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New York Times Offers Another Group of Questions and Answers to Arouse an Interest in Current Event Topics

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In this article will be found another monthly set of questions and answers issued by the New York Times to arouse interest in its Current Events contest occurring in March. The answers are given on the back page.

QUESTIONS

I. Answer the following in a word or phrase:

1. Who is the newly appointed Senator from Arkansas?

2. What recently elected Mayor once led an army of unemployed on Washington?

3. What well-known radio character was created by Phillips H. Lord?

4. What noted actress has returned to the stage in a Shakespearean role?

5. Who is the Dean of St. Pauls, London?

6. What American formerly ambassador to two great nations urges limitation of armament?

7. Who is the well-known prisoner in whose behalf Mayor Walker is active?

II. Identify the following, indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser.

III. Indicate which one of the following "multiple choice" answers is correct in each case:

1. Nizam--German Fascist, Indian Ruler, Russian City famed for fairs, African dam.

2. Glen Warner--patent medicine manufacturer, veteran football coach, moving-picture producer, brother-in-law of the Vice-President.

3. Leonids--artistic dancers, species of leopard in Central Asia, members of a Swedish youth cult, meteors.

ANSWERS

I.

1. Mrs. Hattic Caraway.

2. Jacob S. Coxey.

3. Seth Parker.

4. Maude Adams.

5. William Ralph Inge.

6. Alanson B. Houghton.

7. Thomas Mooney.

II.

1. Former leader of Tammany, under investigation by the New York legislative committee.

2. Senator from California, attacking the President and his policies.

3. Director of the Federal Prohibition Bureau Plans for enforcement.

4. Seeking a Cuban divorce from the former Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati.

5. Sculptress, founder of a museum of American Art.

6. The title of Philip Snowden, Lord Privy Seal in the British Cabinet.

7. The commoner wife of Prince Nicholas of Roumania.

8. Capital of Manchuria and storm center of Sino-Japanese difficulties.

9. Governor of Maryland, candidate for Democratic presidential nomination.

10. Novelist, indicted in Kentucky for syndicalism.

III.

1. Indian Ruler.

2. Veteran football coach.

3. Meteors

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