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Show AOF fuT f A Quiz With Answers rik"?1- Offering Information ANOTHER f on Various Subjects I - 1 1. What is the largest room in any building in the United States? 2. Which is the oldest industry, tanning or pottery? 3. How many islands are there in the Philippine group? 4. Why is the twelfth month of the year called December when decern means ten? 5. How many miles of highway are there in the world? 6. Where is the largest cotton plantation in the United States? 7. Are sapphires always blue? 8. Which is the correct form, anyone's else or anyone else's? The Answers 1. The Goodyear Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio 55 million cubic feet. It is so large that sudden changes of temperature cause clouds to form and rain falls inside in-side of the hangar. 2. Most authorities agree that ancient man, whose only clothes were skins of wild animals, learned how to treat hides long before be-fore he discovered the secrets of pottery. 3. There are 7,083. 4. December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar. It has retained its Latin name. 1 5. There are 9,600,000 miles of highways in the world, with almost 4,000,000 in the Americas and more than 3,500,000 in Europe. 6. The 60 square miles owned by the Delta & Pine Land Co. of Scott, Miss. 7. No; some are red, green, white, violet or yellow. However, the name sapphire is usually restricted re-stricted to the blue variety. 8. Anyone else's is the correct form. In pronominal expressions in the genitive construction "else" usually takes the genitive inflection. |