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Show What's the f Answero Questions No. 2 1 What Is the record for nn automobile auto-mobile at one mile on a circular dirt track? 2 What team won the "Iilg Ten" football championship in 1020? 8 What Is an earthquake? 4 What Is the difference between a dynamo and a motor? 5 When was Harvard college founded ? 6 Who was the leader of the Indian In-dian war of 17GH? 7 What composer showed the most amazing precocity In childhood, became be-came court musician to a king, wrott twelve successful operas, forty (symphonies (sym-phonies nnd over five hundred other compositions, and died penniless and was burled In an unmarked grave at the age of thirty-six? 8 Which Is the most elevated plateau pla-teau on earth? 0 Who wrote, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"? 10 Who said, "Lafayette, we are here I"? 11 What famous dramatists, contemporaneous con-temporaneous with Shakespeare, wrote In collaboration? 12 What team defeated Chicago White Sox for the world's champion ship In 1010? 13 Who was the leading pitcher In the National league In 1926? 14 In mechanical engineering, what Is an eccentric? 15 Who Invented the kodak? 16 Who discovered the main stream of the Mississippi river? 17 Whnt battles In what war were fought before a formal declaration of war by the United States? IS During what centuries did the Renaissance reach its height? 19 Which continent embraces the largest division of land? 20 Who said, "I wonld rather be right than be President"? Answers No. 1 1 Balboa. 2 St. Augustine, Fla., 15G5. 8 The area of the earth's surface Is 197,000,000 square miles. 4 The average person's range of visibility is 2.96 miles at five feet above sea level. 5 Once, In 1926. 6 Revival of the classic arts In Europe Eu-rope after the depressing influence of the Middle Ages. 7 Australia. 8 Phi Beta Kappa, organized In 1776. 9 Nathan Hale. 10 The steel and iron Industry. 11 Myopia is a defect of vision commonly com-monly called short-sight. 12 Geologists reckon the earth's age at about 1,497,000,000 years. 13 1619. 14 170L 15 Barney Oldfjeld. 16 John Barrymore. 17 Australia. 18 Francois Villon. 19 Admiral Farragut 20 Water. |