ringelmann's Scale?

(d) Kochel Number?

(e) Number on the Beaufort Scale?

(D Number on the Reaumur Scale? (g) Longo Number?

2. In what part of the world are the following cheeses made?

(a) Centel. (f) Chavignol.

(b) Cotherstone. (g) Liptauer.

(c) Blue Vinny. (h) Over.

(d) Dunlop. (i) Truckles.

(e) Slipcote. (j) Volvet.

3. Which of the following terms do not ring true? Slipware; faience: salt-glaze; Buckingham; Jackfield; biscuit; Chelsea Delft; lead resist; tortoiseshell; jasper; marbled.

4. Who wrote the following books that have be- come best-sellers in 1958?

(a) Our Man in Havana.

(b) Parkinson's Law.

(c) A ku-A ku.

(d) The Bell.

(e) The Decipherment of Linear B.

(f) The King Must Die.

(g) Doctor Zhivago.

(h) The Log from the Sea of Cortez.

(i) Anatomy of a Murder.

(j) A Room in Chelsea Square.

5, By what names are the following more gener- ally known?

(a) Domenico Theotocopoulos.

(b) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi.

te 1 Alessandro Bonvicino.

(d) Bernardino di Betto.

(e) Raphael Sanzio.

(f) Jacopo Robusti.

(g) Tiziano Vecellio.

(h) Paolo Cagliari.

6. Who are meant by the following? (a) the exile of Ferney.

(h) the first Gentleman of Europe.

(c) the Great Commoner.

(d) the Iron Chancellor.

(e) the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

(f) the Rupert of Debate.

(g) the Seraphic Doctor.

(h) the Warrior Queen.

(i) the laughing philosopher.

(j) the philosopher of Sans Souci.

7. To whom or what were the following ad- dressed, and by whom?

(a) Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine.

(h) . . . be not proud, though some have

called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.

(c) You are so quiet these days that I get quite nervous, remove the dressing. No I am safe, you are still there.

(d) 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so.

(e) Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! (1) Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never may return.

(g) Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy,

Until 1 labour, 1 in labour lie.

9. What have the following in common?

(a) Arlington, Ashley, Buckingham, Clifford, Lauderdale.

(b) A. B. Drachmann, H. R. Mill, Margaret Goodenough, Sir James Wordic.

(e) X.efp, Varec, Caliche, Water at Woodhall Spa.

(d) Sydney H'umphrcys, Trevor Williams, Watson Forbes, Derek Simpson.

(e) Frans Briiggen, Jaap Schroder, Janny van Wering.

(f) Eddie Gray, Teddy Knox. Jimmy Gold, Jimmy Nervo, Charlie Naughton; Bud Flanagan.

(g) Ile de France, L'Arbalete, Edelweiss, Ligure, Oiseau Bleu.

(h) ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque, sice.

(i) marble, oolite, chalk, iceland spar.

(i) Kastrup, Midway, FilhIsbuttel, Elmdon.

(k) Angstrom, micron,. parsec, digit.

(1) Yellow fever, plague, scrub typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

(in) Northumbrian, Planet, Lancashire Witch, North Star.

(n) 68, 73, 90, 98.

10. What was the relationship between the follow- ing?

(a) Prince Andrew Bolkonski, Lise, and Masha.

(b) Konstantin Dmitriyevitch Levin and Sergei lvanovitch Koznuishef.

(c) Hero and Beatrice.

(d) Strelnikov and Pasha.

(e) Hetty Sorel and Martin Poyser.

11. Name the composer and librettist of the following works: (a) Cox and Box.

(b) Cosi Fan Tune.

(c) Der. Rosenkavalier.

(d) Rigoletio.

(e) Peter Grimes. .

(f) The Rake's Progress.

(g) Oklahoma! GO On the Town.

12. Of what works are these the opening lines? (a) It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies—who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two—that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

8. Where would you expect to be affected by the following?

(a) the Williwaw. (f) the Harmattan.

(hi the Bora. (g) the Papagayos.

(e) the Bohorok. (h) the Surazos.

(d) the Buran6 (i) the Mistral.

(e) theKaraburan. (b) A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE . . .

(c) The University Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology lived in Old Court.

(d) When one man is following another, how- ever discreet may be the pursuer or pur- sued, the act does not often pass un- noticed in the streets of London.

(e) Gumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, BA, Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and won- dered . . .

(1) A University College varies its facial expression about as frequently as the Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle- well.

(g) 'The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row.'

(h) 'This here Progress,' said Mr. Tom Small- ways, 'it keeps on.'

(i) An unresisted lady-killer is probably less aware that he roams the pastures in pur- suit of a coquette, than is the diligent Arachne that her web is for the devouring lion.

13. Who is the best-known incumbent of

(a) Hogglestock?

(b) Dean Prior?

(a) Fulston St. Peter's with Bemerton?

(d) Diss?

(e) Plumpstead Episcopi?

14. Name the authors of the following quota- tions: (a) We have watered our horses in Helicon.

(h) It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

(c) Three things I never lends—my 'oss, my wife and my name.

(d) Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War.

(e) England is a paradise for women and hell for horses.

(f) I would horse-whip you if I had a horse.

15. Who is the Master of (a) The Horse?

(b) The Rolls?

(c) Trinity College, Cambridge?

(d) Those Who Know?

(e) The Queen's Musick?

(f) Ballantrae?

(g) University College, Oxford?

16. Who is the Mistress of

(a) The Robes?

(b) Girton College, Cambridge?

17. Which British University has a Faculty or Department of

(a) Brewing Science?

(b) Drama?

(c) Naval Architecture?

(d) Tropical Medicine?

(e) Human Ecology? (1) Shakespearian Studies?

(g) Oceanography?

(Answers on page 921)