Monday, Jul. 05, 1926
Read TIME from cover to cover, omitting pages 30 and 31. Return to these pages, quiz yourself. He who correctly answers 20 of more of the questions, does well.
1) For what affront, quite comprehensible to Frenchmen, did one Berthelin skewer one Davillard? (P. 13.)
2) Why are "old men's revolutions" especially practicable in Spain? (P. 14.)
3) What opened "in George Pratt's old tobacco barn"? (P. 10.)
4) Where was the statement made: "Uncle Sam would never let the Bolshevist twist his tail"? (P. 11.)
5) What American poet demanded and secured emeralds for his golden laurel crown? (P. 13.)
6) What American cabinet was overthrown last week by one ballot?
(P. 11.)
7) Who is the hero of a Hutchinson, Kan., wheatfield? (P. 10.)
8) What language does the President desire his son to study? (P. 5.)
9) What great man was said to have got his start by inserting a classified ad? (P. 22.)
10) What composer did Wagner say only Germans love? (P. 18.)
11) What town do the French bombard almost nightly? (P. 13.)
12) Why was Sing Sing crammed like a seaside hotel? (P. 8.)
13) For how many weeks has the garmentworkers' strike gone on at Passaic, N. J.? (P. 7.)
14) Who once became a premier when an airplane killed his rival? (P. 12.)
15) What dollar was "undoubtedly the daddy of them all?" (P. 2.)
16) What was suggested to lure sporting young peers into the House of Lords? (P. 11.)
17) Whose scientific dream dwarfs Jules Verne? (P. 20.)
18) How old is the Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corp. ? (P. 26.)
19) Who has a dreadnaught high and dry on his lawn? (P. 13.)
20) What invitation gave Phidias a good excuse to leave Athens? (P. 17.)
21) Where was a bond salesman nominated for Congress? (P. 10.)
22) Who said, "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple"? (P. 31.)
23) What "disinterred casket sank to its disordered bed"? (P. 8.)
24) When Dr. McGovern walked on blazing coals, what saved his feet? (P. 25.)
25) Approximately how much have dry propagandists "invested" in Prohibition? (P. 9.)