The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-23
QUESTIONS FOR
 BOYS, GIRLS IN .'
 SCHOOL TESTS
5O,00O Trying to Answer Them This Week to Win
 One of Prizes

New 4Ork, AprN Z3-(UP)- What was the name of the AAA counsel who was busted from office?
 Who descended into the ocean to Q depth of 302S feet?
 Was the young American who conducted the New York Philhar- monic Orchestra for the first time Ychudi Menuhin? Or Eugene Or mandy? Or Werner Jansen?
 Who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, and who is the Presi- dent of Uruguay.
 Are "Baby Bonds" the Canadian governments endowment for the Dionne babies? Was Bruno Haupt- mann convicted of extorting $50,- 900 from Colonel Lindbergh?
 And how's your nose for news
 Those questions, except the last are merely samples, d few of tlc easier samples, of the 100 qucs tions on current events which 5O,O00 school boys and girls are answering this week in an attempt to win one of the high school magazine 'scholastic's" trips te Washington.
 Nose for News
 The questions, designed to test the students nose for news, the:l knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs and their recollection o1 personalities in the news columns of the day, were divided into six parts.
 Under national affairs, they were asked to indicate the truth M falsity of such statements as these:
 Clarence Darrow approves tho MIRA because 1t has helped the small business man."
 "The Ward Line was fined $100.- 900 for negligence in the Morro Castle disaster"
 Under economics and politics the students had to fill the balnks in such statements as: "A national grocery chain whose labor troubles caused 1t to close ati It's stores n............ Is the
  "Of the retail price Of a quart of milk, a larger percentage goes to I the .... .'.. than to the ......' Choose Right Actor After that, the student was re. auested to choose between Frark Lawton, Wallace Beery, w. C. Fields and Charles Laughton, as the actor who played the part 0: Cicamber In David Copperheld, And to tell whether Virginia Woolf or Gertrude Stein wrote '"The Au- tobiography of Alice E. Toklas." Was 1t Horace Mann or Henry s. Canby, or perhaps William IT. McGuffey who compiled series of school readers which had wide influence two generations ago?"
 Under the heading: "Name the Following" they were required tc give the surnames of such person. ages as the Shah of Iran, tkt youngest United States senator and the president of the London coun. | ty council.
 The fifth and sixth sections oi the test were devoted to foreign affairs. The inqulsitors wanted tt know why the Saar was returned to Germany, and what the Britir'l White Paper of March, 1885, had to say.
 Cuban War Minister The test gave the students three names fran which to select the Cuban minister of war. The names were Ramon Grau San Mar. tin, Forestes Ferrara, and Fulgen. | cio Batista. The boys and girls were supposed to check Batista The boys and girls were supposed to check Batista. They would have been wrong, because the minister of war of Cuba Is Carlos De La Rionda.
 After answering 30 similar ques- tions, all the students had to do was to write an essay of from 20N to 500 words on some such subject as "How Can America Keep Gu, of a European War;" of "The Flu ture of Fascism."