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Show What's the 7 Here ! a new feature that will provide profitable entertainment ! for all of our readers. In each issue we will print a series of I twenty questions covering such subjects as history, science, gc- j ography, literature, arithmetic religion, sports, economics, famous fa-mous sayings, natural history and other things. In this issue- i we start the series with the first I twenty questions. Our next issue- i will carry the answer to these ! questions and another set of twenty, and so on over a period; j of several months. Try to answer j these questions as they appear ' in each issue. To do so, to- j search for the answers that you do not know, will add materially to your store of valuable information. infor-mation. This new, "What's the ; Answer" department is an educational edu-cational feature of unusual value. Cut out the questions, keep them until the answers appear in the next issue and then see how near j correct your own answers have I been. Follow it from issue to j issue and you will find it fas- j cinating. j Questions No. 1 J 1 Who discovered the Pacific ocean t i 2 What Is the oldest town In the- i UnlterL.States and when' was It settled?' ; 3 What Is the area of the earth's . j surface? 4 What Is the average person's- range of visibility? j 6 How many times has St Louis j won the National league pennant? 6 What Is the meaning of the Hen- j alssance as applied to art? ; 7 What land is remarkable In that ; It has practically no drainage to the- j sea? 8 What Is the oldest Greek letter i college fraternity? 9 Who said, "I regret that I have , but one life to give to my country"T j 10 What industry Is considered the j barometer for general trade in the United States? 11 What is myopia? 12 How old is the earth? 13 When was negro slavery Introduced Intro-duced Into the United States? 14 When was Yale college founded? 15 Who was the first man to drive an automobile more than a mile in a minute? 1(5 What American actor has won distinction as tragedian and comedian; come-dian; as an interpreter of Shakespeare Shake-speare and of the modern drama, and Is equally proficient on the stage and In moving pictures? 17 Which of the continents has the most regular coast line? 18 Who was the first lyric poet of France? . 19 Who said: "D n the torpedoes 1 Go ahead !"? 20 What Is America's greatest undeveloped un-developed resource? |