Substitute Questions

Perhaps one of the people whom you invite to your QUIZZ party is afflicted with St. Vitus dance. Perhaps he or she is sensitive about it. Perhaps one of the questions in the eight games above listed: "What dance is named after a saint?" Under these circumstances, it would be tactful of you to withdraw the St. Vitus question and substitute one of the following questions in its place. Be tactful. Hand the QUIZZER an advance list of your guests and let him,, prudent, "check" the questions against this guest-list and make substitutions. Here are some substitute or "reserve" questions:

00) What Roman deity was alleged by the Vestal Rhea Silvia to have been the father of her twin sons, Romulus and Remus?

ANSWER: Mars.

00) Who was the heroine in one of George Bernard Shaw's plays who first shocked the sensibilities of English theatre-goers by the promiscuous use of the word "bloody"?

ANSWER: Eliza Doolittle.

00) What famous English churchman and satirist went mad shortly after he had predicted that he would die at the top first, like an oak?

ANSWER: Dean Swift.

00) What common acid is present in small quantities in the human stomach?

ANSWER: Hydrochloric acid.

00) What Australian bird resembles in coloring the old-time uniform of the rifle-regiments of the British Army?

ANSWER: The Rifleman-bird.

00) What is a Martini-Henry?

ANSWER: A rifle. (An early type of breech-loading gun adopted by the British Army in 1871.)

00) The virginity of what English queen is celebrated in the name of the State Virginia?

ANSWER : Queen Elizabeth.

00) By what French name is the Indian "pipe of peace" generally known?

ANSWER: Calumet. (A reed.)