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Show ASK ME 1 A quiz with answers offering J j A FJ TfnllEU n informa,ion on voriou"ubiec,s The Questions 1. What President popularized the fireside? 2. How many employees of the executive branch of the U. S. government gov-ernment serve without pay? 3. What was the peacetime occupation oc-cupation of Francis Scott Key, writer of "The Star Spangled Banner"? Ban-ner"? 4. How many members who attended at-tended the Constitutional Convention Conven-tion did not sign the Constitution? 5. What is an agnail? 6. When a custom tax or import duty is assessed at a certain percentage per-centage of the value of the imported import-ed article, it is called what? 7. Can an airplane travel as fast as the sound of its propeller? 8. Who was known as the "Poet of the Sierras"? 9. What is the average length of English words as compared to that of German words? 10. When is the only time a woman wom-an is presented to a man? The Answers 1. Abraham Lincoln. He studied beside the fireplace in his parents' cabin. 2. About 285,000. 3. Lawyer. 4. Sixteen. 5. A hangnail. 6. Ad valorem. 7. Yes, in the stratosphere. The sound waves set in motion ahead of the propeller pile up, making it harder for the propeller to bite its way through. Specially designed propellers are used because of this. 8. Joaquin Miller. 9. The average length of English words is 4.5 letters, while that of the German words is 5.92 letters, or 32 per cent more. 10. When the man is President of the United States, a royal personage, person-age, or an ecclesiastic. |