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Show ASK ME A Quiz With Answers y Offering Information f rC J I 11 KK I on Various Subjects 1 A The Questions 1. Can you write 600 in Roman numerals? 2. Is the income of the President Presi-dent taxable? 3. Who cut the Gordian Knot? 4. Which of our wars was known as Mr. Madison's war? 5. Which is the middle verse of the Bible? 6. Which woman has had more statues erected to her memory than any other woman? 7. Which race is increasing its population the fastest? 8. Do plants grow more at night than during the day? 9. Which is the correct quotation: quota-tion: "Far from the maddening crowd," or "Far from the madding mad-ding crowd"? 10. What per cent of the world's population is still governed by monarchs? The Answers 1. DC. 2. His salary as President is not. Any other income he may have, is. 3. Alexander the Great. 4. The War of 1812. 5. The eighth verse of the 118th Psalm. 6. Joan of Arc. 7. The white races of the world are doubling their populations every ev-ery 80 years, the yellow and brown races every 60 years and the black races every 40 years. 8. Although trees and other green plants require light to develop, devel-op, virtually all of their growth takes place at night. Those in ' dark or shaded places gTow faster than those exposed to brighter light. 9. "Far from the madding crowd," from Gray's Elegy. 10. Despite the widespread change in the governments since the World war, eight hundred million persons, or 40 per cent of the entire en-tire population of the globe, still are governed by kings, queens, emperors and other monarchs. |