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LITTLE ROCK — 1. What do the British call a frozen popsicle?

2. Name any three of President Theodore Roosevelt’s six children.

3. Of what state is Charleston the capital?

4. What is “Parkinson’s Law”?

5. Identify the medical term “insulin shock.”

6. Is it true or false that for Earth’s first 3 billion years no life existed?

7. What is the monetary unit of Poland?

8. What is a “Dutch treat”?

9. Identify the three Scandinavian nations.

Answers 1. Ice lolly 2. Alice, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald and Quentin 3. West Virginia 4. Conceived by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a British historian and author, it is that work expands to fill the time available for its completion 5. It is a condition caused by excess insulin in the bloodstream, and can cause convulsions and unconsciousness.

6. False 7. Zloty 8. Everyone pays his own bill, with no one treating any others 9. Denmark, Norway and Sweden