Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 November 1939 — Ask Me Another A General Quiz [ARTICLE]

Ask Me Another A General Quiz

The Questions 1. Where is Independence square? Red square? Union square? Trafalgar square? 2. What is the difference between parole and probation? 3. Can you name a country or continent that starts with “A” but does not end with an “a”? 4. Is it correct to say “Anybody can do as they please”? 5. Was a President’s child ever born in the White House? 6. What city in the United States is directly south of the North pole? 7. What is the estimated education of our population? 8. Where would you look for • fly leaf in a book? 9. How wide and high is the Victoria falls? 10. “All my possessions for a moment of time!” were the words spoken on the deathbed of what famous person? The Answers 1. Philadelphia, Moscow’, New York and London, respectively. 2. Parole is a conditional release of a prisoner from jail; probation is a suspended sentence of one convicted but not sent to jail. 3. Afghanistan. 4. No. “Anybody can do as he pleases” is correct. \ 5. Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther, whose birthday was September 9, 1893, was the only President's child born in White House. 6. All of them. 7. The median education of the country as a whole is completion of elementary school. Of the nation’s adults, 3.32 per cent are college graduates; 15.1 per cent are high school graduates. 8. Immediately inside the cover. 9. Victoria falls on the Zambezi river near Livingstone in Southern Rhodesia, is a mile wide and 350 feet high. On a clear day, its great clouds of spray are visible for 20 miles. 10. Queen Elizabeth of England.