HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 27

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: Which musician swam the whole breadth of Lake Maggiore (three miles at this particular spot), maintained in his steady rhythm by the Strains of a gramophone in a boat before him? MONDAY: What noted vocalist, who has twice toured New Zealand for the NBS abandoned a musical career to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood? TUESDAY: Name the instrumentalist whose fame dates from her " swing " from the "classics" to jazz? WEDNESDAY: Which famous instrue mental piece was the result of a wager that its composer could write a dance indistinguishable from one by Mozart? THURSDAY: During the run of a Gile bert and Sullivan opera a split in the partnership occurred, being caused through a row about a new carpet for the Savoy Theatre. Which opera was it? FRIDAY: What is the original name of the popular song which arranged as a duet, is called "Life’s Dream is O’er"? SATURDAY: Which two American radio artists altered the time of their regular broadcast to an hour later and thereby drew more than a quarter of a million letters of protest from ‘parents who complained that their children would not go to bed until they had heard the turn?