General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Students of the Knutsford Test School, Hawarden, Chester.

Questions on Rats in Literature

1. Of what ship was it said, The very rats instinctively have quit it."

2. In what book does a rat row a boat ?

3. Who asked a prophet to curse the rats of a certain nation ?

4. Who undertook to resemble a tailless rat ?

5. Who killed a man under pretence of killing a rat ?

6. In what story does a black rat carry on a conversation with a grey cat ?

7. Who said that rats would gnaw iron in certain circumstances ?

8. What fairourite of what king was called " The Rat " ?

9. In what story does a rat release a prisoner ?

10. What people used to believe that rats could be rhymed to death ?

11. Who described pirates as water rats ?

12. In what pOem do rats gnaw a picture out of the frame ?

13. In what poem do we find mention of rats boring through tykes and so letting the water " Down upon the far-off cities while they dance Or dream " ?

Answers will be found on page 526: