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 in 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 composition was supposedly written for a picnic on the river Thames taken by one of the kings of England, the orchestra being accommodated on a barge which followed the Royal boat? MONDAY: What musical piece is named after the son of a Greek god, who,
falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, and finding he cannot draw his reflection from the water for a playmate, dies of grief? TUESDAY: In which opera does the heroine act the part of a dumb girl (by dance and pantomime), and comes to a tragic end by throwing herself into a torrent of lava cast up by an eruption of Vesuvius? WEDNESDAY: What famous Irish ballad is sung in a foreign opera by the prima donna as a means of fascinating the hero?
THURSDAY: Which famous detective story was written by a Dunedin barrister in 1887, provoked a host of imitations, was translated into. many languages, and earned its author worldwide fame? FRIDAY: Which famous Scottish song concerns Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald? SATURDAY: In what famous Italian opera were certain catchy tunes kept out of rehearsals lest the populace get hold of them before opening night?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 15
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258HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 15
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