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Show ASK ME j A uiz mth Ans N mT T y Ottering Information J ) i. IT. Jli 1L I on Various Subjects I 1. Whpre Ih the coldest plnce thnt temperature' has been measured? meas-ured? 2. WI10 liuve been the subject of the greatest number of bi-Oll'iiphie.S? bi-Oll'iiphie.S? 3. What has been proclaimed the national hinnuanc of the Philippine Phil-ippine commonweullh? 4. In what way are the Ten Commandments divided? 5. In sailor lore, who or what Is Davy Jones? 0. What is a levirale marriage? 7. What is the diving record recently re-cently established by a diver in Lake Michigan? 8. If the vice president is not serving as president of the senate, how can a vote be avoided? 0. What is the name of the peninsula pen-insula in Greece inhabited by monks where no woman has ever visited? 10. Why docs the children's song, "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" say bush when the mulberry mul-berry is a tree? The Answers 1. The pole of cold is in northern north-ern Siberia at Verkhoyansk, where the lowest official temperature temper-ature was 90.4 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. 2. Jesus of Nazareth and Napoleon. Napo-leon. Among Americans, Abra- j ham Lincoln and George Washington Wash-ington lead. 3. Tagalog, a Malay dialect in fluenced by Spanish, Kngli.sh and Chinese. 4. The first four relate lo sncrcd duties, while the other six refer to secular, or our duties to our neighbor. 5. The evil spirit of the sea. 6. This was a custom, particularly particu-larly among the ancient Hebrews, whereby a man married his brother's broth-er's widow, even though he already al-ready had a wife. 7. A new low of 420 feet under water was the record made by Max E. Nohl in Lake Michigan. 8. No one would be able to cast a deciding vote. 9. Mount Athos, a peninsula of Greece, is inhabited entirely by monks and lay brothers. The jnly woman who has ever visited there is Queen Elizabeth of Rumania. Special police guard the point where the peninsula joins the mainland. 10. While the American mulberry mulber-ry is a large tree, the French mulberry mul-berry is a shrub growing to a height of not over 6 feet. This may easily be the bush of the old song. |