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Show Jlsk Me Jlnotfier O A General Quiz The Questions 1. What was known in American history as "Seward's Folly"? 2. Where in the New world does the sun rise in the Pacific? 3. Why is the word lucre used with reference to money? 4. What was the first department in the U. S. government to be created? 5. What is the length of a generation? genera-tion? 6. Who is the youngest member of the present congress? 7. What is the amount of America's Ameri-ca's total income? 8. Do all kinds of oysters produce pro-duce valuable pearls? 9. During the World war, what country was the first to make peace with its enemies? 10. Is there any limit to the amount of national debt? I The Answers 1. The purchase of Alaska. 2. On parts of the Isthmus of Panama, which turns and twists in such a manner that t!ia nl l the canal farthest west touches the Atlantic. 3. Lucre is from the Latin lucrum, lu-crum, meaning gain. 4. The department of state (July 27, 1789). 5. The whole body of individuals individu-als born about the Bame period Is a generation, and by extension, the term is applied to the time I covered by their lives. ! 6. Lindley Beck worth, of Texas, who is 25 years old. 7. The department of commerce reports that Americans received $64,200,000,000 in various forms of income in 1938. 8. While many kinds of oysters make pearls, only those produced by mollusks possessing a special type of shell, with an inner lining of mother-of-pearl are in demand. 9. Russia, by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Brest-Litovsk, March, 1918. 10. The national debt is limited by law to $45,000,000,000. |