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Show C" c- o- r-- O" n c- c- o- o-- o- c- o- r- o- f-- o- o- p- I ASK MS ) another i A General Quiz ? c- c- c- e- o O" o- p- r-- o- c- r-c- o- O" o- c- The Questions 1. The word billingsgate, meaning mean-ing coarse and abusive language, is derived from where? 2. The tokay grape gets its name from a district in what country? coun-try? 3. A somniloquist is one who does what? s 4. Who was the victorious general gen-eral at the historical battle of Cannae? 5. About how much of the earth's atmosphere is composed of oxygen? 6. The treaty of Portsmouth terminated a war between what countries? 7. An albino animal results from lack of what? 8. Who was the inventor of dynamite? 9. How many times louder can a normal man shout than he can whisper? 10. If, after the war, you wished to fly around the world, how long would it take you? The Answers 1. A fish market in London. 2. Hungary. 3. Talks in his sleep. 4. Hannibal. 5. Twenty-one per cent by volume. vol-ume. 6. Japan and Russia. 7. Pigment (in skin, hair and eyes). 8. Alfred Nobel. 9. Recent studies of the differences differ-ences between the loudest and faintest sounds that can be produced pro-duced and heard by human beings disclose that a normal man can shout 1,060,000 times louder than he can whisper and that he can hear sounds having a range in intensity in-tensity 10,000 times greater than that of his voice. 10. You would need to spend only one week in the air. |