Check your knowledge

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — 1. What does "urbane" mean?

2. A saw with coarse teeth for cutting wood along the grain is known as a r______.

3.Why is the Black Sea dark or black?

4. How many terms did Andrew Jackson serve as president?

5. In the movie Where the Heart Is (2000), the character played by Natalie Portman gives birth where?

6. Name either of the original two correspondents on the television show 60 Minutes which began in 1968.

7. What did the pieman tell Simple Simon to show before he would let him taste a pie?

8. Who was the Japanese premier when Japan and the United States went to war?

9. Does the starfish have teeth?

10. A league is usually considered to measure how many miles?

Answers 1. Refined or polite in a polished way. 2. "Ripsaw" 3. It is because of a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide. 4. Two terms (1829-37) 5. A Wal-Mart 6. Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner 7. A penny 8. Hideki Tojo 9. No 10. Three miles

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