Posers at Eton

P:Who died of a surfeit of lampreys?

P:Who or what was called the Seagreen

Incorruptible?

P:What is the usual name for a female

salmon after spawning?

P:Which of Jacob's sons was a "hind let

loose?''

P:Where is the tomb of Theodoric the

Ostrogoth?

P:What does the abbreviation ELAS

stand for?

P:Whose horse was Bucephalus?

P:Who painted "Pinkie?"

CJ In how many seconds does sound travel

a mile?

P:n-which constellation is Betelgeuse?

Who killed Cock Robin?*

These are some of the 200 questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest got as low as 6%.

Sole purpose of the quiz (an annual affair is to stimulate interest; no grades are based on it. Says Master Oliver Vanoff: "I often have to use a dictionary myself when I set the paper."

*Answers: Henry I of England, Robespierre, shedder, Naphtali, Ravenna,-Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (National Popular Liberation Army), Alexander the Great, Sir Thomas Lawrence, nearly five, Orion, the sparrow.

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