HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
ERE are seven questions, one H 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. 2 SUNDAY: Which artist made a reputation on the vaudeville stage, was heard by Caruso, and before she was twenty-one made her operatic debut in "The Force of Destiny," opposite Caruso?
MONDAY: Which song percolated into nearly every home in England last century, but brought its composer only £5, plus a: publisher’s bonus of £20?
TUESDAY: Which noted Australian actress and singer, before leaving for London, was the cause of a petition from three thousand theatre-goers pleading for her retention in Australia? WEDNESDAY: Which famous German musician condemns the foolish, obstinately long-lived prejudice in Germany that the English are unmusical? THURSDAY: Which march was named after two French rivers-one a tributary of the other-which figured in the first important battle of the Great War? FRIDAY: What famous American performer in his youth spent most of his, time in a job in a shoe factory, practising the ukulele instead of worke ing, and so incensed the foreman that his instrument was smashed and he got the sack? SATURDAY: What song was written as an answer to "Barney, Take Me Home Again"?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 27
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238HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 27
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