Quiz on history and geography from ARELAR materials
Questions cover poets, empire, railroads, anatomy, sun exposure, Babel, tunnels and lengths, religious figures, Canadian population, and female Congress members. Answers provided include Babylon, 1,539 rails totaling 320 miles, Preachers, 11,012,734, and list of nine women including Hattie Caraway and Jeannette Rankin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babylon
United States
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Caroline O’day
New York
Jessie Sumner
Illinois
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Margaret Smith
Maine
Katharine Byron
Maryland
Answers to five questions from the historical quiz
Henry W. Longfellow is identified with The Building of the Ship. The quiz highlights Peru as a location. It notes the approximate distance of about 236000 miles. It states humans retain at least 180 vestigial organs once vital but now largely useless. It explains sunburn results from ultraviolet rays of the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Longfellow
Peru
The Glutton and the Spar Row in a Street Show
A street performer proclaims he will swallow coal stones nails and a sword to earn bread. A crowd questions hunger and a sparrow chats with a battered friend about feather loss. A boy by the wall jokes about catching fish and a passerby asks about a raincoat.
New Effective Hay Fever Relief Emerges
A Pennsylvania engineer’s salt-sensitive corn mush prompted discovery of hay fever relief. Dr E E Selleck and Hol lings Smith Co endorse a remedy Nakamo Beil after clinics showing rapid relief within ten minutes and marked symptom cessation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
E. E. Selleck
Columbia University
Hollings-Smith Company
Orangeburg
New York
Nakamo Beil
Selleck
Greatest Fool There's no fool like the young fool
A Bombay Chronicle quotation notes that youth who imitate old folly are no wiser than the true fools. The quip underscores humor about age and pretended maturity in public speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay Chronicle
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Hal
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ED Wheelan
DR. Ames
Silk" Fowler
Yane
Lala Palooza
Bull’s Eye
Rube Goldberg
MLL
Glub
Sa Frank
Missus foomFe
Huntley
BY C. M. Payne
Bach
Pop
Lang Armstrong
J. Millar Watt
EAC
Eth
Tower of Babel
Phillips Brooks
Henry Ward Beecher
Lyman Abbott
Dominion of Canada
Sonny
Tom
Tim
Edward
America
King Edwarn
ORLD
Ilia
Spee SR
Lil
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