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LITTLE ROCK — 1. Is a full house or flush the more difficult hand to draw in the card game of poker?

2. What two letters have the highest point value in Scrabble?

3. Where in the white House did President Abraham Lincoln lie in state?

4. How many furlongs equal a mile?

5. Trinitrotoluene is better known as ... 6. In what state are the cities of Livonia, Holland and Jackson?

7. Is Venus or Mars closer to the sun?

8. How does a tepee differ from a wigwam?

9. In education, for what does “Ph.D.” stand?

10. Name the river in Germany where the Allied and Russian armies met near the end of World War II in Europe.

Answers 1. A full house is slightly the more difficult hand to make.

2. Q and Z, 10 points 3. East Room 4. Eight 5. TNT 6. Michigan 7. Venus 8. A tepee is a cone-shaped tent of animal skins, whereas a wigwam is domed with a framework of arched poles covered with leaves, bark, branches, etc.

9. “Doctor of Philosophy” 10. Elbe