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Show O- C- O" O" O- 0 O" O" O" O- P O- O- 1 v C fr I ASK MS O ANOTHER f f i A General Quiz The Questions 1. How many stairs to the top of Washington monument? 2. What is a recidivist? 3. The Arc d'Triomphe in Paris was built to commemorate the victories of what ruler? 4. What is the area of Guam Island? 5. What mythological character ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx? 6. Who was the mother of Solomon? Solo-mon? 7. What fictional character trained boys and girls to be thieves Raffles, Fagin or Macaw-ber? Macaw-ber? 8. How did Fahrenheit, the inventor in-ventor of the first mercury thermometer, ther-mometer, come to set the zero degree de-gree mark? The Answers 1. There are 898 stairs. 2. A habitual criminal. 3. Napoleon. 4. Guam Island is 206 square miles in area. 5. Charon. 6. Bath-sheba. 7. Fagin. 8. When Gabriel Fahrenheit indented in-dented the first mercury thermometer ther-mometer in Danzig in 1709, he established es-tablished his zero degree at the lowest point to which the quicksilver quick-silver sank during the winter of that year in his city, a standard that has never been changed. |