Quiz: Sep. 27, 1926

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1) Who gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain at 5:45 a. m.? (P. 5.)

2) What gentleman's name, when downside up, read identically as when upside up? (P. 2.)

3) What two Italians (fish pedler and factory worker) have caused an "international episode"? (P. 6.)

4) What famed Manhattan cartoonist drew Rudyard Kipling with his thumb in a disgraceful position? (P. 10.)

5) Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer? (P. 26.)

6) What Frenchman defeated what other Frenchman in the finals of the U. S. tennis singles championship last week? (P. 26.)

7) What advertising man, who tries to make the Bible and Jesus understandable to everybody, was the last guest at White Pine Camp? (P. 5.)

8) What nickel weekly is publishing the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? (P. 33.)

9) Whom did Mabel Normand marry at 3:00 a. m.? (P. 34.)

10) What Cabinet officer protects the prudent housekeeper from "scrapple," "brawn," "souse," etc.? (P. 5.)

11) What five nations hold permanent seats on the council of the League of Nations? (P. 8.)

12) What did "Eskimo" Abie Bromfield say of Manhattan women? (P. 20.)

13) What' 78-year-old "literally bounded in and out" of Consolidated Cigar Corporation meetings recently? (P. 30.)

14) Who killed the New York Herald? How? (P. 2.)

15) What famed Huckleberry Finn method of finding a drowned person was employed successfully last week? (P. 22.)

16) What New York morning newspaper is preferred by subscribers of the paragraphic New York Evening Graphic? (P. 22.)

17) In what American republic did the president ring a Liberty Bell last week? (P. 14.)

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