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Show ? ? I ASK PAS z with answers offering ? ? $j&7$&i a informa,iononvarioussubiec,s ? ? ? 7"ie Questions 1. "Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!" is a quotation from what American poet? 2. Over what country did the Incas reign? 3. Approximately how many miles of railroad are there in the United States? 4. How many vestigial organs has man? 5. Is sunburn caused by the heat of the sun? 6. Where was the Tower of Babel? 7. How many railway tunnels are there in the United States and what is their total length? 8. Phillips Brooks, Henry Ward Beecher, and Lyman Abbott were noted chiefly as what poets, statesmen or preachers? 9. What is the population of the Dominion of Canada? The Answers 1. Henry W. Longfellow ("The Building of the Ship"). 2. Peru. 3. Approximately 236,000 miles. 4. Man possesses no less than 180 vestigial organs that, although probably once of vital importance, are now of little use to him. 5. No, sunburn is caused by the ultraviolet rays of the sun. 6. Babylon. 7. There are 1,539 railway tunnels tun-nels in the United States totaling 320 miles. 8. Preachers. 9. According to the last census, 11,012,734. |