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Show Isk Me Another Q A General Quiz 1. What is the Maelstrom, and where is it? 2. Why does a star precede th number on some United Statea currency? 3. Are the Niagara falls moving steadily upstream? 4. What is the average thickness of hippopotamus hide? 5. Has any woman received the Nobel prize more than once? 6. What besides chameleons change their color? 7. What is a scaramouche? 8. What statesman referred to a political opponent as a sophisticated sophisticat-ed rhetorician, inebriated with the exhuberance of his own verbosity? 9. How does the capacity of the lake above Boulder dam compare with that of Gatun lake in Panama? Pan-ama? 10. How much does it cost to open the gates of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock at Akron? , Answers 1. A celebrated whirlpool or violent current in the Arctic ocean near the western coast of Norway. 2. It indicates that that is a substitute bill issued to replace one that was defective. 3. The brink of Niagara falls is receding or moving back at the average of 2V2 feet a year. 4. Two inches. 5. In 1903 Mme. Curie received the Nobel award in physics jointly with her husband. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. 6. Certain frogs and fishes. 7. A ne'er-do-well. 8. Disraeli, in a speech in London Lon-don on July 27, 1878, referred to Gladstone in those words. 9. Lake Mead will store 30,500,-: -000 acre feet of water, while Gatun lake at normal level stores 4,204,000 acre feet of water. . 10. The cost of opening the doors of either end is approximately $1; that is, the cost of electricity used in swinging the doors is about that amount. The doors of the , Akron hangar weigh about 600 tons for each leaf or 1,200 tons for each end of the building. |