Quiz style trivia from an old General Knowledge page
A reader quiz lists questions about Alaska versus Texas, Arlington estate owner, Don Quixote, round-table knights, absentee voting for soldiers, Grand Banks location, doll drums meaning, and patriot versus patriarch definitions. Answers identify Alaska twice Texas size, Gen Robert E Lee, Don Quixote, to avoid distinction, yes Civil War soldiers could vote, Newfoundland, calms in tropical oceans, patriot as lover of country and patriarch as founder or elder.
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Alaska
Texas
Arlington National Shrine
Knights
United States
Grand Banks
Robert E. Lee
Don Quixote
Newfoundland
Regains His Farm After Forcible Eviction Ends Long Battle
Ernest N Kalb regains occupancy of his Sharon Wisconsin farm after a long foreclosure dispute begun 11 years earlier by Henry and Helen Feuerstein. Federal Judge F Ryan Duffy approved the decision by George H Belton Walworth county mortgage conciliator keeping Kalb on the 120 acre property amid prior sheriff sale and resistance by deputies.
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Elkhorn
Wil
Sharon
Ernest N. Kalb
F. Ryan Duffy
Milwaukee Journal
George H. Belton
Walworth County
Kalb
Henry
Helen Feuerstein
Belton
Feuersteins
George O’brien
Philip F. la Follette
Roscoe Luce
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Duffy
New British Armored Car Sets Mark in Fire Power
London reports the EAC Armored Car Mark II a 12 ton diesel powered vehicle capable of 18 to 42 mph. It mounts a six pounder anti tank gun and machine guns with armor protection front one and a quarter inches and sides one inch.
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London
EAC
Eden Addresses Foreign Policy Missteps Quote
London reports Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told a House of Commons luncheon that a friend reproached him about facing Hitler in the last war. Eden recalled a joke: a friend asked if Eden was opposite Hitler and Eden said yes, then the friend suggested he be shot for missing him.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Hitler
Woman Matador Gored Fights On in Colombia
Conchita Cintron, renowned as the world’s only woman bullfighter, was gored in the leg by her first bull but killed two ring bulls before she surrendered to the crowd’s insistence. The audience awarded her the ears of the first bull and the tail of the second.
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Bogota
Colombia
Conchita Cintron
Conchita
Golf changes ahead as public courses expand after war
Golf expert Gene Sarazen predicts a postwar shift from exclusive clubs to public courses with feeders to private clubs. He urges lower costs and new materials, while Leo Diegel pushes golf as therapy, citing a nine hole convalescent course at Valley Forge General Hospital and PGA led nationalization efforts.
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Gene Sarazen
Sarazen
Leo Diegel
Diegel
PGA
Golfers’ Union
Valley Forge General Hospital
Philadelphia
Notable sports figures highlighted with Navy commission and golf feats
Nashville ballpark Sulphur Dell is referenced. Roger Downs formerly of Northwestern, Big Ten singles champion 1943, is commissioned ensign at Navy Air Station Richmond Florida. Chester Lestman is noted for holing out consecutive tee shots on Detroit Fair Hills holes 1 and 2, scoring 34 for the front nine.
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Nashville
Sulphur Dell
Roger Downs
Northwestern University
Navy Air Station
Richmond
Fla
Chester Lestman
Detroit
Fair Hills
Hairy sea monster sighted in Chile town
Paris reports a five yard long hairy sea monster weighing over 4000 pounds stalking streets in an unidentified Chile town. It caused hours of panic before retreating to the sea and vanishing.
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Chile
Paris
Vichy Radio
Saga of Seas Ends with Death of Last of Three Seafaring Friends
Peter E. Lind 91, last of the three Muskeeters, dies in Los Angeles County Hospital after months with a broken leg and a stroke. A Dane John Larson and a Swede Charlie Eriison preceded him, all lifelong seafarers from San Pedro who sailed together for six decades. The trio, known as the unholy alliance, once traded waves from the East Indies to the Pacific Northwest and even appeared in films like Old Ironsides and Nag Po.
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San Pedro
Calif
Peter E. Lind
John Larson
Charlie Eriison
John Eriicson
Lind
Finn
Los Angeles County Hospital
Seven Seas
East Indies
Krakatoo
Pacific Northwest
California
Australian Seized for Murder Teeth Are Clue
Antonio Agostini, 41, an Italian waiter living in Sydney, is charged with murdering his wife Linda Agostini in Melbourne on August 26 1934. The so called Albury Pajama Girl murder case involved a formally preserved body later identified by a Sydney dentist’s work.
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Melbourne
Antonio Agostini
Sydney
Linda
Agostini
Albury
New South Wales
Platt
Australia
England
Judge Approves Custody in Family Case
Salt Lake City District Judge George A Faust awards custody of John eight James ten and Paul twelve to Sergeant Clifton Willis a year after he married the boys mother. The judge notes a fine and friendly family relationship after questioning the child about spanking and names.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
George A. Faust
John Beaver
Jack
Johnny
John
James
Paul
Sergt Clifton Willis
Aussie Talking Skull Loses Voice in New Guinea
Claudius the talking skull once supplied Australian troops in Netherlands New Guinea with speaking commentary and gifts of food. After the ventriloquist officer left, Claudius lost his voice and the troops lost their fresh rations.
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Netherlands New Guinea
Claudius
Immense Sponges Found Off Bahamas in Giant Catch
A sponge measured ten feet in girth and weighed 100 pounds when dried from a bed off the Bahamas. The catch requires a harpoon to detach the root, a 20 to 30 foot bamboo rod, and many helpers. A diver then trims the surface mass from the gelatinous giant.
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Bahamas
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Eden
Western News
Saga of Seas
Fearless Tars
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Manhattan
ST. Louis
St. Joseph
National Cotton Council P
Memphis
Tennnessee
Dr. C. M. Coe, Inc
Pine ST
Corera
Chae
Prom” Pigelow
Mary Bell
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