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Show Know your news? One hundred is perfect score, deducting 20 points for each question you miss. Score oj 60 or higher is acceptable. 1. In which of the following cities did fire kill 500 people, destroy de-stroy 7,000 homes and leave 50,000 homeless: (a) Tararrto, Italy; (b) Shiznoka, Japan; (c) Nairobi, Tanganyika; (d) Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 2. The new U. S. ambassador to Belgium, formerly minister to Eire, is: (a) John Cudahy; (b) Joseph Davies; (c) Tyrone Power; Pow-er; (d) Joseph C. Drew. 3. True or False: Great Britain, in a note to the Pan-American neutrality committee in Rio de Janeiro, rejected the 300-milc "safety zone" constructed around the Western hemisphere. 4. Which gubernatorial candidate candi-date in Louisiana's stormy primary pri-mary election was taken to jail: (a) James A. Noe; (b) Earl K. Long; (c) James H. Morrison; (d) Sam Houston Jones. 5. The New York stock market deals in: (a) stocks and bonds; (b) grain; (c) live stock. News Quiz Answers 1. (B) fs correct. Shizuoka, Japan. 2. (A) is correct. John Cudahy. He was rushed to Brussels because of the new Nazi crisis. (See EUROPE.) 3. True. 4. (A) is correct. (Jones and Long led the election, but no candidate had a majority of all votes cast: therefore a run-off is necessary.) 5. (A) Is correct. (The stock market mar-ket queried 5.000 people, learning to its amazement that 24.2 per cent be- , lieved grain was handled there. 8.7 ' per cent said live stock, and the other 77 per cent, stocks and bonds.) |