General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted 'is awarded this week to the Rev. F. E. Warner, Amberley Rectory, Stroud, Glos., for the following :— Questions on the Apocrypha
1. Which two books are attributed to Jewish kings ?
2. What text from the Apocrypha was chosen by an English queen for her husband's memorial ? 3. Which of the cantieles in the Prayer Book is taken from the Apocrypha ?
4. What verses from an Apocryphal hook occur in the Com- munion Office ?
5. Whence did Shakespeare derive the figure of " A Daniel come to judgment " ? 6. Who was " the sociable spirit that deign'd to travel with Tobias " (Milton) ?
7. Of what character in English, fiction is it recorded that " when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond„ the son of Sirach's keen-edged 'wards would bring a delighted smile 7 to his face
8. Which Apocryphal book speaks in high terms of the medical profession ? 9. And which mentions the use of elephants in warfare ?
10. What verse from the • Apocrypha brought comfort to John Bunyan ? 11. " Great is Truth and shall prevail " : whence is this saying derived ? 12. And " You- cannot touch pitch_ andnot be defiled " ?
13. What inscription frequent on War Memorials is derived from the Apocrypha ?
Answers will be found on page 1005.
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