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Show Who Knows.5 1. What famous sea captain lost a leg to a whale? 2. Helena is the capital of which state? 3. Who was the first U.S. president to attend an international interna-tional conference abroad? 4. What was Mark Twain's real name? 5. Who presides over the Senate? 6. What was the salary of a U.S. Senator in 1953? 7. What did the Dirigible Graf Zeppelin accomplish in October, 1928? 8. When did Nikita Khrushchev Khrush-chev lose his political power? 9. How many gallons of water wa-ter are there in 1 inch of rain over 1 acre surface? 10. Which two states claim the birthplace of Andrew Jackson? ANSWERS TO WHO KNOWS 1. Captain Ahab in Melville's Melvil-le's "Moby Dick." 2. Montana. 3. Woodrow Wilson-at the Versailles peace conference in 1919. 4. Samuel Clemens. 5. The Vice President. 6. $12,500 a year, with $2,500 expense allowance. 7. It flew from Friedrich-shafen, Friedrich-shafen, Germany to Lake-hurst, Lake-hurst, N.J., Oct. 11-15 and returned re-turned Oct. 29-31. 9. Approximately 27,143 gallons. 10. North and South Carolina. |