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Show mw tumti Isk Me Another Q i5 Generai Quiz imMtn""""" The Questions 1. How much does it cost to fire the largest gun in the U. S. army? 2. Who were the oldest and youngest members of the Constitutional Consti-tutional convention? 3. Is Mabatma Gandhi married? 4. What is the lowest hereditary title of British nobility? 5. What was Howard Hughes' time for his round-the-world flight in July? 6. What is the difference between be-tween an attack plane and a pursuit pur-suit plane? 7. How does the proportion of city students attending college compare with that of the country students? 8. What is the history of the clock in the senate corridor of the U. S. Capitol? The Answers 1. The 16-inch gun is the largest and the cost to fire one round is approximately $3,000. 2. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, then 81, and Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, who was 26 years old. 3. He is married and has four sons and several grandchildren. Married at the age of 13, in 1906 he took a perpetual vow of celibacy. celi-bacy. 4. Baronet. 5. Three days, 19 hours. 6. Attack planes are designed and armed for attacking the enemy's en-emy's ground forces; pursuit planes are designed and armed especially for fighting enemy aircraft. air-craft. 7. Out of every 1,000 rural families, fami-lies, 53 young men and women are sent to college, while 49 college col-lege students are sent from every 1,000 urban homes. 8. The clock was bought by the government and presented to the senate in 1803, when the state of Ohio was admitted to the Union. The 17 stars on the front of the case represent the states which were part of the Union at that time, the seventeenth star representing repre-senting Ohio. The clock keeps accurate time in spite of its 135 years of service. |