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Show ASK ME J ? ANOTHER i A General Quiz o-o-o-o-o-o-p-o-o-o-p-o-p-c-o-r-o-c-o- 1. What does chicanery mean? 2. Why are macadamized roads so called? 3. Who was the tallest President of the United States? Who was the shortest? 4. How many lines has a sonnet? son-net? 5. What is the status of children born in this country of alien par- ents? 6. How many states meet where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers merge? 7. Why is a stiff hat called a derby? 8. Who was Jean Lafitte? 9. Give three words that are pronounced alike, are spelled differently dif-ferently and each has a different meaning. 10. Why is the name of Peter Stuyvesant remembered? The Answers 1. Trickery or sharp practice, especially in legal proceedings. 2. That type of road was invented invent-ed by John Loudon McAdam, a Scottish engineer. 3. Abraham Lincoln was our tallest President, at six feet four inches. James Madison, five feet four inches, was the shortest. 4. Fourteen. 5. They are citizens of the United Unit-ed States. 6. Three Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. 7. That type of hat was first worn at the Earl of Derby's race track. 8. An American buccaneer. 9. Do, first note in the musical scale; doe, a female deer, and dough, soft mass of moistened flour. 10. He was the last Dutch governor gover-nor of what is now New York. |