OCR Text |
Show ? A quiz with answers .offering ? "S'&i Ef information on various subjects The Questions 1. What "ocean port" is 1,000 miles from the sea? 2. A document written wholly in the handwriting of the purported author is called what? 3. Personal income taxation in the United States began with the levy of a faculty tax by what state in 1643? 4. Why do sailors have 13 buttons but-tons across the top of the trousers? trous-ers? 5. What is meant when we say a person died intestate? 6. How many of the following documents were signed in Independence Inde-pendence hall, Philadelphia: The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, The Constitution of the United States? 7. Why can't you slam a cupboard cup-board door? 8. A word having the same pronunciation pro-nunciation as another, but differ ing from it in origin, meaning and often spelling, is called what? 9. What is. the difference between be-tween avenge and revenge? 10. What two letters of the alphabet alpha-bet begin the most words in our English dictionary, and what two letters begin the smallest number? num-ber? The Answers 1. Montreal. 2. A holograph. 3. Massachusetts. 4. They stand for the 13 original states. 5. Leaving no valid will. 6. All three. 7. Because the air in the cupboard cup-board becomes suddenly compressed com-pressed and acts as a brake. 8. A homonym. 9. Avenge means to punish on behalf of another, while revenge means to punish on one's own behalf. be-half. 10. First S, then C. Smallest amount, X, then Z. |