{"id":684,"date":"2008-01-24T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=684"},"modified":"2008-01-24T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:24:39","slug":"684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/01\/24\/684\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

See the answers to the quiz below!!!<\/span>

I find myself just a bit unsettled this morning, and I’m not terribly sure why.  I could spend my post trying to figure out why and rambling on about the areas of my life where I’m less than satisfied.  But instead, I think I’ll just chalk it up to being a cold January in the middle of the long haul of the semester and focus on other things.  After all, I serve a God who always satisfies completely!  <\/p>\n

And for a little something different…here is a true\/false general knowledge quiz for you to test yourself with.  Answers to come later!

Quiz<\/span>
1. T\/F: <\/font>Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen after death.
FALSE – He was cremated and buried in a cemetary in California.<\/span>

2. T\/F: <\/font>Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy.
FALSE – The Etruscans, Romans, Egyptians and Greeks all had types of pasta before Polo’s travels<\/span><\/p>\n

3. T\/F: <\/font>Some mammals actually lay eggs instead of giving birth in the usual manner of most mammals.
TRUE – these mammals are called monotremes and include 5 species of spiny anteaters from Australia & New Guinea<\/span><\/p>\n

4. T\/F: <\/font>S.O.S. stands for “Save our Ship”.
FALSE – It doesn’t stand for anything.  Those letters were chosen because they’re easy to transmit.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. T\/F: <\/font>Key West is the westernmost Florida key.
FALSE – There are more western Keys (Dry Tortugas and Marquesas Keys)<\/span><\/p>\n

6. T\/F: <\/font>In the book of “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy wears silver shoes.
TRUE<\/span><\/p>\n

7. T\/F: <\/font>Bulls will charge at the color red.
FALSE – Bulls are colorblind<\/span><\/p>\n

8. T\/F: <\/font>Dracula was a real person.
TRUE – The character was named after a Romanian Tyrant who ruled in the 1400s (Vlad IV)<\/span><\/p>\n

9. T\/F: <\/font>“Frankenstein” was a monster made by a mad scientist.
FALSE – The scientist was Victor Frankenstein, his creation was never named.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. T\/F: <\/font>One would think the water in the Panama Canal would be salt but it’s not. It’s fresh.
TRUE – The water runs into the canal from lakes and streams.<\/span><\/p>\n

11. T\/F: <\/font>John F. Kennedy was the youngest President of the United States.
FALSE – Teddy Roosevelt was 42.  JFK was 42 when elected, but 43 when officially inaugurated. <\/span>

12. T\/F: <\/font>William Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet” (Act 5, Scene 1), “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well.”
FALSE – The line reads “Alas! Poor Yorick!  I knew him, Horatio.”<\/span><\/p>\n

13. T\/F: <\/font>Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were all impeached.
FALSE – All were tried on impeachment charges, but none were convicted.  Nixon resigned before trial.<\/span><\/p>\n

14. T\/F: <\/font>Icebergs are composed of frozen sea water.
FALSE – They fall off glaciers and are made of fresh water.<\/span><\/p>\n

15. T\/F: <\/font>Witches were never burned at the stake in Salem, Mass.
TRUE – Some were hanged and one was stoned.  No one was burned.<\/span><\/p>\n

16. T\/F: <\/font>Stonehenge,the ancient stone monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England was built by Druids.
FALSE – Built about 1500 bc, they were already there when the Druids arrived in 500 bc.<\/span><\/p>\n

17: T\/F: <\/font>Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born in a log cabin.
FALSE – Six presidents were born thusly: A. Johnson, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln, Garfield.  Extra info: The first Prez to be born in a hospital was Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n

18. T\/F: <\/font>The fabric denim, used to make dungarees, was
\ndeveloped in Dungri, a surburb of Bombay, India as well as in France
\nboth in about the seventeenth century.
TRUE<\/span> <\/p>\n

19. T\/F: <\/font>The British government owns Queen Elizabeth II’s residence, Buckingham Palace.
FALSE – The Royal family owns the palace, along with other estates and the crown jewels. <\/span><\/p>\n

20. T\/F: <\/font>The entrance into San Francisco Bay is named the Golden Gate because it was the gateway to the gold fields.
FALSE – It was named after the Golden Horn that makes up the harbor of Istanbul (it’s shaped similarly).<\/span>
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