RADIO QUIZ WON BY AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 15

RADIO QUIZ WON BY AUSTRALIA

N 2YA’s studio the other evening general knowledge came to the boil and spilled over. Four New Zealanders selected from leaders in quiz talent pitted their wits against an Australian team by radio-telephone in an Empire intelligence test. They were defeated by 12 points to 10, but one member of the New Zealand team, E. R. Dearniey, gave the correct answer to every question put to him. It was the first of four contests with Australia opposing New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain and South Africa, all part of the Australian Government’s campaign of publicity for its fifth Security Loan, which opened last Wednesday. The judges were A. R. Cutler (Australian High Commissioner in New Zealand), Professor Ian Gordon (Vice-. Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, and Professor of English at Victoria University College), and . Professor F. L. W. Wood (Professor of History, Victoria University College). The quiz-master was William Yates and the announcer Selwyn Toogood. Walter Pym was Australia’s announcer, located with his team in Sydney. The radio-telephone hook-up between New Zealand and Australia was arranged so that neither team could secure an advantage by hearing the other questioned. Each team was asked the same 24 questions in six rounds of four. New Zealand was questioned first, each member of the team being asked one question in turn; then the same four questions were put to the Australians. New Zealand’s team consisted of S. Edgar Craig, school-teacher, of Auckland; E. R. Dearnley, civil servant, of Wellington; J. B. Mora, schoolteacher, of Christchurch; and D. P. Wallace, university student, of Dunedin. The Australians were S. Robertson, consulting engineer, of Melbourne; G. ©. Morris, signwriter, of Melbourne; G. Bohman, school-teacher, of Sydney; and A. J. Blake, school-teacher, of Adelaide, Broadcasts of the quiz were heard from the YA stations and Stations 2YH and 3ZR on April 6, and from the ZB stations and Station 2ZA on April 11. The Questions Here are the questions. Readers who did not hear the broadcast may test their own general knowledge. The answers will be found on page 33: _ (1) We call a period of 100 years a century, and a period of 10 years a decade; what is the name for a period of five years? (2) Of whom was it said that he was "the wisest fool in Christendom’? (3) In what half of which century was Samuel Pepys’ Diary first deciphered / and published? (4) What is the purpose of a corbel in architecture? (5) Where is to be found any one of the following buildings associated with the history of art-The Prado, The Hermitage, The Erechtheion? (6) Whence do we get the verb "to meander"? z (7) Some countries in the Americas -in North and South America taken

together-have no seaboard. Can you | name them? (8) What period of time was indicated by the term Olympiad? (9). It is well known that the chief languages spoken in Switzerland are German, Italian and’ French. In one canton another language is widely spoken. What is that language? (10) How was the name Venezuela derived?

(11) What is the latest date on which Easter Day can fall? . | (12) Who is credited with having been the first man to use a baton to conduct an orchestral concert in London? (13) What relation is the Duke of Kent to the Earl of Harewood? (14) Shakespeare and Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, died on the same date but not on the same day. How did this come about? (15) What two artists working together for a time were known as a Beggarstaff Brothers? (16) Where and what is the Potala? (17) What is a writer to the Signet? (18) Aldous Huxley gives the title Brave New World to one of his books. These words were taken from a play; by whom are they spoken? (19) What is the phenomenon called the Spectre of the Brocken? (20) If you lived in the Western Hemisphere, between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, and were accustomed to seeing the sun rise out of the sea, but never saw it set in the sea, what language would you hear most commonly spoken? (21) Who wrote the words of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s composition The Lost Chord? (22) The capitals of two member States of the United Nations perpetuate the names of Presidents of the United States of America. Washington is one; what is the other? (23) Apart from his plays, name one piece of prose which we have which was written by Shakespeare for publication? (24) In the 17th Century Japan denied entry to all foreign traders except those of China and of one other nation. What was the other nation?