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Show Jisk Me Jlnoiher Q A General Quiz 1. What is meant by the Great Divide? 2. What king was known as the "Father of His Country"? 3. Who said, "Better read one man than ten books"? 4. Can the President of the United Unit-ed States declare war? 5. What is a posthumous child? 6. Of what ancestry was Cleopatra? Cleo-patra? 7. Is Jerusalem a walled city? 8. What statesman has the most places in the United States named for him? Answers 1. It is a colloquial term for the Continental divide, which separates sep-arates streams which flow to the opposite side of the continent. 2. Alfred the Great of England. 3. The quotation is from "Chesterfield's "Ches-terfield's Letters to His Son." 4. The President cannot declare war. Congress alone has that power. 5. One born after the death of the father. 6. She was of Greek ancestry. 7. It is still a walled city. The missing stones in the old wall have been replaced. It is possible to walk along the top of the wall. 8. Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin have the largest number of towns and counties named in their honor. |