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Show ASK MS ) ANOTHER I A General Quiz ? ev- e- c- c- r- o- r- o- p- c. p- o- c- o- r- c c- f- The Questions 1. Which are the world's tallest people? 2. Who was Atalanta? 3. What is the meaning of the stage direction "omnes exeunt"? . 4. How many states were admitted ad-mitted to the Union during the Civil war? 5. What are the heaviest things known? 6. What is a touchstone? The Answers 1. The Shilluks, living In the Egyptian Sudan. They average nearly seven feet in height. 2. A beautiful mythological creature, crea-ture, fleet of foot, who challenged her suitors to a race, death being the penalty of defeat, her hand the prize. 3. All go out. 4. Two West Virginia and Nevada. Ne-vada. 5. The very faint stars in our sky called "white dwarfs." One cubic inch of a "white dwarf" may weigh 500 tons. 6. A stone used for testing the purity of gold or silver. Any standard stand-ard or test for determining the quality of something. |