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Show J ANOTHER ' y A General Quiz The Questions 1. What is lacking in a person who is anosnic? I 2. Where is the "Land of the , White Elephant"? 3. How old were the Dionne quintuplets on Ma y23, 1946? 4. Who did Joe Louis defeat to become the world's heavyweight boxing champion? j 5. What does the maxim "Caveat "Ca-veat Emptor" mean? j 6. The prefix tele in such words as telegraph and telescope means what? 7. How deep is the lake formed by Boulder dam? 8. Dolly Madison was hostess of the White House 16 years. How was this possible? j 9. The Gulf of Guinea has neither nei-ther lonEitudc, latitude nor altitude. alti-tude. Why? I 10. In the poem "Barbara Friet-chie," Friet-chie," what general said, "Who I touches a hair of yon gray head 'dies like a dogl March on!"7 The Answer 1. The sense of smell. Such n person is suffering from anosmia. 2. Thailand is known as the "Land of the White Elephant." 3. The Dionne quintuplets were 12 years old this year. 4. James J. Braddock was defeated de-feated by Joe Louis in 1937. 5. Let the buyer beware. 6. Far off. 7. Over 500 Let. 8. Thomas Jefferson's wife died before he became President, so the wife of his secretary of state was officially hostess for eight years. Then James Madison became be-came President for two terms. 9. Because it is located where the prime meridian crosses the equator at sea level. 10. Stonewall Jackson. |