QUESTIONNAIRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1938, Page 11

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. —The great Chicago fire was started by: (a) a flaming meteorite which crashed into the roof of the old Palmer House; (b) overzealous Boy Scouts who were demonstrating how to make a fire by rubbing dry sticks together; (c) a cow which kicked over a lamp in a barn. 2. —“ The Patch,” noted in the history of a big American city referred to; (a) a dance originated in New Orleans;

(b) repairs in the trousers of Boss Tweed, oldtime Tammany chieftain in New York; (c) a tough district in Chicago. 3. —The three largest American cities are, in respective order: (a) New York, San Francisco and Chicago; (b) New York, Detroit and Boston; (c) New York. Chicago and Philadelphia. 4. —The largest railway centre in the world is: (a) New York; (b) London, England; (c) Chicago.

5. —The city which inspired the most popular blues song ever written, is: (a) St. Louis; (b) Washington; (c) Chicago. 6. —Which of these cities is farther west than the other: (a) Charleston, on the Atlantic coast, or Balboa, on the Pacific Coast; (b) Nome, Alaska, or Reno, Nevada; (c) Milwaukee or Chicago.

7.—Chicago’s original name was: (a) Fort Pitt; (b) Illinois; (c) Huron; (d) Fort Dearborn.

8. —Chicago is famous for one of the following “yards”: . (a) stock yards; (b) front yards; (c) halyards. 9. Within 10,000, the number of people made homeless by the great Chicago fire was: (a) 20,000; (b) 75,000; (c) 100,000. 10. —The most dramatic fire in recent years occurred not on the ground, but in the sky over one of these cities: (a) Akron, Ohio; <b) Lakehurst, New Jersey; (c) Chicago, Illinois. 11. —The Holland Tunnel connects ,two of these cities: (a) Antwerp and

Rotterdam; (b) New York and Jersey City; (c) Milwaukee and Chicago.

12. —Two of these cities are situated on the shore"' of Lake Michigan: (a) Milwaukee and Chicago; (b) Detroit and Toledo; (c) Ann Arbor and Cleveland.

Banking is Hollywood's foremost profession, with more bankers per square inch than in any other area in the world. The fact was disclosed when 14 actors were required for a bank-board of directors in “StandIn,” new Walter Wanger production starring Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell. Casting offices disclosed that more than 500 '“bankers” were available for the roles. Virtually every character actor in Hollywood listed “banker” at the very top of the type of roles he was qualified to play. Of those selected, not one had ever worked in a bank.