HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
ERE are seven questions, one for each day of the coming week, and bearing on some item in one'or other of that day’s programmes which appear in this issue of The Listener. You can check up your solutions by referring to page 30, on which will be found the correct answers. SUNDAY: What — popular _ singer taught the piano at a Franciscan convent when she was fifteen? MONDAY: What famous song was composed by a South Sea island queen,
| who was forced to abdicate after a short reign’ of two years? TUESDAY: A now celebrated comedian. came of what was described as a "very Nonconformist family." He made his stage debut in an operetta for a
local temperance Society in a little Yorke shire town. Who is he? WEDNESDAY: What is the profes sional name and calling of Gerald Bright, composer of " Lady of Spain"? THURSDAY: Which famous singer had his suitcase stolen.en route to Bedford (John Bunyan’s home town), and had to sing the bass solos in Haydn’s "Creation" in plus fours? FRIDAY: Name the musician whose hobbies are walking, swimming and the study of languages. SATURDAY: Which now worlde famed composer once. visited New Zea land as solo violinist with Madame Albani, and later composed a song that sold by the million and is scheduled in one of to-day’s programmes? ‘' "
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 23
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226HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 23
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