Show alft er a te aate s too 01 17 44 jw 1 VI A 4 the Z c answer 11 A h 7 nj Y to QUIZ 0 of P Q answers A 4 gr ps 7 et zd ka ask al N 46 16 A 40 P wha es the I 1 nother billor itt 4 xa guess answer M I 1 to u al r ar 10 1 I at t 0 4 A ad jr STIO ss OD aft 4 7 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON r T do sir mr american much rood good to hud find out what was wag a three letter word meaning A species of ox found in ili central asia N P or mother another three letter word meaning an ar arctic divine bird now ext extinct inet because no sooner lied had lie enlarged ills his vocabulary to un nf proportions la in his efforts ts to solve the crossword cross word puzzle than llian along came this ask me 1 ann another ther craze to torment tonii ent his mind with its impudent demand for a type of ft information lie had never called upon to furnish before and to make him realize just how little he be did know and how bow uncertain lie was about alint aliat lie he thought lie know knew of vourse course lie still Is working crossword cross word worl puzzles but lip lie Is iq not net doing it so as lie he once did just now lie Is 19 pretty much occupied wit with h ia kli know nw the art an awer N now ow ask one quiz ask me another what do dd YOU know ond and questions since inee tile lie questions and answers pame ganie Is the elie fad of the hour it la 13 enough to ask a question or two about the fad itself how flow did it start when will it end why in do they in do it what Is its value although there are probably as many answers to these questions as there are re persons who would atter attempt vilt to anam ansar r them as good a guess as any lq 1 that this his whole hole business of interrogation started wit when an psychology gave to the world the intelligence test and out of that product of fit the scientific laboratory developed this popular and nationwide nation wide indoor and outdoor sport hot but the commercializing commercial izing of it lid did not come coine about until two graduates of amherst Arnber Am herit ht college luceen ety and began visiting asking each ther another as a time killer while they were n are around in new york out lit of a job they were t the he first to sop e the ali commercial of a hook book of questions and atis answers vers and how good cooil their cui was 14 by tle fact that they have already received royalties on oil nearly two hundred thousand copies of their book whan lin will it end there la is just on answer to that ask sie me an ct iler why do they do it since the psychologists started this at thing hing let thein hin answer r that question it front from the fag and fatigue of modern lit it Is imply a new form of if sai one it Is a product of jim maloney tile the heavyweight ant battler battier has baken to literature tunney fenis to have set bet a vogue for the bis big elam sandbox interests frosty peters peters 0 of et r football e fame bt at the university of illinois lins has abandoned baseball in favor fit or of track and lii is and throwing the jit kittelin infielder andy cohen Colie ii the new yolk yoi k Cian lit with wilh nil ronalo fralo Is it i tremendous punch with tho the bat und his in the field ims has also been of tile hie highest order the MA machine CIline nee age man alan Is 13 merely lir in venting ways to exercise ills his mind says another tile craze Is perfectly batul natural at and as 0 alil ld as the oldest ganies says still a third it Is not a higher but a broader form of mental activity than the crossword cross word puzzle tile the pursuit factor the desire of the hunter to achieve a certain end Is perhaps not so strong but many of the books help to supply this by giving the rating of some celebrity as a mark for us to shoot at As for the value of the game here are the opinions of the experts it will riot not harm anybody nor do anybody much good it la Is interesting but unimportant psychologically it Is a new outlet for the mental energy of man when he be Is denied an outlet tor for ills phy physical energy one psychiatrist a psychiatrist you know Is a practical psych psychologist al ogist sees in the fad ft a certain value in helping us overcome the elie inferiority complex and in ex pla Ilal ining ning why he makes use of the newt newest pet word of the psychologists empathy sympathy Is feeling tor for a thing but empathy Is feeling into a thing to such an extent that you become part of that thing yourself so mr average american gets a lot of empathy out of this popular diversion when lie he sees that some prominent citizen has made a grade of 70 or 80 per cent in one of these quizzes and then goes ahead and makes as good a grade or even it a better one lie he feels that he Is just as smart as the prominent citizen and Is therefore one of the best minds and a great thinker As a matter of fact this questions and answers business Is old stuff they used to do it away back in the tha middle ages lint but how different the quizzes ezzes of those days are from the ones of today Is shown by the following examples from a 4 list compiled by some of the learned men of the twelfth to tile the fourteenth century why did god not will that man should be hungry only once a week answer munger Is one 0 of the punishments punishment brought on man by the sin tn of adam what makes beasts go mad answer looking at a certain tar star in ft the cast on the twenty first day of 0 the be march moon if my father and mother had never existed how should I 1 have been bornt born answer the number of 0 living beings was wa foreseen fore een from all eternity conse conae it your father and mother had not been born you would have been born from another man and woman the men who conduct questions and answers aaers departments in news pup for the purpose of giving readers de joe bird columbus backstop backslap was tile most popular player of the senator eng enible in n contest conducted by a columbus merchant bird was IV lip presented with a wrist watch I 1 iri it gall ion of the honor e lan who plays see gec and laae base tor for jacksonville pulled one that would make grover land sick st k with envy when lie he threw the hie ball C j over ov r the grandstand in a fit of anger while albany had bad the bases full four auns re bulted and allmay won tile gume game I 1 sired information will tell you also that all of tills this Is old stuff for them and if you compiled a book of questions from the inquiries that come to them and apply a test from it to the wisest men in the world it would probably result in a grade of minus zero here Is what one of them has been called upon to answer what Is IB the best beat thing thine I 1 can do when I 1 want to do something and dont know what it Is I 1 have a radl radio 0 but it sounds spooky wh what at all shall ai 1 I 1 do why are we in america instead of europe why thy president coolidge answer my last three letters how can I 1 apply to the carnegie benevolences for an act of heroism so numerous have the queRt questions ions and answers books become that the latest development Is to burlesque them perhaps the inspiration for this was the questionnaire published by F P A the famous newspaper columnist in ills his conning tower in the new york world in which the answers were supplied by lorelei of gentlemen prefer blondes fame who started ot off by answering what was the diet of worms with the information that it was weeds grass and dirt HI phillips another newspaper humorist has contributed his share to the business of not taking these quizzes too seriously with a foolish question book here are some of his questions and answers Q what famous former president of the united states Is burled in the united states supreme court A william wililam howard tart taft Q do you know what the artist said when he looked at the newly completed skyscraper and movie palace A yen yea harry thaw shot the wrong architect Q for what are the ruins of 0 ancient rome noted A fallen arches Q what to Is the name of the japanese skirt designer whose influence Is most reflected in present styles A baxt kan U see Q what Is an emir A doe an elan A animals bred exclusively for cross word puzzles Q why did rip van winkle go to the catskill mountains to sloop sleep twenty years A there were no movies in those days Q what was it michelangelo said when he first saw the venus dl df milo A give this little girl a hand band Q Wh ataro archives A archives Q what Is necessary in most states of america to pet get a divorce A about jioio 1000 Q what are the six most exasperate inic words in the english language A what number did you call please pleas Q what aba t ij 19 a riff A something that Is often f found in a lute Q what kind of milk Is obtained from conte contended tied cows A cows |