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Show ANOTHER A General Quiz ? The Questions 1. When was the Gregorian calendar cal-endar introduced? 2. Does the flying fish actually By? 3. The United States has awarded award-ed how many Congressional1 Medals Med-als of Honor for heroic action during dur-ing the war? 4. Will a bullet fired horizontally reach the ground as quickly as one dropped from the same height? 5. William Wordsworth was poet-laureate of England 7 years. Did he write any poetry during that period? 6. What is the crime record for the average day in the U. S-? 7. What was the purpose of the round table at which King Arthur's knights sat? 8. What does the existence of ;he sphinx and pyramids prove to modern science? 9. Where is a dam three times greater than Grand Coulee and Shasta dams combined being planned? 10. Two of U. N.'s security council delegates, Dr. Najera of Mexico and Dr. Velloso of Brazil, are called call-ed "switch hitters." Why? The Answers 1. In 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. 2. No; the hatchet fish is the only fish that flies. 3. It has awarded 406 medals. 4. Yes, because of the equal pull of gravity. 5. Not a Line. 6. There are 12 accidental killings, kill-ings, 18 murders, 31 rapes, 163 aggravated assaults, 149 robberies, 662 cars stolen, 881 places burglarized burglar-ized and 2,371 other thefts. 7. To indicate that they were all equal, no one sitting at the "head." 8. It gives credence to all the "Seven Wonders of the World," which, owing to their destruction, might otherwise seem mythological. mythologi-cal. 9. A billion dollar dam has been proposed to span the Yangtze gorge about 300 miles east of Chungking. 10. These delegates have spoken in both English and French. . |