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Show l ASK ME ) I ANOTHER ?' A General Quiz 1. When was the U. S. Marine Corps organized? 2. Where is the force of gravity felt the least, at the poles or at the equator? 3. What is another name for horse mackerel? 4. Who was the first man to be President of the 48 American states? 5. If an object has no definite shape, it is said to be what? 6. What was a Greek hoplite? 7. What width is a hairsbreadth? 8. How many Civil war veterans are now living? 9. What breed of cow holds the ; world's milk production record? 10. What live animal actors have to be faked in Hollywood picture-making? picture-making? The Answers 1. In 1775 (by an act of the Continental Con-tinental congress). 2. The equator. 3. Tuna. ; 4. William H. Taft. 5. Amorphous. 6. A soldier. 7. In reality, a hairsbreadth is one forty-eighth of an inch. 8. The Veterans administration had 1,316 Civil war veterans on its list September 30, 1941. 9. Holstein. 10. The only live animal actors in Hollywood that have to be faked are African elephants, for pictures with African scenes. There are only six such animals from that continent in the United States and j they cannot be rented. Asiatic elephants have to be used and are made to look like their African cousins by wearing large false cars. |