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LITTLE ROCK — 1. What is the meaning of “endemic”?

2. The birthplace of Mohammed is a holy city of Islam. The city?

3. What is the name for a measure of wood consisting of 128 cubic feet, which is a pile eight feet long, four feet wide and four feet high?

4. Who were the carpetbaggers after the U.S. Civil War?

5. Is Colorado or Minnesota the larger state in area?

6. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit a major league season record number of home runs in 1998. How many did he hit?

7.Was the 30th president of the United States Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge or Harry Truman?

8. Do penguins fly?

9. Who created fictional detective Hercule Poirot?

10. What is the nickname of Virginia?

Answers 1. Native to a particular region or country

2. Mecca, in Saudi Arabia

3. Cord

4. Northern politicians and adventurers who went south to take advantage of conditions existing after the war

5. Colorado, which has an area of about 104,000 square miles. Minnesota has about 85,000 square miles.

6. McGwire hit a record 70 homers.

7. Coolidge, president from 1923-29 8. No 9. Agatha Christie 10. “Old Dominion”