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Show Jlsk Me JlnoiKer O General Quiz The Questions 1. What is an alliteration? i 2. Claustrophobia is the fear of what? 3. Can anything that has been done be undone? 4. What is the largest number used? 5. What is the date of the flood In the Bible? 6. Is brass mined? 7. What is the difference between be-tween being interested and curious? cu-rious? 8. Is there any soda in soda water? 9. Are there any of the books of the Bible in which God is not mentioned? men-tioned? The Answers 1. The recurrence of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence in close succession, as: "An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade." 2. Confined spaces. 3. Try unscrambling an egg. 4. A vigintillion is the highest figure listed in numeration and consists of a numeral followed by 63 noughts. 5. According to Hebrew chronology, chronol-ogy, the deluge destroyed the earth in 2348 B. C. 6. No. Brass is an alloy of copper cop-per and zinc, which are mined. 7. Being interested means ta have attention aroused. Curious is generally used to mean a desire to learn that which does not concern con-cern one. 8. No. It is properly called carbonated car-bonated water. 9. The words "God," "Lord" and "Almighty" are not mentioned men-tioned in the book of Esther, nor is the deity so much as alluded to in that portion of the Old Testament. Testa-ment. The deity is not specifically specifical-ly mentioned in the Song of Solomon, Solo-mon, but that book is symbolical and the deity is continually alluded al-luded to. "God," under one name or another, occurs in all the other books of the Bible. i I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to give grandly ' can ask nobly and with boldness. , Lavater. i |