Crossquiz

(Solution on page 99)

Across

1. —Of what country is Baghdad the capital? 3. —What was the surname of the author of "The Compleat Angler"? 7. —Who composed the music for "Rud digore"? 8. —What system of weights is used for gold, silver and precious stones? 9. —What is the term for the fluid rock ejected from a volcano in eruption? 10. —Which American president proclaimed the emancipation of the negroes? 12. —What is the largest lake in the British Isles? 14. —The name of which district in ancient Greece is now used to denote an idealised country of primitive things? 16. —"Not by alone doth man live"? 18. —What dance would you expect to

see performed in Honolulu? 21. —Which English poet wrote "Songs of Innocence"? 22. —Which pleasure resort of the ancient Romans was buried in an eruption of Vesuvius? 24. —Which contemporary composer wrote the opera "Peter Grimes"? 25. —What is the French word for "thank you"?

Down

1. —A deficiency of what hormone causes diabetes? 2. —What term is applied to gold that is deposited by water? 3. —Who was Viceroy of India from 1943-1947? 4. What Russian city was previously called St. Petersburg and Petrograd? 5. —What practitioner vyould try to heal by manipulation of the spinal and other

joints? 6.—Where is the Tycho crater situated? 11.—Which Ita'ian violinist of the 19th Century is now almost legendary for his technical feats? 13. —Who composed the music for “Naughty Marietta"? 15.—What term used to be applied to an Englishman who re turned home after ac quiring wealth in India? 17. —Like what kind of leaf is a person sometimes wont to shake? 19. —By what name were the three Wise Men from the East known? 20. —What title is given to the officer who leads the devotions in Mohammedan mosques? 23. —Where would you find a tympanc membrane?