Issue Number:23

Date: 01/13/1934

p. 02 and 05, c. 01 and 03

Do You Know This One?

Thomas J. Sellers

1. How many Negroes are there in the United States, according to the last census?
2. Who is the President of Siberia?
3. Who is Dr. Robert R. Moton?
4. What famous poem deals chiefly with an aged sailor and an Albatross?
5. What is Malthusianism?
6. What are where is Wall Street?
7. Who wrote Thanatopsis, and what is the meaning of the word?
8. Give the line following: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord".
9. Who was Goethe?
10. What is a scenario?

The questions presented this week take in a wide range of subjects, but should be familiar in their above simple form to the average reader. Most of the questions were submitted this week by some of our readers. (Editor's Note.)

Answers 1. There are 14,000,000 Negroes in the United States.
2. President Barclay.
3. President of Tuskegee college for Negroes and famous Negro author.
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
5. The contention of Malthus that population increases faster than subsistence, therefore can be made to do, and that poverty is, for that reason, inevitable.
6. The street in New York City on which so many financial transactions in stocks and bonds take place.
7. William Cullen Bryant: The name means from the Greek, "a meditation on death."
8. "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored". From the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
9. One of the most famous of German poets and writers (1749-1832)
10. The form in which a movie is written for the guidance of directors and actors.

NOTE: The answers are not offered as strict text book material and may vary a little from authority on minor detail. The answers are given in the most simple and condensed form for the benefit of busy readers that may not have the time to pore over long and tedious volumes.