Check your knowledge

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — 1. What U.S. city is known as the “Big Easy”?

2. Name the first company to sell condensed milk.

3. The song “A Bushel and a Peck” is in what musical?

4. The television show Phyllis was a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.Who played the role of Phyllis Lindstrom?

5. Identify the illness that causes a swelling of the parotid glands at the angles of the jaw.

6. Is a dwarf or a midget properly proportioned?

7. In Biblical times, Goliath was a member of what non-Semitic people?

8. Mrs. George Palmer Putnam was better known by what name?

9. Does the Arabian (dromedary) or Asian (Bactrian) camel have two humps?

Answers 1. New Orleans. It is also known as “Crescent City.” 2. Borden. It was patented in 1856.

3. Guys and Dolls 4. Cloris Leachman 5. Mumps 6. A dwarf’s body parts are disproportionate, but a midget is properly proportioned.

7. Goliath was a Philistine 8. Amelia Earhart, famed aviatrix 9. The Asian camel has two humps. The Arabian camel has one hump.

Weekend, Pages 37 on 10/15/2009

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