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Show ASK MS I ANOWm I A A General Quiz The Questions 1. The word billingsgate, meaning mean-ing coarse and abusive language, is derived from where? 2. The tokay grape gets its name from a district in what country? coun-try? 3. A somniloquist is one who does what? 4. Who was the victorious general gen-eral at the historical battle of Cannae? 5. About how much of the earth's atmosphere is composed of oxygen? 6. The treaty of Portsmouth terminated a war between what countries? 7. An albino animal results from lack of what? 8. Who was the inventor of dynamite? 9. How many times louder can a normal man shout than he can whisper? 10. If, after the war, you wished to fly around the world, how long would it take you? |