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Carlo Beenakker
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According to Ralph Boas, in his memoir Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits (page 10), it was not Littlewood but G.H. Hardy who asked these three questions to referees, as editor of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. This is given as a first-hand recollection, so probably reliable:

Carlo Beenakker
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