Check your knowledge

— 1. Who was president of the United States when Alaska was purchased from Russia?

2. What does the expression “to sleep like a top” mean?

3. What is the smallest unit of life?

4. In the more than 200-year history of the United States, has there always been a presidential election every four years?

5. In what city did the Polish union “Solidarity” get its start?

6. Gordon Howe played for a team in the National Hockey League for a quarter-century. The team?

7. Which U.S. president’s wife and mother both died on the same day?

8. What was William Frederick Cody’s popular nickname?

9. What kind of animal is the eland?

10. Do most puppies have worms?

Answers 1. Andrew Johnson, in 1867 2. To sleep very soundly or without waking 3. The cell 4. Yes 5. Gdansk, Poland 6. Detroit Red Wings 7. Theodore Roosevelt’s 8. “Buffalo Bill” 9. An African antelope.

10. Yes

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