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Show ASK ME A Quiz With Answers J Offering Information ANOTHER f on Various Subjects I 1 The Questions 1. What does the phrase "by and large" mean? 2. Who are the Jukes? 3. What is a consanguineous marriage? 4. In writing the international distress call signal SOS, are periods pe-riods used after the letters? 5. Which country is known as the "Pearl of the Antilles"? 6. Why is a book called a volume? vol-ume? 7. What are the Houyhnhnms? 8. What is the longest serial story ever published? 9. What did Theodore Roosevelt say about there being room for but one language in the United States? The Answers 1. Comprehensively, on the whole. 2. The Jukes are a celebrated family of imbeciles and criminals to whom students of heredity have given this fictitious nam'e. 3. Marriage to a person who is j related to you. . j 4. No. The letters were chosy merely for their simplicity, ana ' do not represent words. 5. Cuba 'the largest and richest of the West Indian islands. 6. Egypt developed papyrus, which was then rolled and tied. This accounts for the word volume, vol-ume, which comes from the Latin word meaning to roll. 7. Fictitious characters in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" possessing pos-sessing the form of both man and horse. 8. It is "The Married Life of Helen and Warren," by Mabel Herbert Urner, which has been running for over 20 years. 9. In a letter read at the All-American All-American festival, New York, he said: "We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house." j |