Monday, Mar. 08, 1926
Read TIME from cover to cover, omitting this page. Return to this page, quiz yourself. He who correctly answers 20 or more of the questions, does well.
1) After the tax reduction bill was finally passed last week by the House and Senate, it had to be signed by three important officers. Who were they?
2) Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon has been called the "Aluminum King" because of his interest in the Aluminum Co. of America. What per cent of the stock of that corporation was the Senate told that Mr. Mellon owned?
3) What is the only high post in the U. S. diplomatic service to which a Negro is customarily appointed?
4) What university will have "no more Freshman or Sophomore courses"?
5) What liberal-handed millionaire is doing what he can to alleviate the shortage of captive wild animals?
6) There are four widows of Presidents now living. Name them.
7) Why did London editors refer to Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain as "Monsieur"?
8) In Dayton, Ohio, is a famed private museum. Describe its contents.
9) Why was Liberty magazine barred from Canada?
10) Englishmen rescued Mumtaz Begum from the ruffians of the Maharaja. With what were these Englishmen armed?
11) Of what color are the eyes of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka's typical "Old American"?
12) La Boheme has been cinematized. What disease does away with the heroine?
13) At Paris a long expected debt conference got under way. What two nations participated?
14) What procedure does the President follow in taking a lady (other than his wife) out to dinner?
15) How many varieties of pickle does Heinz actually make?
16) Senator Simmons almost burned the back of the President's neck. What was the President doing at that time?
17) "His parents are up all night worrying about his night life." Of whom did Congressman Celler talk? 18) Chief Justice Taft attended the funeral of a Negro. What Negro?
19) Describe a single striking physical characteristic of the new middleweight champion of the world.
20) Name the fictitious Cabinet member in Drinkwater's Lincoln?
21) Why did Champion Tilden race and chase in taxi cabs?
22) "Fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female." To what great organization of U. S. men does this apply?
23) What great advertising agency came out against the Harvard Advertising Awards? 24) What phrase earned Florist O'Keefe of Boston a gold medal?
25) How many vacancies in the sacred college of cardinals?