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Show Jisk Me Another Q A General Quiz - The Questions 1. Approximately how long is the Panama canal? 2. How many innings was the longest major league baseball game ever played? 3. During what war did the British Brit-ish complete the conquest of Canada Can-ada from the French? 4. Has the South Magnetic pole ever been reached by man? 5. What part of the edible portion por-tion of the average watermelon is water? 6. Which of the Harrisons, William Wil-liam Henry, or Benjamin, his grandson, served but one month of his term as President? 7. How are fortunes told in China? 8. How many people are killed in this country each year by lightning? light-ning? 9. In case no candidate for President Pres-ident receives a majority of the electoral votes, how is the President Presi-dent chosen? 10. On what river is the Grand Coulee dam? The Answers 1. Approximately 50 miles. 2. A 1 to 1 tie was played by Brooklyn and Boston in 26 innings in 1920. 3. Seven Years' war (1756-1763). 4. No. Sir Douglas Mawson came within a few miles of it. 5. Approximately 92.4 per cent. 6. William Henry Harrison, who died one month after his inauguration. inaugura-tion. 7. In China fortunes are told by reading the lines on the soles of the feet as well as the markings on the palms of the hands. 8. Some 2,000 people in the United Unit-ed States are either killed or injured in-jured by lightning each year. Of those killed, the annual average is about nine men to each woman. 9. Ey the house of representatives. representa-tives. 10. Columbia river. |