Luck

Question 1

Where is the story set?

Answer 1

London

Question 2

What is the full name of Arthur?

Answer 2

Lieutenant-General Lord Arthur Scoresby

Question 3

What titles does he have with his name?

Answer 3

Y.C. and K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath)

Question 4

How long has Scoresby’s name been celebrated?

Answer 4

Since a Crimean battlefield 30 years before

Question 5

What is said to describe Scoresby?

Answer 5

Quietness, reserve + noble gravity, honesty, unconsciousness of his greatness

Question 6

Where is the story about Scoresby from?

Answer 6

Clergyman who instructed at Woolwich 40 years ago

Question 7

What school did Scoresby go to?

Answer 7

Woolwich

Question 8

What did the clergyman call Arthur?

Answer 8

Absolute fool

Question 9

What did Arthur do for his exam?

Answer 9

Crammed for preliminary exam 40 years ago

Question 10

What is said about Arthur passing the exam?

Answer 10

Passed through luck, “not likely to happen twice in a century”

Question 11

What did Arthur take first prize in?

Answer 11

Math

Question 12

How did Arthur take first prize in math?

Answer 12

By cramming the most likely questions

Question 13

What is Arthur called?

Answer 13

a donkey

Question 14

What was Arthur in the Crimean War?

Answer 14

Captain in marching regiment in Crimean War

Question 15

What did clergyman buy to help him?

Answer 15

A cornetcy in his regiment

Question 16

What quote is said about Arthur?

Answer 16

“He’ll get so high, that when the discovery does finally come, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.”

Question 17

What does Sheol in ten minutes mean?

Answer 17

Dead in ten minutes

Question 18

What did Arthur do?

Answer 18

Accidentally guessed where a Russian army was

Question 19

What did the Russians assume?

Answer 19

It was the whole English army and fled

Question 20

Who decorated Arthur and where?

Answer 20

Marshal Canrobert, on the field

Question 21

How did Arthur accidentally find a Russian army?

Answer 21

Mistook order to fall back and support the right as fall forward over the hill to the left

Question 22

What is the quote about luck?

Answer 22

“The very best thing in all this world that can be fall a man is to be born lucky.”