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Show wttsk Me Jlrtother O A General Quiz The' Questions 1. How many tablets of stone held the Ten Commandments as given to Moses? 2. The average amount of blood in the human body is about what proportion of the body weight? 3. "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" is a quotation from what? 4. What is a binnacle? 5. In Greek legend, who sowed the dragon's teeth? 6. What country named its capital cap-ital after an American President? 7. What is meant by 0:15 a. m.? 8. Who were Egbert, Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, and Ethel-red? Ethel-red? 9. Is the Niagara falls moving backwards? 10. Is any other flag ever flown above the American flag in the United States? The Answers 1. Two. 2. One twentieth. 3. "Macbeth." 4. A box containing a ship's compass. 5. Jason. 6. Liberia (Monrovia, named for President Monroe). 7. Fifteen minutes after midnight. mid-night. The zero is used to denote that the first hour of the day has not elapsed. 8. The first five rulers of England, Eng-land, reigning 12, 19, 2, 8, and 5 years respectively, from 827 to 873. Their conquest formed part of the rich early Saxon-Danish history his-tory of the island. 9. The brink of Niagara is receding re-ceding at the average rate of approximately ap-proximately 2V2 feet a year. 10. Church pennants, representing represent-ing the internationalism of Christianity, Chris-tianity, are permitted to fly over the Stars and Stripes. |