How Much Do You Know?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 19

How Much Do You Know?

rs ERE are seven questions, H one for each day of the, coming week and bearing, on some item in one or other of | that day’s programmes appearing in this issue of The Listener. You | can check up your solutions by re- | | ferring to page 38, on which appear | the seven correct answers: SUNDAY: Which Christmas Carol was written by an Irish writer who became England’s Poet Laureate, and wrote only one notable original poem, "Panacea or a Poem on Tea"? MONDAY: Which artist, through his place of birth, seerned to have been fated to become a broadcast star?

TUESDAY: | Who was it, as a child, and dying to | go on thé stage, sang outside an actors’ | boarding-house to try to attract some- | one’s attention, failed, and had to go into a factory? WEDNESDAY: What famous singer was in 1927 a boy-immigrant to New Zealand, unhap- | pily employed on a North Island dairyfarm, and re-visited us in 1938 on a broadcasting tour? THURSDAY: What celebrated character in musical comedy worked in a department store, loved a youth whom she took to be a hard-working bank clerk, and was indignant when he, with the most honourable intentions, revealed himself to be a noble j lord? FRIDAY: Which twelve-line poem was inspired whilst its author, a journalist and lecturet, was travelling to the office in the spring of 1913, and, after its author's death in battle in the Great War, gained universal popularity when set to music? SATURDAY: What eighteenth century song has now become the accepted Devonshire song, and was played at a march by the Devon Volunteers’ Band?