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Show TT 7 T A Quiz With jTLSIC IvJLQ Answers Offering jr ij Information on JllOttLQT H Various Subjects 1. Has the population of the United States increased or decreased de-creased in the last ten years and how much? 2. What is the world's longest airline? 3. How many people have lived since the beginning of recorded history? 4. For what countries did the United States coin money last year? 5. What was the beginning of the motion picture industry in Hollywood? Hol-lywood? 6. Do the cold waters of the temperate and frigid zones contain con-tain more plant and animal life than do the warm waters of the tropics? 7. How does the Maxim silencer work? 8. Why do sharks fight back down? Answers 1. A census of population was taken in this country in 1930 and the next will be taken in 1940. Any other figures that may be given are simply estimates. The United States had a population of 122,- 775,046 in 1930 ; the estimated population pop-ulation on July 1, 1935, was 127,-521,000, 127,-521,000, showing an increase of nearly five millions in five years. 2. The world's longest air line is that between Amsterdam, Holland, Hol-land, and the Dutch East Indies, 9,000 miles away. There are two departures weekly at each end of it. 3. The eugenics department of the Carnegie institution estimates that 30,000,000,000 people have lived since the beginning of recorded rec-orded history, some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago. 4. For Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia and San Salvador. This coinage totaled 72,180,449 pieces. 5. In 1907 Selig opened the first California studio in Los Angeles. The first picture was the "Count of Monte Cristo" in 1,000 feet. Soon after that time other motion picture studios in New York opened California studios. 6. More plant and animal life per square mile is found in the cold waters of the temperate and frigid zones than in the ocean waters of the tropics. 7. The Maxim silencer is a tubular tub-ular device attached to the muzzle of a firearm that renders the discharge dis-charge practically noiseless. The device has an interior spiral which, permitting the ejection of the bullet, retards the explosion of the gases by causing them to rotate before escaping. 8. Because of the peculiar conformation con-formation of the shark's mouth, it is necessary for it to turn on its back when attacking an object at the surface of the water. A shark's mouth opens below its snout on the under side of its body and it is, therefore, unable to bite anything directly above it without turning over. |