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Show ANOTHER t I y A General Quiz ? 1. Which has the most bones In its neck, the girallo or the sparrow? spar-row? 2. How old is the game of chess? 3. How are illegal stills being tracked down these days? 4. How many different kinds of trees are there on the White House grounds? 5. Why is the India rubber worm so called? 6. What is the "ultrasonic laundering" laun-dering" of clothes that has been predicted by a British scientist? 7. What is the ratio of people tc land in Alaska? 8. What is a grebe? The Answers 1. The giraffe has 7, the sparrow spar-row 18. 2. It is said to have originated in India in the third century A. D. 3. By airplane. 4. Ninety dilTerent kinds. 5. Hecau.se a 15-foot specimen, for example, can extend itself or be pulled to a length of 80 feet. 6. The use of vibrations of highly high-ly pitched inaudible sound waves to shake out the dirt. 7. Approximately one person to every 10 square miles. 8. The grebe is a paddle-footed, almost tailless diving bird related to the loon. |