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Show r. (v. ev- c. o- n- c- o 0- c- f- cl. c. f.- o- e- r- (v. o- ASK ME n ANOTHER I 7 A General Quiz C- O- C" C- P- P- O" O- t- f- CV. V. v. (v. fv. f. (V. The Questions 1. Whose motto was this: "Everything "Ev-erything comes to him who hustles while he waits"? 2. What was the "Invincible Armada"? 3. What fraction of a mile is a furlong? 4. How many railroads enter the City of Chicago? 5. In American political history the Free-Soil party sought to restrict re-strict what? 6. What is the second largest state in the Union?. 7. Which is the oldest royal family fam-ily in the world? . . 8. If the ship the Queen Mary were stood on end, how would its height compare with that of the 77-story 77-story Chrysler building? 9. Where was Illinois' first capital? cap-ital? 10. What was the largest single printing order in history? The Answers 1. Thomas Edison. 2. King Phillip of Spain's fleet that tried to capture England in 1588. 3. One-eighth. 4. Forty-one. 5. Slavery. 6. California. 7. The Japanese. The present emperor is the 112th of his line, which hails back to 660 B. C. 8. Approximately the same (ship 1,018 feet; building 1,046 feet). 9. Kaskaskia. 10. Probably the largest single printing order in history was the one recently created by the rationing ration-ing of sugar in this country. Twenty-three private printing firms as well as the Government Printing Office were required to produce the 700,000,000 forms, cards and booklets. |