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Show What's the Answer Question Vo. 25 1 How fur from the mouth of the ' Mississippi is New Orleans? 2 Who was the founder of Rhode Island ? 3 What ras the earliest weapon j usf-d hv man? j i 4 Who is the champion automobile automo-bile dricer? 5 Who has generally been considered consid-ered the foremost American landscape painter? 6 What French city is the leading silk manufacturing city? 7 What English writer of poetry and romance was also a decorative artist and designer of furniture, tapestries tap-estries and type? 8 What and when was the first newspaper published in America? 9 What other office does the vice president hold besides the vice presidency? presi-dency? 10 What Is the diameter of the moon ? 11 What general was known as "Old Fuss and Feathers"? 12 What is rubber? 13 Who Is the world's amateur skating champion. 14 What American woman, who died in 1020. had been celebrated for more than half a century for her work In oil. water colors and etching, and who received greater honors abroad than at home? 15 What two large cities of the United States are not located on Important Im-portant waterways? 10 What British cities are the leading lead-ing centers for the manufacture of Iron and steel? 17 What British poet was drowned while sailing near Leghorn. Italy? 18 What was the first daily newspaper news-paper in the United States? 19 What Is the salary of the speaker speak-er of the house of representatives? 20 What is the time from new moon to new moon? Answers No. 24 1 Sacajawea. 2 The burning of a substance or body by the internal development of heat without the application of fire. 3 Welker Cochran. 4 "Madame Butterfly." 5 Ninety miles. 6 Emerson, Thoreau. Hawthorne, A. Bronson Alcott, Louise M. Aloott and William Ellery Channing. 7 The walnut is a family of nut bearing trees comprising about a dozen species, all of which are valued for their wood and for their sweet, edible fruit. 8 Seventieth. 9 The sun's surface Is 12,000 and its volume 1,300,000 times that of the earth, but the mass is only 332.000 times as great and its density about one-quarter that of the earth. 10 Alexander Hamilton. 11 Birmingham, Ala. 12 Capt. Matthew Webb in 1S75. 13 In 1021. 14 Because it has been proven that every human being has a marking on the finger tips different from any other oth-er person on earth. 15 Ford's theater, Washington, D. C, during a performance of "Our American Cousin." 10 Venice. 17 James Justinian Morier. 18 From 1.000 to 2.000. 19 Andrew W. Mellon of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. 20 7,920.5 miles 'and the polar diameter di-ameter 7,890.5 miles. |