Game No. 1

There is no significance to the following eight QUIZZ games.

But they inform, amuse, excite.

Invite your shrewdest friends.

Equip them with pencils, with paper.

Appoint a Quizzer and Umpire and Timekeeper.

The Quizzer. It is the Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed:

The Umpire. It is the Umpire's function to settle disputes, to give or withhold credit for this or that answer. The Umpire is omnipotent and is empowered to banish people from the house, if necessary.

The Timekeeper. He holds a regulation stopwatch and cries out to the Quizzer when 15 seconds have elapsed (the legal time limit between questions).

Who will be champion at your house? Champion is determined not by the total number of questions answered correctly, but by the GREATEST NUMBER OF GAMES WON. In the event of a tie between two or more persons, these persons will compare their scores game by game, to learn which of them answered the greatest number of questions. If they are still tied, they will settle the matter as becomes ladies and gentlemen.*

GAME No. 1

1) What animal did Balaam smite cruelly?

2) With what automobile does an intelligent man associate the numbers 50-60-70-80?

3) What flower (not a gardenia or a lily-of-valley) may a high-grade bridegroom wear in buttonhole?

4) What onetime Chicago horsecar conductor writes notable fiction in Norway?

5) What onetime third assistant barkeeper in Manhattan now writes notable verse in England?

6) What degree of relationship existed between most of the Egyptian Pharoahs and their queens before marriage?

7) What act of mayhem did the farmer's wife commit on three mice?

8) Who is this:

9) Who stamped yellow fever out of the Panama Canal Zone?

10) What adjective is popularly applied to Happy Hooligan's brother, Gus?

11) What U. S. poet (now dead) married a consumptive girl of 13?

12) What does Ish kabibble mean in English?

13) Who said: "Don't give up the ship!"

14) What did Father William threaten to do to the young man who asked him so many questions?

15) What stables did Hercules clean out?

16) Oscar Wilde notoriously preferred carnations of what color?

17) What must a Boy Scout do every day?

18) Who is author of the phrase "cabbages and kings?"

19) In what general direction do you travel in going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal?

20) To what prominent Mohammedan was the "original" Fatima related by blood?

21) The wife of what French Premier murdered an editor in 1914?

22) In what part of the body is the bile secreted?

23) What is a Percheron?

24) For what might King Arthur have sued Sir Lancelot?

25) For how many years did the Children of Israel wander about before they reached the Promised Land?

*Lady and a gentleman tied, gentleman will discover a mistake in his score, withdraw. Two ladies tied will "draw lots." Two gentlemen will dice. Two boors, louts bounders will duel with fists or canes.