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Show Jlsk Me Jlnother Q A General Quiz The Questions 1. What capital letter is used most frequently in English words? 2. What is a Jolly Roger? 3. Of currants, grapes, cranberries, cranber-ries, oranges, tomatoes and bananas, ba-nanas, how many are classified by botanists as berries? 4. Without stopping to count, give the number of zeros in one billion. 5. In major league baseball, how often are games won by a no-hit, no-run pitching performance? 6. Are glow worms actually worms? 7. Where in the United States is the longest stretch of railroad track without a curve? The Answers 1. The letter "S," according to Funk and Wagnalls New Stands ard dictionary. 2. A pirate flag. 3. All of them. 4. Nine. 5. Only one in about 1,400 games. 6. No, glow worms are actually beetles. The males can fly, but the females cannot, so they light up to let their lovers know where they are. 7. North Carolina claims this record. Between Wilmington and Hamlet, a distance of 78.86 miles, there is a stretch of track without a single curve. |