Answers to 20 General Knowledge Questions
A list of 20 quiz style questions covers peaks, battles, figures, geography, art, law, religion, and science. Topics include Canada’s highest peak, Gettysburg, Kit Carson ancestry, diamonds in the U.S., Beance painter, English story writers, crabs, legal impertinence, the Lords Prayer, prison literature, U.S. peak heights, Futurity winner, pathfinder, revolutionary victory, fly taste, living violinists, coconuts, grammar, and Christian Science discovery dates.
Answers and items from a mixed historical quiz list
A compilation of numbered Q A pairs including names like Walt Whitman and Grover Cleveland, places such as Savannah and Camberly, and entries on topics from navigation to language rules. It references figures like Commander Byrd and Ben Turpin and notes facts about coconut meat and carnivorous animals.
Royal Wife Rebuked by Prince Consort
Albert, prince consort to Queen Victoria, quietly endured a difficult role often misunderstood by his era. A Kansas City Star writer notes his tact, patience, and occasional firm lessons, as Victoria demanded his return during a royal council dinner.
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Albert
Prince Consort
Queen Victoria
Kansas City Star
Council of
The
Royal Academy
Victoria
Buckingham Palace
Battle of Chalons Saves Central Europe, 451 AD
The Huns led by Attila swept western Europe until defeat at Chalons in eastern France in 451 A D. The joint forces of Rome and the Goths under Aetius and Theodoric repelled the invaders, halting the eastern threat.
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Europe
Attila
Chalons
France
Aetius
Theodoric
Central
New York Herald-Tribune
Violet rays help sick monkeys at New York zoo
Dr Charles V Noback reports ultraviolet radiation saved five ill zoological park animals including a red howling monkey a grivet and three lemurs from cage paralysis. Treatments used a quartz tube mercury lamp behind their backs for three to four weeks restoring movement appetite and eye brightness while avoiding sunburn on hairless areas.
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New York
New York Zoological Park
Charles V. Noback
Department of Comparative Medicine
Doctor Noback
Noback
Sweets Grow In Popularity Across America
Washington reports a surge in candy chewing gum and ice cream production from 1914 to 1925, with wholesale values rising from 17 million to 379 million for candy, 55.9 million to 286 million for ice cream, and 47.8 million to 700 million for gum. Experts project the three sectors may hit 1 billion annually. Prohibition, advertising, exports, and demand among children drive the increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Pastor rejects chimes in favor of Sunday features
A Seattle pastor refused an offer to buy chimes for a large church. He says bells are out of date and that a well planned Sunday ad will draw more worshippers than noisy chimes and not disturb late sleepers on the Sabbath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Why the Big Stamps Are Not Very Popular
New York reports post office officials blame the public’s reluctance to spend time moistening and affixing large stamps for falling demand. The Burgoyne 2 cent stamp and a Bennington battle stamp saw sales drop after an initial rush, with collectors buying early and businesses avoiding the extra effort.
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New York
Post Office
Burgoyne
Bennington
Edward P. Russell
Treasure Temple In Tlaxcala Found From Dream Inheritance
In Tlaxcala a temple to Camaxtli, chief god of the Tlaxcala before the conquest, is unearthed after Panfilo Sanchez claimed Xicotencatl appeared in a dream guiding diggers. Excavation reveals a polychrome temple with frescoes and sacrificial altars on a hilltop near Tizatlan.
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Mexico City
Cortez
Mexico
Camaxtli
Tlaxcala
Eduardo Noguera
Department of Archelogy
Ministry of Education
Tizatlan
Poison Ivy Garden at Minnesota Campus Sparks Sorrow
Two students from northern Minnesota visit a garden at a state university campus where a warning sign was ignored. After a romantic night the pair wake with a poison ivy like rash. The plot centers on a garden used for medical research.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota University
Minnesota
Woman Pilot Ruth Elder Aims Atlantic Flight Try
Ruth Elder, famed woman flyer, vows to attempt an New York to Paris Atlantic crossing despite recent disasters. She will travel with Captain George Haldeman aboard the Stinson-Detroiter named The American Girl.
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Ruth Elder
Atlantic
New York
Paris
George Haldeman
The Subconscious Mind and Hidden Emotions
The passage urges familiarity with the subconscious mind and urges to face feared secrets. It notes that emotions without clear justification reflect hidden causes and suggests seeking the underlying reason behind such feelings.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Canada
Battle of
Gettysburg
Kit Carson
Apostle of
England
Alaska
the “Pathfinder
America
Elman, Heifetz
Zimbalist
Seidel
Mary Baker Eddy
Nethon
Crusader
Savannah
1819
Liszt
T—Walt Whitman
Central Africa
the Cheviots
C. de Mar
John Adama
Grover Cleveland
R. E. Byrd
U. S
Ben Turpin
Camberly
London
Arctic
Antarctic
Isaiah
Mexican Wilds
Reygadas Vertiz
Department of Archeology
Reygadas
Poison Ivy Garden
California
al DeGarmo
Graham
Los Angeles
Sydney
Australia
Martin Place
Edwin Stuart Best
Boston
New England
Psychology Magazine
Horace Dodge, Jr
Honolulu
Manning
Fort Ruger
Hawaii
American Legion
Helen Purviance
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