The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-26
TWENTY CULTURE" QUESTIONS

4 short time ago, lecturer Al tpe
University of Chicago prOpounded to
his audience twenty questions, and de-
clared that any one who could answer
one.h half Of them correctly might con-
slider himself an educated person, whlie
any one who could answer in greater
ratio showed correspondingly HIS cml-
nent attainments and culture.
The questions given out by the lee
turer are not very hard; and yet, so
far as we have seen, few newspapers
have taken the trouble to go through
them and to give the answers in de-
tail Conspicuously, the Boston Globe
has taken this trouble, and we give
our readers the benefit of its statement
of the questions and of the answers
which it gives, assuring all concerned
that the answers are as faithful and
accurate as we could have made them
ourselves;
l. Name the Vice President Of the
United States.
sunny Jim; otherwise known as Hon,
James Sherman OF Utica, n. Y:
2. Name the Treasurer Of the United
States.
Lee McClung
>. Name the conductor Of the New
York Symphony Orchestra
Walter Damrosch.
4. Name the leader Of Tammany Hall.
Charles F. Murphy
S. Name your Congressman
William F. Murray, Ninth district. Mas
sachusetts. (For Utah, Joseph Howell OF
Logan,)
6 who is Hugo MunsterberE?
Professor Of psychology. one OF the nu-
merous OloEies taught at Harvard
T. Who was Christopher Wren?
Famous English architect OF the seven
teenth century and he was bird In his
business.
S. who was All Baba9
A character In The Arabian Nights
Entertainments in the story. "All Baba
and the Forty Thieves
2. What is the Pentateuch?
The first FIVE books Of the Bible.
10 What Is a selsinograph?
An instrument for recording the occur
renee and duration OF earthquakes.
II. What is a clovis?
but a U-shaped draft-iron, as at the
end OF a plough-heam.
IT, Give the number Of United States
Supreme Court justices.
Nine when the bench is full; one va
cancy at present.
49, Name FIVE Of the justices of the
United States Supreme Court.
Edward u. White OF Louisiana (chief
justicel. oliver W. Holmes OF Massachu-
Htxlx
Lurton OF Tennessee, Charles E. Hughes
OF New York
a. Who said. ''Tho child is father of
Wordsworth; he was some poet
10. Who said, The groves were Gods
first temples. ?"
William Cullen Bryant
IS Who said. "once more unto the
breach. dear friends. once more?"
King Henry W"
H. Who was Mommsen?
A German historian. who wrote Roman
history. ..
~ WHIP Is presiden, OF the Lake Shore
william C@Brown. also president of,the
New York Central
l., WHAT ls tho fourth city in size in
III. United Sta,es7
Metropolitan BOSTON, with n population
Of nearly l,500.Ono-and don't let any
champion of 81. Louis dare 20 dispute IL.
CPut the census o: 1910 says ST. Louis
with esT.02S inhabitants: Boston's added
population having been gained By annex
Ing suburbs since the census was taken,)
%. What IS proposition?
The part o! speech that denotes the
rslauon OF an object TO an action or
eatns: so called because usually placed
oefo-o It's object.
Governor Foss proposes 10 make
Boston a mighty metropolis by merging
n number Of cities and towns near by,
in the city, making It comprise a million