Quiz Questions From a Quiz Book About History
A list of trivia prompts includes asking which conquerors marched in Berlin in two centuries, how many US presidents were sworn in under a cloud, and which biblical figure fastened torches to fox tails. It notes methods of Finland's parliament voting, the Cooper Union speaker, and cites Catherine the Great and Napoleon as examples, plus a reference to Lincoln.
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Berlin
United States
Finland
Cooper Union
Drass
A World War II Ferry Pilot Remembers Burma Missions
Col. Robert L. Scott recalls his swift wartime flight duties in Assam Burma and India where he and colleagues ferried high octane fuel ammunition and supplies to the AVG Flying Tigers. He describes tense air raids over Lashio Leiwing Kunming and Shwebo and a perilous shuttle through jungles and storms while dodging Japanese forces.
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Sree
Burma
Cai
Co C. Haynes
AL . C
Assam
Sittang
Hangoon
Heynes
Coover
Lashio
Flying Tigers
Haynes
Cooper
Tomrey
Danid
Douglas
Bonner
Tokyo
Air Force
A. B.C
Josh Reynolds
Seathotte
Brehmaputra
Jon
Tex Carleton
Bob Sexton
Naga Hills
Karachi
Leiwing
Ferther
Kunming
China
AVG
Loiwing
Chennault
Beld
Micky” Mehalko
Avgs
Rndio
Paoshan
Yunnanyi
Indo-China
Haines
Shwebo
Mandalay Rangoor
Sitweil
Irrawaddy
Ammisca
Lower Burma
Mekong
Myitkyine
General Stilwell
Myitkyina
Ito
Sewing Circle Pattern Offer for Crochet Bag Instructions
Sewing Circle Needlework advertises the Shopping Bag of Crochet Cotton with complete directions for the String Marketing Bag Pattern No. 5299. Send 1 cent, name, address, and pattern number for delivery, noting high demand and wartime delays.
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South Welly St
Chicazo
Household Tactics and Cooking Snippets From a 1900s Page
A compact collection of kitchen tips and home care notes. It covers crisp juicy bacon, dusting before frying, cleaning up after painting with a paper plate holder, pastry failures from overworking and too much water, adding mint oil to chocolate pie, threading inside seams for wears, suede cleaning with sandpaper, and trimming soap box corners for controlled flow.
Bless the Soldier Socks: A Sock Knitter Note
A marching soldier feels pain in a shoe at Griffield then returns to base. He removes his boot to reveal a neatly wedged paper in the sock toe. The note reads Bless the soldier who wears these socks.
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Marchine
Griffield
Growth of Cadet chapel pipe organ at West Point
The Cadet chapel at West Point houses an expanding pipe organ. Installed in 1911 with 2,418 pipes and a $12,000 cost, it now has 13,529 pipes, is valued at $156,000, and stands as the largest church organ in the Western Hemisphere due to memorial contributions in graduates’ names.
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West Point
Hemisphere
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Catherne the Great
Napoleon
Samson
Abraham Lincoln
Willys Petia
Jeep
St Joseph Aspirin
Essen
Far East
Acto Tes
Bfgoodrich
Aust
Feeat Drugeists Corhh Yeates
GOD IS MY Oy
Col
Robert L. Scott
WENA
Robert Scott
Kelly Field
Texas
Pansami
Bexna
Washinetac
Becaluzes
Hhey
America
Bint
Florida
India
VOI
Arcbian Sea
Rangoon
Andaman Islands
Delhi
Ynes
Eestern
Assarh
Xived
Asseni
Erestes
Amison
Beg
Meriam C. Cooper
U. S
Ousehold
Fen Ash Lust Reestrie
Moroline Fair
Mony Teer
Cher
Suma
Sioux City
Hop
Bishop
Kellogg’s
Clabber
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