Monday, Apr. 12, 1926
Quiz
Read TIME from cover to cover --the pages following this quiz as -well as those preceding. Then return to p. 33. Quiz yourself. Normal persons should answer correctly at least 20 questions. 1) What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY.) 5) Why did Colonel Mitchell fly 37 times in an hour? (See ARMY & NAVY.) 6) In what play did Alice Brady "thrust herself ahead of all other players, male and female, for the season"? (See THE THEATRE.) 7) Name Don Quixote's lady. (See MUEIC.)
8) Who "would not take an old one"? (See FRANCE.)
9) What color is an infuscate sailor? (See ITALY.)
10) How may an egg be utilized as an instrument of torture? (See FRANCE.)
11) Who owns more newspapers, Hearst or the Scripps-Howard group? (See THE PRESS.)
12) What U. S. song was heard in the House of Commons last week? (See COMMONWEALTH.)
13) How many negatives in the Decalog? (See THE PRESS.)
14) How did pious Mexicans observe Holy Saturday? (See LATIN AMERICA.)
15) "He stands a good chance of being crossed in love by his own eyes." Who? (See THE PRESS.)
16) Name at least one college that offers no U. S. literature course. (See EDUCATION.)
17) For whose granddaughter is Commander Byrd's pole-flight airplane named? (See SCIENCE.)
18) What church gained most new members in 1925? (See RELIGION.)
19) Name the biggest building in Detroit. (See BUSINESS.)
20) Five New England cities had no murders last year. Name any one of them. (See BUSINESS.)
21) Recite a poem about Cabots, Lowells, etc. (See MEDICINE.)
22) Who put coins in the holy water? (See RELIGION.)
23) At what price might a philatelist reasonably expect to sell letters mailed across the North Pole? (See SCIENCE.)
24) What Premier, famed for his pacific activities, said last week, "We cannot make peace."? (See FRANCE.)
25) Name one way in which a whale can commit suicide. (See MISCELLANY.)