Holly and Ivy

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 15

Holly and Ivy

STATION 1ZB’s new quiz session, "What Do You Know," is in full swing. Judging by the questions on the first two nights you have to know your way about to reach the top of the class. Their diversity presumes an education both classical and modern. Questions involving the major poets, race results, the sea, science, medicine and mines, followed one another with a startling eclecticism. ""This Above All’ is the title of a poem by Shakespeare," "a bilbo 1s a South American vegetable," "the Napier earthquake occurred on April 12, 1934," were some of the answers that failed to make the grade. The male contestants were completely eclipsed by Holly and Ivy, whose intelligence was equalled by their easy assurance before the microphone. Ivy was the first scorer in the quiz when she shawed she knew something about cochineal and went on to demonstrate her versatility by an almost surprising familiarity with the poet Pope. But it remained for her friend Holly to achieve almost a sensation in the eighth tough question with a ready knowledge of medicine. She was not troubled by neuritis, arthritis, bronchitis, or endocarditis, but while nerves, lungs, and heart stood the strain, she surely felt it in her bones that something was going wrong, and muscles failed. She went down with myositis.