[Chancellor Valium]

okay then: you must answer the GRAND HISTORICAL TEST PAPER, which comes in V parts (not III, like Gaul :wink: ), and is on the history of Britain as Top Nation.
TEST PAPER PART I
Up to the end of 1066
1. Which do you consider the more alike, Caesar or Pompey, or vice versa ? (Be brief.)
2. Discuss in latin or gothic (but not both) whether the Northumbrian Bishops were more schismatical than the Cumbrian Abbots. (Be bright.)
3. Which came first, A.D. or B.C. ? (Be careful.)
4. has it never occured to you that the Romans counted backwards ? (Be honest.)
5. How angry would you be if it was suggested
(1) That the XIth Chap. of the Consolations of Boethius was an interpolated palimpsest?
(2) That an eisteddfod was an agricultural implement?
6. How would you have attempted to deal with
(a) the Venomous Bead ?
(b) A Mabinogion or Wapentake ? (Be quick.)
7. What would have happened if (a) Boadicea had been the daughter of Edward the Confessor ? (b) Canute had succeeded in sitting on the waves?
Does it matter?
8. Have you the faintest recollection of
(1) Ethelbreth ?
(2) Athelthral ?
(3) Thruthelthrolth ?
9. What have you the faintest recollection of ?
10. Estimate the average age of
(1) The Ancient Britons.
(2) Ealdormen.
(3) Old King Cole.
11. Why do you know nothing at all about
(a) The Laws of Infangthief and Egg-seisin ?
(b) Saint Pancras ?
12. Would you say that Ethelread the Unready was directly responsible for the French Revolution ? If so, what would you say?

N.B. --- Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time