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Show A General Quiz . The Questions 1. Who divided the hour into 60 ninutes and the minutes into 60 ieconds? 2. What percent of our wartime irmy officers came up from the -anks? , 3. Does an elephant lie dowl when sleeping? 4. The donor of the Nobel prize nade his fortune in what? 5. What state has the lowest narriageable age for a girl with he consent of her parents? 6. Where is a world's fair planned for 1951? 7. Banana is a by-product ot what? J 8. The "stars" of Old Glory are not stars. According to heraldry, how many points does a star have? 9. What state in the United States has the most deep oil wells? 10. There are only two places in the United States where an American Amer-ican flag is flown 24 hours a day. Where are they? The Answers 1. The Chaldeans, about 4,000 B. C. 2. Sixty-one per cent. Of 872,000 officers, 531,000 were originally enlisted en-listed men. 3. No. ' Elephants sleep In a kneeling position. 4. Dynamite. 5. New Hampshire (13 years). J 6. In London as a demonstration demonstra-tion of Britain's recovery from the war. 7. Petroleum, 8. Six. 9. Louisiana with 94 drilled below be-low 12,000 feet in depth. California is next with 65 and Texas third with 41. 10. The Capitol in Washington when congress is in session and at the grave of Francis Scott Key. |