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From Quizzism and Its Key. Quirks and Quibbles from Queer Quarters. A Mélange of Questions in Literature, Science, History, Biography, Mythology, Philology, Geography, etc. etc. With Their Answers, by Albert P. Southwick, A. M.; New England Publishing Company, Boston; 1886; pp. vii-xxii.


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QUIZZISM; AND ITS KEY.

Index




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[You will see that the entries are not in perfect alphabetical order, in accordance with the written copy.]







A




Abélard and Héloise 146



Acestes 172



Achilles Puzzle 179



Acrostic, Napoleonic 34



Adoption of Bible as Constitution 5



Adoption of Stars and Stripes 92



A famous beauty stoned to death 174



A floating town 62



A fugitive king concealed in a tree 132



Age of Delaware and Rhode Island 113



Age of Niagara Falls 20



“A good poet, but a poor shoemaker” 135



Alexander the Great 22



American Daughters of Liberty 97



Amethyst, and its meaning 13



An army officer at the age of eleven 105



Animals noted for the golden tint of their skin 141



Animal that never perspires 141



Animal with a sixth sense 141



Animal called the Unicorn 142



An “atmosphere” 41



Aristotle, the founder of Botany 181



Asdrubal’s head 188



Assailant of Epaminondas 123



Assassin of William, Prince of Orange 99



Attack on Fort Bowyer 182



Attack upon Indian town of Mississinewa 133



Aurora and Tithonus 212



Author born on board a slave ship 133



Author of “Angels’ visits,” etc. 127



Author of “Early to bed,” etc. 177


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Author of “For he that fights,” etc. 46



Author of “Our country, right or wrong” 77



Author of “Maryland, my Maryland” 41



Author of “Speech was given to conceal one’s thoughts” 91



Author of “The Three Rs” 93



Author of “What will Mrs. Grundy say?” 170



Author of “Whatever is worth doing at all,” etc. 175



Avernus 51










B




Baker’s dozen 51



Battle of Great Bridge 83



Battle of Hanging Rock 178



Battle of the Herrings 51



Battle of the Spurs 51



Bay of St. Mary 9



Becoming king by first seeing sun rise 159



Beginning of funeral orations 197



Beginning of slave trade 137



Beginning of the flood 107



Benedict Arnold’s assumed name 22



Bibliomancy 45



Bird without wings 143



Bird without a tail 143



Bird [error for Beast] supposed to be the “Cony” of Scripture 144



Bird used by Chinese for fishing 145



Bird with bristly gape 145



Birth of Adam 45



Birthplace of Homer 7



Black Friday 56



Black Hawk War 181



Black Monday 52



Black Saturday 52



Black Thursday 52



Blood’s Conspiracy 150



Bloodless victory to the Americans 191



Blue Beard 19



“Bort” 10



Boundary between United States and Canada 58



Brandy Nan 130



“Bravest of the Brave” 130



Brazilian slave gaining freedom 11


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“Briareus of languages” 130



British force surrendering to a log 21



“Brown study” 26



Building bridge of boats across Hudson 102



Burning of Temple of Diana 83



“Burning spears” 35










C




Cæsar and the astrologer 27



Cats minus tails 76



California diamonds 73



Captain John Smith’s life saved 31



Capture of Pocahontas 31



Carat weight 10



Cause of “Sicilian Vespers” 89



Cause of pitcher sweating 74



Cause of slaughter of the Magi 81



Cause of Washington being called American Fabius 167



Cause of white streaks on plastered wall 73



Cento 33



Chronograms 26



City built on five small islands 62



City built on piles 4



City built on twenty-six islands 3



City founded by Pizarro 185



Cleopatra’s Needle 69



Climbing fishes 15



Connecting link between birds and reptiles 25



Coprolites 31



Corinth’s pedagogue 135



Corinthian Maid 191



Crocodile tears 137



Crowned king on the field of battle 205



Curse of Ernulphus 151



Curse of Scotland 124



Custom of Borough-English 186



“Cuttle-fish” bones 2



Cutty pipes 129



Cyprinodon 23










D




Day of the Dupes 210



Dead Sea 63


x

Death of Cleopatra 61



Death of noted conqueror on eve of marriage 150



Defeating five kings 199



Definition of Aceldama 147



Definition of letter “A” 50



Definition of the Epact 210



Derivation of cameo 95



Derivation of word “punch” 128



Despard’s Conspiracy 194



Desperate naval battle 134



Destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii 37



Destruction of Parthenon 103



Detection of a British spy 19



Detecting the waters of the Amazon 20



“Devil’s Arrows” 38



“Devil’s Pulpit” 20



Did George Washington see a steamboat? 113



Difference between a Bison and a Buffalo 142



Discovery of the Icthyosaurus 73



Discovery of magnetic power of copper wire 116



Discovery of Pompeii 203



Do barking dogs bite? 51



Does the porcupine throw his quills? 144



Doubling of the letter “y”? 116



Drinking the burnt remains (ashes) of her brother 188



Drinking vessels formed of human skulls 107



Driving last spike of the U. P. Railroad 57



Dutch Tear 182










E




Ear of Dionysius 56



Eclipse of moon causes defeat 43



Eclipse of sun terminates a batle 104



Eden of America 108



Ell English 38



English king holds stirrup for the Pope 57



Entrance of hell 70



“Era of good feeling” 14



Escape of a Pope from prison 109



Escape of Ulysses 28



Establishment of republic of Andorra 148




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F




Fable of the Phœnix 210



Falls of Kartern 41



Falls of Tequendama 31



Familiar story of Sysla and a king 57



Famous lifting experiment 128



Famous sword captured by John Brown 15



Fate of Osceola 66



Fate of Louis XVII. 96



Fate or Romulus 98



Father of Russian poetry 82



Fifteen decisive battles 93



Fifteen hundred people trampled to death 98



Finland’s capital 32



First American vessels to circumnavigate the globe 100



First American flag 39



First appearance of actresses 179



First to ascertain the ratio of the diameter to the circumference 160



First commencement at Harvard College 105



First commercial transaction 21



First circumnavigation of the globe 67



First conjecture of spheroidal form of the earth 118



First engagement of Revolution 111



First English child born in America 102



First feat of pedestrianism 86



First Indian to become a Christian 80



First knowledge of the fan 197



First known game of cards 201



First martyr to American liberty 4



First naval battle 44



First newspaper 191



First parricide 200



First play in America 101



First proposer of secession 24



First ship built in America 39



First slave-trader 106



First suicide 138



First telegraph message 8



First Thanksgiving 35



First theatre in America built 139



First use of expression “Almighty Dollar” 50


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First use of phrase “Over the left” 152



First use of post-paid envelopes 153



First use of the Clepsydra 184



First use of umbrellas 49



Fish living high on lofty trees 15



Fish who stick their heads in the mud 72



Fish with four beards hanging from the mouth 144



Flying squirrels 145



Fool’s gold 10



For what was Barataria Bay noted? 180



Fox-fire 71



Frequent quotation from Samuel Butler 187



Frog the size of an ox 72










G




Gaining three victories in a single day 139



General with two graves 78



Gift of a diamond ring to a Quaker 117



Gift of the Nile 37



Gilderoy’s Kite 38



Gold coin named “angel” 151



Golden Verses 169



Golour M’Crain 185



Gordian Knot 23



Governor of Delaware captured 102



Grasshopper War 39



Gray’s misapplied quotation 33



Green Stars 71










H




Hanging Gardens of Babylon 170



Harmonia’s fatal presents 171



Have reptile’s ears? 144



Henry Hudson’s crew 101



Henry Hudson’s vessel 27



Herculean Knot 23



Hermit of Niagara Falls 96



Highest fortress in the world 63



High-priced bird 25



High price paid for a cat 160



Hindoo’s belief 25



Historic castles 117


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History of the derivation of the dollar sign 74



History of the Fabii 195



History of the House of Plantagenet 202



History of the Orloff Diamond 13



Home of the Gold 78



Horse-shoe becoming an omen 77



How Bonaparte’s life was saved 106



How the Bonapartes derived the name of Napolean 91



How Captain Cook was killed 199



How do leafless plants respire 140



How did the character £ come in use 74



How far can flying fishes fly? 121



How a fortune was left to son of Henry Laurens 108



How General Rahl lost his life 40



How Glaucus obtained divine rank 69



How grasshoppers breathe 77



How the Liberty Tree was consecrated 100



How Lord Kingsale acquired his special privilege 172



How many Athenians fell at Marathon? 80



How often do birds moult their feathers? 142



How the shamrock came into use as a badge 137



How the buttercup derived its name 131



How the capitol of Rome derived its name 183



How the dahlia derived its name 193



How the Minié Rifle obtained its name 190



How the thistle became the insignia of Scotland 211



How the gift of prophecy was obtained 68



How Xerxes counted his army 42










I




Idleness punished by death 194



Inchcape Rock 173



Index Expurgatorius 83



Indians scalped by white men 13



Infant Prodigy 173



Insects injurious to books 119





Introduction of pantaloons 91



Introduction of slaves into Virginia 135



Invention of chess 57



Invention of clocks 154



Invention of gunpowder 81



Invention of masks 186


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Invention of playing cards 46



Inverted volcano 72



Iron crown of Lombardy 148










J




Jeanne Hatchette 99



Jews-Harp 32



John O’Groat 170



Joice Heath 82



Joshua and Caleb 21










K




Killed by kindness 52



King becoming a cook 97



King Cophetua 18



King dying in his carriage 97



Ket’s Rebellion 84



Key of Bastile 44



Kufic coins 54










L




Lady of the Haystack 173



Lake of pitch 13



Lamp of Epictetus 184



Land of mud 41



Largest lump of gold 11



Last battle of the Revolution 109



Latest accession of United States Territory 8



Laura de Noves 82



“Lemures” 85



Location of Cape Hancock 179



Location of Captain Smith’s “Summer Isles” 80



Location of garden of the Hesperides 68



Location of Raleigh Tavern 60



London Stone 185



Longfellow’s mistake 8



Lord Cornwallis and his horse 34



Lynch law 85










M




Madame Chanoyes 80



Made king by the neighing of his horse 136



Man with the Iron Mask 84


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Mantuan Bard 186



Mary Hamilton 140



Marriage of Columbus 7



Massacre at Paoli 86



Massacre at Valteline 140



Massacre of one hundred thousand Romans 190



Material of breastworks at New Orleans 163



Meal-Tub Plot 189



Meaning of Bab-el-Mandeb 62



Meaning of Brazil 183



Meaning of expression “Nestor of politics” 168



Meaning of Gibraltar 169



Meaning of Godwin’s Oath 177



Meaning of Manhattan 27



Meaning of Maunday-Thursday 188



Meaning of Patagonia 182



Meaning of phrase “A Roland for an Oliver” 168



Meaning of “Remember the Raisin” 200



Meaning of “Sardonic Smile” 175



Meaning of Texas 174



Meaning of the phrase “Cæsar’s wife,” etc. 127



Meaning of the word Assassin 120



Meaning of “True Blue” 129



Mecklenberg Resolutions 22



Meeting of Columbus with his brother 103



Mesas 73



Metamorphosis of Arachne 68



Michael Servetus 181



Military order instituted by Philip the Good 177



Monmouth’s Rebellion 193



Most curious book in the world 162



Most destructive earthquake on record 36



Mother of three kings 34



Mount Galongoon 105



Murmuring noise of sea-shells 23



Mutiny of crew of the Bounty 83










N




Name of the Indian that shot King Philip 62



Name of isthmus connecting Crimea with mainland 201



Name of longest street in Paris 122



Napoleon’s bon mot 33


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Napoleon’s escape 85



Napoleon’s fortune 152



Nearest American town to Europe 63



Nell Gwynn 200



Nemean games 86



Nest-building fishes 14



Norfolk Island 87



Noted anagrams 149



Noted chair in Bodleian Library 128



Noted dinner party 20



Number of Iliads 172



Nurse of Romulus 185










O




Oate’s Plot 196



Obelisk to Logan 117



Occasion of bad odor of burnt gunpowder 146



Offering a reward for her brother’s head 14



“Old Donation” 39



Old John Butler 35



Old Man Eloquent 67



Old Man of the Mountains 50



Oldest fable on record 196



Oldest poem in existence 44



Oldest republic in the world 44



Orator Henley 198



Order of the Garter established 171



Origin of a “bumper” 167



Origin of Arabic numerals 5



Origin of common saying “Eaten me out,” etc. 186



Origin of expression “Knock under” 53



Origin of familiar line “Hypocrisy is,” etc. 176



Origin of filibuster 115



Origin of Grog 54



Origin of kissing the Pope’s toe 53



Origin of mesmerism 189



Origin of pasquinades 201



Origin of “Ps and Qs” 45



Origin of phrase “A little bird,” etc. 126



Origin of phrase “Kicking the bucket” 166



Origin of phrase “Sub rosa” 47



Origin of superstition regarding the number 13 6


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Origin of term “Yankee” 24



Origin of texts 45



Origin of the fable of the “Man in the moon” 206



Origin of the name of Lake Itasca 176



Origin of the Sandwich 209



Origin of the sycamore groves in Scotland 138



Origin of “To let the cat out of the bag” 132



Origin of word blarney 52



Origin of word “News” 158



Origin of Yankee Doodle 90



Original cause exempting Congressmen from arrest 196



Original legend of Gulliver’s Travels 208



Original Mrs. Partington 6



“Ossuary” 40



Ostracism 67










P




Pastimes of animals 141



Peculiar properties of salt 29



“Pele’s hair” 26



People regarding Friday as a lucky day 60



People using 355 days for a year 16



Petition of sixteen maids 49



Peter the wild boy 87



Philomela changed into a nightingale 68



Pillars of Hercules 165



Place where Captain John Smith was saved by Pocahontas 64



Plant producing sixty-six millions of cells 141



Plumage of birds rendered waterproof 143



Polka first danced 49



Pompey’s pillar 88



Pons Asinorum 175



“Poor Man’s Region” 30



Pope Joan 88



Possessor of the largest diamond 12



“Pot-holes” 37



Prediction of the death of Cyrus 175



Prince Rupert’s Drop 70



Prussian Leonidas 107



Pulaski’s Banner 9



Pulpit Rock 37



Punishment by cutting off the hair 178



Purchase of the Hessians 79




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Q






Quicksilver, a nickname for mercury 35



Quotation from Travels of Gulliver 18



Quotations from William Congreve 205



Quotation from William Shenstone 5



Quotations from speech of William Wirt 5










R




Reason of the promise of Columbus 103



Reason of circular boundary of Delaware 28



Red Canary birds 146



Rent paid by Lord Baltimore 98



Reply of Leonidas to Xerxes 166



Report of General Greene 133



Resina and its location 26



Resting-place of the Ark 149



Revolutionary officer kept prisoner at Jamaica 123



Rider of Black Horse 68



River of acid water and of ink 36



River of poetic inspiration 131



“Rock cities“ 30



Rosamond’s Bower 89



Royal dance of torches 107



Rustic lovers 100










S




Sayings of the Seven Wise Men 15



Scottish Solomon 32



Seven Cities of Cibola 75



Seven senses 32



Shipwreck of St. Paul 108



Sicilian Vespers 81



Ship canal across Panama 114



Signification of “I have a crow,” etc. 135



Sign of a wine-shop at Pompeii 129



Singing fishes 14



Singing mice 144



Simplest pocket rule 43



Skull of Alexander Pope 164



Snuff box sold for thirty dollars 130



Solidity of minerals 38



Solomon puzzled 80


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Song of the Sirens 28



Source of glycerine 176



Spy swallowing the evidence of his guilt 59



Stalactites and stalagmites 11



St. Anthony’s diet 146



“Starving Time” in Virginia 64



Stone that imparted the gift of prophecy 207



Stone-suckers 145



Stopping the pulsation of the heart 29



Storks protected by law 62



St. Petersburg and its location 5



Story of Dorigen 166



Story of Inkle and Yarico 208



Story of Jaafer 211



Story of Mazeppa 206



Story of Prince San Severo 71



Story of the remains of James II. 54



Story of the diamond necklace 194



Story of the Kilkenny cats 132



Stratagem of Columbus 155



Supertition regarding “burning ear” 209



Swiftest of all runners 131










T




Taurosthenes 202



Tchernaya 138



Teacher of deaf and dumb 112



Temple of Jupiter Ammon 63



Termination of reign of gigantic reptiles 72



The Albatross 114



The Aqua Tofana 202



The bearded Tortoise 144



The Beggar Monarch 102



The Blue River 95



The Boy Bachelor 130



The Budians 81



The “El Dorado” 195



The eleven thousand virgins 174



The four labyrinths 184



The Golden King 95



The Golden Number 16



The herbivorous whale 142


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The Governor with twenty brothers 121



The Greek woman attending Plato’s lectures 118



The killer of all people but three 167



The laughing philosopher 172



The Mons Meg 95



The newest mountains 18



The “Notables” 207



The original Tammany 138



The Pantheon 199



The Praslin murder 184



The puffing pig 145



The Santa Maria 7



The seven bibles 58



The “short-lived” administration 137



The sleeping philosopher 167



The stone mountain 11



The Sultan who strangled nineteen brothers 133



The Tarpeian Rock 122



“The Tea Parties” 64



The Tenth Muse 204



The three angels who warned Abraham 207



The “three joyous messages” 90



The three kings of Cologne 53



The three nations of Amazons 147



The three tobacco-takers 129



The three vitriols 12



The Thundering Legion 205



The tune of which the cow died 174



The “tin-cry” 69



The toad-stone 69



The tradition of St. Patrick and the serpent 212



The traitor at Thermopylæ 80



The transformation of the pious couple 69



The two Spartans who left the “Pass” 41



The Ungrateful Guest 170



The Walloons 150



The Wandering Jew 16



The “wish-bone” of birds 143



Titan’s Pier 30



To whom were a bird, mouse, etc., sent? 79



To whom were raised 360 brazen statues? 123



Trajan’s floating palace 99




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V




Valley of Death 3



Valley of the Upas Tree 36



Venice and its location 4



Vestal Virgins 148



Victoria Cross 150










W




Water Volcano 182



Web of Penelope 168



What animal never sleeps? 22



What country has never been conquered? 180



What is Endymion? 167



What was the Strelitz? 204



When did cats, dogs, etc., cause the capture of a city? 79



When was an infant the only being saved? 106



When was Rome saved? 169



Where did Newton see the apple fall? 50



Where did John Falstaff drop his lance? 97



Where was Nephelo-coccygia? 203



“White Man’s grave” 63



Who were the Volsci? 204



Who called Shakespeare “the myriad-minded”? 176



Who died in consequence of a “ducking”? 205



Who first said “There’s many a slip” etc.? 136



Who first saw the New World? 7



Who killed Tecumseh? 56



Who said “Après moi le deluge”? 166



Who was Eucles? 44



Who was Iros? 207



Who was liberated in exchange for General Burgoyne? 134



Who were the “seven sleepers”? 17



Whose head was fixed on London Bridge? 103



Why Adrian’s wall was built 147



Why alligators swallow stones 160



Why are bricks red? 10



Why a body falls east of a vertical line 122



Why do soap-bubbles rise? 41



Why does lightning turn milk sour? 59



Why did no person die in England for eleven days? 114



Why Goldsmith wrote She Stoops to Conquer 209



Why have July and August each thirty-one days? 115


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Why is fresh water frozen when enclosed by liquid salt-water? 117



Why John Cleves Symmes is remembered 98



Why metal Tungsten has the symbol W 142



Why Passion Flower was so named 208



Why was Temple of Piety built? 139



Why stones do not burn as well as wood 71



Wife of Martin Luther 134



Wine worth two millions of dollars a bottle 165



“Wise Men of Gotham” 126



Writer of 278 poems before the age of seventeen 102










Y




Year of Great Babies 42



Yttrium. the rare metal 151









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