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Show r.. (v. cv.' r- o-. o- r. t. o- o- c- r- o- c- f- c- I ASK MS ANOTHER J I A General Quiz The Questions 1. Which are the world's tallest people? 2. Who was Atalanta? 3. What is the meaning of the stage direction "omnes exeunt"? 4. How many states were admitted ad-mitted to the Union during the Civil war? . .. 5. What are the heaviest things known? 6. What is a touchstone? The Answers 1. The Shilluks, living In the Egyptian Sudan. They average nearly seven feet in height. 2. A beautiful mythological creature, crea-ture, fleet of foot, who challenged her suitors to a race, death being the penalty of defeat, her hand the prize. 3. All go out. 4. Two West Virginia and Nevada. Ne-vada. 5. The very faint stars in our sky called "white dwarfs." One cubic inch of a "white dwarf" may weigh 500 tons. 6. A stone used for testing the purity of gold or silver. Any standard stand-ard or test for determining the quality of something. |