General Quiz Answers Reveal Surprising Facts
The questions cover topics from explosives to geography and government. Notable facts include gasoline's higher explosive power than dynamite, Capitol floor space of 14 acres, and Italy described as a corporative state with Mussolini as head. Amsterdam is the capital, contradicting common assumptions about The Hague.
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Washington, D. C
Golden Gate Bridge
Wall Street
Italy
Netherlands
George Granger Brown
University of Michigan
Council of Corporations
Mussolini
William Cullen Bryant Kemp
Columbia University
Amsterdam
Hague
Palm Beach Fashion Bride Leads to Palm Beach Reunion
Brooke, a former model at Carston's Inc, faces career loss and personal upheaval while planning a New York premier. Mark Trent returns to support her as she fronts a charity wedding show, culminating in a surprised wedding procession and renewed tension between them.
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Mary Amanda Dane
Brooke
Lucette
Jerry Field
Sam
Mark
Mark Trent
Lookout House
Carston’s Inc
Carston’s, Inc
Madame Celeste
Cherie
New England
Sidone
Palm Beach
Jerry
Darling
P. S
Jed Stewart
New York
Express
Mary Amanda
Jed
Miss Reyburn
Mr. Trent
Daphne Field
Carstons Inc
Gleek
Lohengrin
Transvaal
Sew-Your-Own Patterns Promote Winter Girls Wea
An advertising piece touts Sew-Your-Own outfits for boys and girls with the Sophomore Sensation and Mother models. It details pattern numbers 1965 1359 and 1402 for sizes 4 to 46, material estimates, and instructions from Paris with fashion notes. Readers are urged to order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept at 211 W. Wacker Drive Chicago TI, price 15 cents per pattern and pattern book.
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Young America
Miss Modern
Santa Claus
Milady
Paris
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Drive
Chicago
Barbara Bell
Advertising and Auto Prices Through Time
A historical note explains that a car once cost about $5,000 a third century ago, while today a better car can be bought for around $700. Advertising spurred demand, which drove mass production, created jobs, and improved quality and affordability.
Ancient tunneling origins traced to Egyptian and Babylonian plots
A Washington Post correspondent recounts how ancient Egyptians observed streams in hills to conceive tunnels and built them in tombs. Builders later bored water channels, with the Babylonians advancing beneath the Euphrates, marking the start of subaqueous underwater tunneling and its perilous history.
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Euphrates River
Wa Gton Post
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BA Ae
Emilie Loring
Daphne
Anne Gregory
Denton
Denton’s
Facial Magnesia Select Products, Inc
Bstage
COR School OF Singing
Wurlitzer
Detroit, Mich
Blackman
Blackman Stock Medicine CO
Chattanooga, Tenn
By Fred Neher
Willyam
Meheir
Mrs. Dolan
Madam
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