HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 27

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

os 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 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 opera takes its name from the daughter of a fanatical Brahmin priest, and centres round his hatred of the English invaders of India? MONDAY: Which piece of music is named after and based on the personality of a knight, gentleman, and soldier come to "a green old age, mellow, frank, gay, easy, corpulent, loose, unprincipled and luxurious "? iy '

TUESDAY: In what opera did an Irish tenor, Michael Kelly, make a big hit on the first night by doubling two parts, including that of a stuttering old judge? WEDNESDAY: Who was the artist, who, on being refused a fee of £4,000 to make a record of " Tipperary," agreed to payment on a percentage on, sales of the record and is said to have netted £50,000 as his share? THURSDAY: What great musician once publicly embraced Sir Henry Wood and told those present, "This is the man who has taught me everything"? FRIDAY: What is the professional name of Florence Fawaz, who owed her "big chafce" at Covent Garden to the late Sir Landon Ronald? SATURDAY: What broadcasting and recording artist spends his spare time riding on horseback "on Ilkla Moor *baht ’at" (on Ilkley Moor without a hat)?