Quiz Answers From An Old General Knowledge Page
Answers include The Styx for question one and a ship in the Indian Ocean for two. Knee for five and a lens that is one rounded on both sides. Dartmoor prison lies in Devonshire. Celestial Empire refers to China. A satrap is a military governor. The Bayou State is Mississippi. Fagin appears in Oliver Twist. Miss Pinkerton is by Mary Roberts Rinehart. A ship's log is its daily record.
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Achilles
Dartmoor
Bayou
Miss Pinker
Styx
Busi
Devonshire
China
Mississippi
Oliver Twist
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Its Daily Record
Hollywood Gossip and Casting Shifts Stir 1937 Talk
A roundup of film industry chatter notes Edward G Robinson praising Frank Capra for avoiding gangster films and bars on depicting his own people. Barbara Stanwyck anchors Stella Dallas with a rewritten mother role while Gone With the Wind hopes for a top heroine. Phil Baker beardly weighs film offers as Ritz Brothers struggle to skate for One in a Million. Wallace Ford seeks his mother before Christmas. radio shows Dot and Will thrive without sponsors. Ben Hur remake rumors brew with Gable and Taylor.
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Edward G. Robinson
Frank Capra
Capra
Robinson
Stella Dallas
Barbara Stanwyck
Fog Rain and Death on the U S Charleston
Navy tale recounts a 1908 superstition aboard the battleship U S Charleston. A prophecy of the ship’s explosion in Magdalena Bay on May 8 1908 spooked crew for hours as a mysterious tramp steamer approached. The ship passed by, then vanished. the crew exhausted by fear slept little, only to be relieved as dawn broke and the danger faded.
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Edward Wagness
New York City
United States Navy
Ed Wayness
U. S. Charleston
Newport News
Atlantic
West Coast
Horn
West
New York Harbor
Charleston
Navy
Magdalena Bay
Mexico
Pacific
San Diego
Calif
WNU Service
Death Valley Named for Fearsome Crossing by Forty-niners
Death Valley lies along California's extreme east border, more than 250 feet below sea level and over 100 miles long. Its sun-scorched, treeless basin hosted 6,000-foot mountain walls on its sides, a landscape the Forty-niners dreaded yet crossed when necessary.
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Death Valley
United States
California
Abbey Dates From A.D. 570
An early abbey at Buckfest predates the English kings with likely origin by St. Petrock, a Cornwall and Devon evangelist who died around 570. The Black Monks, current visitors, are among the first brethren referenced in the Rocky Mountain Herald report.
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Buckfest
England
St. Petrock
Cornwall
Devon
Rocky Mountain Herald
Beech tree and beechnuts described in detail
The beech is a common eastern North American hardwood. The genus Fagus derives from Greek for eat, referencing the beechnut fruit. Nuts are gathered across Europe, and many wild animals feed on them. Beech crops are irregular, with good crops only every three to four years. Beechnuts are small triangular nuts with tough husks and sweet, palatable meat.
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North America
Europe
Deliquescence Defined and Common Examples
Deliquescence is the property of absorbing water from the air to become wet or dissolve in the absorbed liquid. Substances that exhibit this behavior are called deliquescent, with examples including caustic potash caustic soda magnesium chloride and calcium chloride used as a drying agent.
Uncommon Americans Sam Hawken the Stradivarius of rifles
Samuel Hawken the St Louis gunsmith, partner Jacob Hawken, and their hand forged rifles defined frontier craftsmanship. Hawken sold rifles for 25 dollars, died 1849, shop sold in 1859, Sam returned 1861 and helped finish one last rifle now in the Missouri Historical Society collection.
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Sam” Hawken
St. Louis
Samuel Hawken
Maryland
Jacob Hawken
Samuel
Hawken
Meramec River
Missouri
John P. Gemmer
Sam
Gemmer
Missouri Historical Society
Button Gwinnett Autograph Worth Record Prices
The piece notes Button Gwinnett as the rare autograph among Declaration signers. It cites Rosenbach purchases from 1926 1927, including a 51 000 letter signed by Gwinnett and earlier wills and promissory notes fetching 22 500 and 28 500 respectively.
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John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Button Gwinnett
Gwinnett
England
America
Georgia
Continental Congress
Lachlin McIntosh
McIntosh
Immortals
A. S. W. Rosenbach
Button Gwinnetts
Rosenbach
Button
Busy Sunbonnet Girls Tea Towels Pattern Preview
Seven small sunbonnet maidens illustrated for a set of seven tea towels. Pattern 918 includes transfer motifs about 5 by 7% inches each, stitch instructions, color suggestions, and materials. Send 15 cents for pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York NY with name and address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Foreign Phrases and Their Meanings in History
A compact listing explains phrases from Latin and French with English glosses. Entries include bonhomie meaning good nature and credulity, commune bonum the common good,Parole d honneur word of honor, and tempus nullum varying with time.
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Grisette
Mindful Social Mores and Gentle Advice
A collection of aphorisms and maxims on friendship, virtue, and propriety. It contrasts envy with generosity, notes the giraffe’s lack of grace, and urges adherence to propriety and consideration. It questions gendered advice about managing spouses and calls for restraint in storytelling.
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LUDEN
Cooper
Ree Leef
le Importan
Dr. R. _ Pierce
Buffalo
York
Isteran
Will ‘Oaahere
Panuscripts
Alter R. Lars Me
Sean Ter Avene
Phil Baker
Samuel Goldwyn
Paramount
Ritz Brothers
Sonja Henie
Miss Henie
Wallace Ford
Ford
Dot
Will
Ben Hur
Clark Gable
Robert Taylor
Hollywood
Irene Fenwick
Lionel Barrymore
Miss Fenwick
Bette Davis
Merle Oberon
Brian Aherneily Lowch
Apieer
Allah
Greta Garbo
Aina
Floyd Gibbons
Elmo Scott Watson
Sam Hawken
Jewel
al AO
Gosker
Coleman Lamp
Wichita
Kans
Chicseo
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Vera Cruz
Imi
Quaker State
Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation
Oil City
Pennsylvania
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