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Show wflsk Me Jlnother Q A General Quiz The Question 1. Was Capt. Miles Standish one of the Pilgrim Fathers? 2. Who was killed by Aaron Burr in the famous duel? 3. What is the exact length of time taken by the earth in making its revolution around the sun? 4. Next to oxygen, what is the chief elementary constituent of the earth's crust? 5. The word guerrilla is derived from a Spanish word meaning what? 6. What President of the United States was born on July fourth? 7. What place is known as the Gibraltar of the East? 8. Is there more sunlight at the equator than at the poles? 9. What is the smallest of all flowering plants? 10. In what direction does a cyclone cy-clone whirl? The Answers 1. Capt. Miles Standish was not a Pilgrim, he was brought along for protection. 2. Alexander Hamilton. j 3. The trip takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds. 4. Silicpn. 5. War (guerra). 6. Calvin Coolidge. 7. Singapore. 8. No. A recent study showed that each pole has 65 more hours of sunlight per year than the equator. 9. The smallest of all flowering plants belong to the genus Wolffia. They are aquatic, have no roots and produce flowers about the size and shape of the head of a pin. 10. Because of the rotation of the earth, a cyclone whirls clockwise in the Southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern hemisphere. For the same reason, rea-son, cyclonic storms travel westward west-ward in the tropics and eastward in the middle latitudes. |