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Show ASK ME ) A Quiz With Answers y Offering Information AN OTH ER J n Various Subjects I 6. No. It's a household insect. 7. For John Macadam, who invented in-vented the process. 8. The only persons in the United Unit-ed States who cannot obtain a patent, pat-ent, or hold a right or interest in a patent, except by inheritance or bequest, are the officers and employees em-ployees of the Patent office. 9. Insulation is separating by nonconducting materials. Isolation Isola-tion means being apart, secluded. However, that which is insulated, is also isolated. 10. Carrousel, meaning a merry-go-round, is a word from the French, and means a tournament, a tilting match. It was applied to the maneuver of cavalry troops in an exhibition of various evolutions. The name was given to the merry-go-round because of the resemblance resem-blance to a tournament of cavalrymen. . The Questions 1. What does being sent to Coventry Cov-entry mean? 2. What is the national language of Brazil? 3. Is there any difference between be-tween savor and flavor? 4. What is meant by a country's favorable balance of trade? 5. A procurator, a peregrinator and a promulgator. One is a lawyer, law-yer, one a publisher, and the other a traveler.- Which is which? 6. Is a silverfish a member of the finny tribe? 7. Why are macadam roads so called? 8. Can any person in the United States obtain a patent? 9. What is the difference between be-tween insulation and isolation? 10. From where is the word carrousel car-rousel derived? The Answers 1. To be excluded from the society so-ciety of the people to which one belongs. 2. Portuguese. 3. Flavor refers more specifically specifical-ly to odor and savor to taste. However, the words are generally synonymous. 4. More exported than imported. 5. Lawyer, traveler and publisher, publish-er, respectively. i |
