Relaxation

Albert Einstein of Princeton, N. J. sometimes relaxes by playing three-dimensional chess which requires a system of eight boards. Members of the American Astronomical Society, convened in Princeton last week, relaxed from their more abstruse preoccupations with a set of 14 "true-or-false" questions cooked up by a colleague. Scoring was on the basis of plus one for a correct answer, minus two for a wrong one. Highest score: 8. Sample questions:

The high jump record on the moon, if athletes could perform there with the same energy and efficiency as on the earth, would exceed 36 ft.*

If the moon were made of green cheese, and arithmetic were all; then, if 20 maids in 20 days can make 207 tons of cheese, 3,000,000 WPA workers in 100,000 years could not make half the moon./-

From an airplane 1,600 ft. high the dip of the sea horizon would be one-third of a degree.*

Excluding the sun, there is no star known nearer than three thousand million million million million Angstroms. (One Angstrom = .00000001 centimetre.)*

Given the date February 22, 1732, then (1) since 22 is three ?s with 1 over and (2), 17 is four 4's with 1 over, while 1 from 3 leaves half 4; and (3), 32 equals 4 times 8, while 32 plus 8 equals 40 or 5 times 7 plus 5; and (4), 3 corresponds to February in a leap-year--accordingly 1453 13 7 6--and February 22, 1732, was, therefore, a Friday./-

*False.
/-True.

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