Show ASK ME M V A quiz with wilh answers TV TT M t r offering information ANOTHER ANO rh E R on various subjects the questions 1 what is meant by the quick and the dead 2 what is the lightest substance known to science 3 what is free verse 4 how many people does one congressman represent 5 when was the first opera presented 6 how fast do radio waves travel 7 what is the national secrets act 8 what was the name of the pioneer who traveled the oregon trail by covered wagon automobile and air 9 how many cables are there in the atlantic and pacific oceans 10 what is the largest office building in the world the answers 1 the living and the dead the word quick being derived from the anglo saxon meaning living or animate 2 the element hydrogen 3 verse that does not depend on rhyme or meter but does have a certain rhythm 4 under the present apportionment law each member of congress represents approximately people 5 eurydice the first opera was presented at florence in 1600 6 radio waves travel at the speed of light about miles per second 7 public no seventy fifth congress prohibits the making of photographs sketches or maps of vital military and naval defensive installations and equipment and for other purposes 8 ezra meeker founder of the oregon trail memorial association left ohio in 1851 with his bride in a covered wagon and crossed to the west coast over the oregon trail sixty three years later he made the trip by automobile and in 1923 by airplane 9 the federal communications commission says that at the present time there are 20 cables in the north atlantic 7 in the south atlantic and 3 in the pacific 10 in the point of gross floor area the R C A building in rockefeller center new york city claims this distinction |