HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 19

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 55, on which will be found the correct answers:

SUNDAY: Name the famous musi« cian who, arriving in Cologne just in time for a recital, found his luggage had miscarried and had to borrow the dress suit of a member of the orchestra before he could appear on the platform, MONDAY: In what piece (an amusing experiment in ragtime and named after a familiar grotesque doll), did a French composer wickedly insert a quotation from the -Prelude to Wagner’s "Tristan," marking it "to be plaged with great emotion ’’? TUESDAY: Which "Signature Tune" about the chirruping of the birdies in the sycamore tree was composed by a blind entertainer at the BBC? WEDNESDAY: Which author, son of a distinguished English painter, was named after a great Scottish artist, spent four years in a tea business, and then took to writing mystery thrillers? THURSDAY: Which artist disliked orchestral conductors, would beat time himself from the stage in the middle of an opera, and, at a rehearsal, once threw a chair at the man with the baton? FRIDAY: Which artist is alays conscious of any element in the audience not attuned to his playing, and in consequence suffers from a choking sensation and a pain at the back of the neck? SATURDAY: Which two lady entertainers (sisters), tour and broadcast with a band composed of their four brothers?