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Show NEWS QUIZ Know your news? One hundred is perfect score on the following quiz. Deduct 20 points from each question you miss. Score of 60 or more is acceptable to excellent. & 1 1 hy : j 1. Above is the cannon-firing P-40 P-40 Curtiss pursuit ship, one of three new army models which France and Britain asked permission per-mission to buy. Did the army grant or refuse such permission? 2. (Each part of the following counts 10 points). Why were the following movie stars in the news: (a) Dorothy "Penny" Singleton; Sin-gleton; (b) Bob Burns? 3. True or False: Reprimanded Reprimand-ed by the state department after delivering an anti-German speech, U. S. Minister to Canada James II. R. Cromwell resigned in a huff. 4. What record-shattering event made residents of Syracuse, Uti-ca, Uti-ca, Rochester, and other upper New York cities stay home against their will? 5. Choice: The new explosive of Lester P. Barlow, demonstrated demonstrat-ed before congressmen, is made of (a) liquid oxygen and carbon; (b) T. N. T., dynamite and carbon; car-bon; (c) glycerin and rosewater. Neivs Quiz Answers 1. Permission was granted. 2. (A) "Penny" Singleton was hospitalized hos-pitalized after an auto accident; (B) Bob Burns and others were sued by man who said he was kidnaped and forced to sign a denial that Burns had stolen his wife's affections. 3. False. He refused to resign. 4. The biggest blizzard since 1888 blocked all roads and piled drifts up to 30 feet in depth. 5. (A) is correct. |