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Show Jlsk Me iliiotKer Q A General Quiz 1. What is the only walled city in America? 2. Why is the sky blue? 3. What land lies closest to 0 degrees de-grees latitude and 0 degrees longitude? longi-tude? 4. What was Aaron Burr's conspiracy con-spiracy supposed to have been? 5. What harbor has two tides a day? 6. What is the length of the longest long-est pipe line in the world? 7. Name a few authors who had to wait a long time for financial success. 8. How long a line would it take to go over the Great Pyramid, reaching the earth, on each side? Answers 1. Quebec. 2. Because the particles of dust in the upper atmosphere reflect only the blue waves of light. 3. The British Gold Coast colony col-ony is nearest. 4. To form a new empire in the Southwest out of Mexican or Louisiana Lou-isiana territory. 5. The harbor of Southampton, England. 6. The longest pipe line was recently re-cently built under American direction di-rection across Asia Minor, and extends ex-tends for a distance of 1,150 miles. 7. Joseph Conrad wrote for 20 years before he sold a book. In the first nine years of George Bernard Ber-nard Shaw's literary endeavor, he realized about $30. A. A. Milne earned about $100 the first year he spent as a full-time author. 8. A line stretched over the sloping slop-ing sides and over the top, from earth to earth, would measure 1,186.4 feet, with 36 feet resting on the flat top. |