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Show ANOTHER j A General Quiz J I 7Ae Question ! j 1. Approximately how much of i the total land acreage of the United Unit-ed States is covered with forests? 2. What is a peccadillo? 3. When was FDR first inaugu-i inaugu-i rated? 1 I 4. With what group of men is th. ' name Ethan Allen associated? j 5. What physical force throws ! people off revolving turntables at amusement parks? ; 6. What state, North or South Dakota, was admitted to the Union j first? 7. What bird Is mentioned most ' frequently in the Bible? ; 8. What country is largest in area, Belgium, Denmark or the i Netherlands? I 9. Approximately what propor-i propor-i tion of the total area of the United ! States do the southern states form? ' 10. Who was the first ambassador to the United States? f The Answers 1. Approximately one-third of the United States is covered with forests. , 2. A petty fault. : 3. Mafch 4, 1933. 4. The Green Mountain boys. 5. Centrifugal force. 6. Both were admitted to the Union on the same day, November Novem-ber 2, 1889. 7. Dove. 8. Denmark, area, 16,575 square miles; Belgium, 11,775 square miles; the Netherlands, 12,704 square miles. 9. One-fourth. 10. The first ambassador to the United States, Sir Julian Paunce- fote, was sent by Great Britain in 1889. The first minister was Pieter Johan Van Derckel from the Netherlands, Neth-erlands, who came on October 31, 1783. |