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Show ASK MK & Quiz With Answers y Offering Information ANOTHER f on Various Subjects The Questions 1. How many days in a fortnight? fort-night? 2. Of what country are the following fol-lowing the emblem: the thistle, the shamrock, the maple leaf, the lily? ' 3. Which is heavier, a pint of cream or a pint of milk? 4. What is a counterpane? 5. Does an electric light bulb shine or glow? 6. Are a turtle and a tortoise the same? 7. What does the title "Mona Lisa" mean? 8. How many Shetland islands are there? 9. Are passports required when flying to foreign countries? 10. Where in the Bible does it say that a woman should not whistle? The Answers 1. Fourteen. 2. Scotland, Ireland, Canada, France. 3. A pint of milk. The cream floats to the top of the milk. 4. A coverlet for a bed. 5. Both. Glow means to shine with intense heat. 6. Strictly speaking, turtle means members of the order which live in water, and tortoise, members which live on land. 7. Mona is an abbreviation for madonna (my lady). Lisa is a proper name. 8. There are more than a hundred, hun-dred, but only one-fourth of them are inhabited. All are very small. 9. Yes. 10. There is no verse in the Bible relating to, a prohibition of a woman's wom-an's whistling. The reference may be to the old English proverb: "A whistling woman, a crowing hen is neither fit for gods nor men." The origin is unknown. |