Check your knowledge

— 1.What prominent Southerner was offered the job of heading Union military forces in the Civil War period?

2. Is approximately one-quarter, half or three-quarters of Earth’s surface ocean?

3. What are centers of low pressure called?

4. The original U.S. flag had 13 stars and 13 stripes. Each star represented a state. What did each stripe represent?

5. In literature, where does Don Quixote live?

6. A “league” is a measure of distance and can vary from country to country. However, in English-speaking nations a league is usually how many miles?

7. What university is home to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans?

8. What is the price of a pound of candy that costs 40 cents an ounce but is sold at a 10 percent discount for two pounds or more?

9 What is the annual date of Halloween?

Answers

1. Robert E. Lee, who declined,

first becoming an advisor to Con

federate President Jefferson Da

vis, and then the Confederacy’s

military commander.

2. Three-quarters

3. Cyclones. Centers of high pres

sure are anticyclones.

4. Each stripe also represented a

state. Now, the stripes represent

the 13 original states.

5. La Mancha, Spain

6. Three miles

7. Bronx Community College, part

of City University of New York.

8. The pound price is $6.40. The

discount does not apply.

9. Oct. 31

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