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Show II Z 7 jyZ rfiv A Quiz With ! Ji.SlC iVlO Js Answers Offering , j I Information on AHOtlLGT H Various Subjects 1. How much of the earth's surface sur-face is water? 2. What is the average length of a rural mail route in the United States? 3. Did Luther Burbank have any of his plants patented? 4. What is the opposite of a de facto government? 5. What is the total area of the United States and all of its possessions? posses-sions? 6. In Greek mythology, who had dominion over the winds? 7. Is shellac a synthetic preparation? prep-aration? 8. Who is able to sing the highest high-est notes? 9. Was Grover Cleveland the only on-ly Democratic President prior to Woodrow Wilson? 10. Who is sponsoring the floating weather bureau in the mid-Atlantic? Answers 1. The superficial area of the earth is 196,950,000 square miles, of which 139,440,000 square miles are water and 57,510,000 are land. 2. The average length is 35 miles. The longest route is Route No. 1, Brawley, Calif., which is 94.28 miles in length. 3. The scientist received nine plant patents posthumously. 4. De jure government is one existing by legal right or international interna-tional agreement. De facto government gov-ernment is a power governing irrespective ir-respective of its legal authority. 5. The land and water area of the United States is 3,738,395 square miles. 6. Aeolus. 7. Shellac is secreted by an insect. in-sect. While repeated experiments have been made to make it synthetically, syn-thetically, none has been successful. 8. Miss Erna Sack, coloratura soprano of the Dresden Opera company, sings consistently within the register above high C and is able to take the C above high C. It is said that no other singer in modern times has been able to achieve this extraordinary height of voice. 9. In the sense of the modern alignment of the major parties, he may be said to have been the only Democratic President before Wilson. Wil-son. Johnson was a Democrat, however, as was Buchanan, and as were Jackson, Jefferson and others, and traditionally they, especially es-pecially Jackson and Jefferson, are claimed by the Democrats of today. 10. This floating station is sponsored spon-sored by the French ministry of air, "Air France" and the French Line. It will operate in the North Atlantic, and at regular intervals it will flash weather reports to aviators who are crossing from America to Europe, or vice versa. |