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Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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1. Is maple a soft or hard wood ? 2. Identify the Rosetta stone. 3. Who was vice president when Dwight Eisenhower was president of the United States ? 4. Who made the famous remark: “People of the Philippines, I have returned” ? 5. Did the federal income tax begin in 1913, ’ 18 or ’ 23 ? 6. The square root of 400 is... 7. Which state is called the “Free State” ? 8. Name the capital of China. 9. Francis Scott Key wrote the words of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is sung to music composed by whom ? Answers 1. Hard 2. It’s a black tablet once thought to be basalt unearthed in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rosetta. The tablet has parallel inscriptions in Greek and ancient Egyptian demotic and hieroglyphic characters, providing a key to decipher ancient Egyptian writing. 3. Richard Nixon 4. Gen. Douglas Mac-Ar thur, on Oct. 20, 1944 5. It began, in a modest way, in 1913. 6. 20 7. Maryland, also known as the “Old Line State” 8. Beijing 9. John Stafford Smith