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Show ASK ME n ? ANOTHER ? ? ? j A General Quiz ? The Questions 1. When did congress fix the number of stripes in our flag at 13? 2. What name is given to the green coloring matter of plants? 3. How many states were there in the Confederacy? 4. What state is known as the "Mother of Presidents"? 5. What is the only New England state having no coastal area? 6. For every American and Briton Brit-on who can read and write Japanese, Japa-nese, how many Japanese can read and write English? 7. The poinsettia was named after aft-er whom? 8. How many states touch the border of Oklahoma? 9. An elevator in London is called what? 10. At what average age do writers writ-ers reach their greatest literary ability? The Answers 1. The year 1818. 2. Chlorophyll. 3. Eleven. 4. Virginia. 5. Vermont. 6. At least 10,000 Japanese. 7. Joel Poinsett, American minister min-ister to Mexico in 1825, who brought the first plants back to the United States. 8. Six. 9. A lift. 10. A study of the works of nearly 1,000 famous American and British Brit-ish writers shows that their masterpieces' mas-terpieces' were written, on the average, av-erage, when they were in their 46th year. |