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Show ; " N l flSi'i f A quiz w?Jh answers offering Jfj . r. r- r- o- r- r- c r- r- o c- o.- o- c- c. o- r-. c-. The Questions 1. What South American country coun-try has a Colorado river? 2. What writer described the Brobdingnagians? 3. What is the weight of a gallon of pure water? 4. What is believed to be the oldest city in the world that is still inhabited? 5. The bundle of rods on the back of a dime is called what? 6. What is the largest star known? 7. Is a pound of feathers heavier than a pound of gold? 8. How many names of U. S. Presidents begin with A? 9. If a boat is clinker-built, what is its distinguishing feature? 10. What is a canon in music? The Answers 1. Argentina. 2. Swift (in "Gulliver's Travels," Trav-els," the inhabitants of a country where everything is of enormous size). 3. -One gallon of water weighs 8.355 pounds. t.i-.i-.i-- i ) ea 4. Damascus. -yit. 5. Fasces. c 8' 6. Antares (90,000,000 times lart S. 1 er than our sun). g, 7. Yes. Gold is weighed by th -destroy system, 12 ounces to th ;3-ia pound, while feathers are weighe 1'' by the avoirdupois measure (l;. ounces to the pound). from 8. Three John Adams, Jon.'1 Quincy Adams and Chester Ai C$ thur. 9. Its planks or plates overlap", c 10. A canon is a piece of musi Lj (usually religious) in two or mor , sUr parts, echoing each other. An eai", n ly specimen is "Non nobis, Dc!; 'iT! mine," composed by Birde in thf-a Fourteenth century. :.at;c e |