THE GIRL’S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPETITION.

The sixth and last instalment of questions in this instructive Competition is given below. Full details as to prizes and certificates of merit appeared on page 14.

Questions 61-72.

61. Is what is known as the poisonous upas tree of Java a fact or a hoax?

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62. What is the best way of treating a fainting fit?

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63. What public punishment was once in use in England for scolding women?

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64. What was the origin of the phrase “The Wise Fools of Gotham?”

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65. Is length of life greater now than it used to be?

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66. Of what literary work has it been said that it is “perhaps the only book about which the educated minority has come over to the opinion of the common people?”

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67. Who was the young Fellow of Oxford who, during the latter half of last century, eloped with a banker’s daughter and came in the end to be Lord Chancellor of England?

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68. What plant was introduced early in the seventeenth century into this country as an ornamental plant but is now a favourite vegetable?

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69. Who was the father of English Cathedral music?

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70. What may fairly claim to be the greatest work of imagination in the world?

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71. What Scottish sovereign, looking out of the window of the prison in which he was once confined, caught sight for the first time of the lady whom he afterwards married?

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72. How many different kinds of clouds may be seen floating in the sky?

The answers to the above questions, Nos. 61-72, together with the answers to questions 49-60, which appeared on page 135, must be sent in on or before February 24, 1899.

Address to The Editor, The Girl’s Own Paper Office, 56, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., and at the left-hand top corner of the envelope or wrapper write the words “Questions Competition.”

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