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Show iWWWWtlHilMMHll) Jlsk Me Jlnother Q A General Quiz 1. Who gave the name "Empire" "Em-pire" to the state of New York? 2. What is a Rhodes scholar? 3. The portraits of what two women have been used on United States postage? 4. On what date does the government gov-ernment fiscal year begin? 5. What do the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent? 6. What secretary takes precedence prece-dence in the President's cabinet? 7. What is a translucent substance? sub-stance? A transparent substance? An opaque substance? , 8. When has this country issued is-sued mourning stamps? 9. Do all the prisoners at Alca-traz Alca-traz work? The Answers 1. It is attributed to George Washington, who mentioned it in an address delivered in 1784 as being "at present the seat of empire." em-pire." 2. A non-English student awarded award-ed a scholarship at Oxford university uni-versity from a fund which was established by the will of Cecil Rhodes. 3. Those of Martha Washington and Pocahontas. 4. The government fiscal year begins July 1. 5. War, famine, pestilence, and death. 6. The secretary of state. 7. A translucent substance permits per-mits the passage of light rays through it, but objects cannot be distinctly seen through it. Objects can be seen distinctly through a transparent object. An opaque object ob-ject does not reflect or give out rays of light. 8. A Lincoln stamp in 1866, Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley stamp in 1922, Harding stamp in 1923 and Wilson stamp in 1925. Garfield received postal honors within a year after his death, but the color of the stamp was brown. 9. Every prisoner on Alcatraz works for eight hours a day, six days a week. The industries consist con-sist of the clothing factory, mat factory, and laundry. |