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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — 1. Within 20, how many bedrooms are in the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif.?

2. In sports, John Henry won a record $1.8 million in 1981. Identify John Henry.

3. Name the first state to leave the Union, prior to the Civil War.

4. Is it true or false that the iris is the eye’s colored part?

5. Tails of comets may be millions of miles long. Of what are they composed?

6. Is it true or false that the number of sheep and lambs in the United States is increasing?

7. A short story in Cosmopolitan magazine entitled “Night Bus” was turned into what Academy Award-winning movie?

8. In botany, what is a “pyxis”?

9. What are the five zones of Earth’s surface?

Answers 1. 56. The castle has 61 bathrooms.

2. John Henry was a race horse.

3. South Carolina 4. True 5. Luminous gases, some poisonous, but rare or thin 6. True. The total, above 6.2 million, has nearly tripled since 1995.

7. It Happened One Night, a 1934 film. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert won Academy Awards for this picture.

8. A splitting dry fruit whose upper portion splits off as a lid 9. Torrid, North Temperate, South Temperate and two Frigid Zones

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