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Show ASK ME ) AQuizWithAnsweTs y Offering Information AiN OTHER f on Various Subjects - - ' ' i- A The Questions 1. What name is given to an animal having no backbone? 2. In the Northern hemisphere winds of a cyclone blow in which direction? 3. At the deathbed of Lincoln who said: "Now he belongs to the ages"? 4. Who was the central character charac-ter in the story "The Man Without With-out a Country"? 5. From where do we get quinine? qui-nine? 6. What is a Falangista? 7. In the Arabic saying, what are the next words after "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool " teach him, shun him, or wake him? 8. Which of the following might have an estuary a river, a mountain, moun-tain, or a desert? 9. Do ants have "cows"? 10. How do the green leaves in the forest turn a riot of colors before be-fore frost time? The Answers 1. Invertebrate. 2. Counterclockwise. 3. Edwin M. Stanton. 4. Philip Nolan. 5. From bark of cinchona tree. 6. A member of the Falange Es-panola Es-panola Tradicionalista, Spain's sole political party. 7. "Shun him." 8. A river (a narrow arm of the sea at the lower end of a river). 9. Some species keep aphides, which they stroke to produce a sweet substance to which ants are partial. These ants collect the aphides and keep them in herds, even raising earthen sheds over them and fighting in defense of them. 10. Scientifically speaking, leaves do not change their color in the fall. The colors are there all during dur-ing the spring and summer, obscured ob-scured by the dominant green pigment. pig-ment. When cool weather causes the green pigment to disappear, the bright colors show |