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Show ANOTHER J I f A General Quiz ? The Questions 1. What is lacking in a person who is anosnic? 2. Where is the "Land of the White Elephant"? 3. How old were the Dionne juintuplets on Ma y28, 1946? 4. Who did Joe Louis defeat to Decome the world's heavyweight coxing champion? 5. What does the maxim "Ca-?eat "Ca-?eat Emptor" mean? 6. The prefix tele in such words as telegraph and telescope means nfhat? 7. How deep is the lake formed Dy Boulder dam? 8. Dolly Madison was hostess of the White House 16 years. How was this possible? 9. The Gulf of Guinea has neither nei-ther longitude, latitude nor altitude. alti-tude. Why? 10. In the poem "Barbara Priet-chie," Priet-chie," what general said, "Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies like a dog I March on!"? The Answers 1. The sense of smell. Such a person is suffering from anosmia. 2. Thailand is known as the "Land of the White Elephant." 3. The Dionne quintuplets were 12 years old this year. 4. James J. Braddock was "defeated "de-feated by Joe Louis in 1937. 5. Let the buyer beware. 6. Far off. 7. Over 500 feet. 8. Thomas Jefferson's wife died before he became President, so the wife of his secretary of state was officially hostess for eight years. Then James Madison became be-came President for two terms. 9. Because it is located where the prime meridian crosses the equator at sea level. 10. Stonewall Jackson. Lost Arrow Peak Only One in U. S. Not Scaled The only rock formation in the United States that has never been climbed is the 2,800-foot Last Arrow Ar-row peak in Yosemite valley, owing ow-ing to the excessive steepness and smoothness of its last 1,500 feet, says Collier's. Another attempt to scale it will soon be made by a group of mountaineers moun-taineers who, to sleep at night, will tie themselves against the vertical face of the pinnacle. |