Panorama quiz
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- Title
- Panorama quiz
- Language
- English
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- Panorama 4 (5) May 1939
- Year
- 1939
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- Quiz
- Mass media--Examinations, questions, etc.
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- •111111111111111111rn111111111r!rmu111111•11111•11111111111111111111111111111111111111111m1111r PANORAMA QUIZ 'Hlllllllllllllllllllllll!llll!lll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfll THIS feature is intended to test your fund of information on matters that an educated person should know. Read each question carefully. Check the answer you think is correct. After you have gone over all of them, look up the correct answers on page 67. 1. One of these former Presidents of the United StatEs was once the chief executive of the Philippines: (1) Theod-Ore Roosevelt, (2) McKinley, (3) Taft, (4) Coolidge, (5) Harding, (6) Hoover. 2. This province was once famous for coffee production: (1) Albay, (2) Cavite, (3) Misamis, (4) Batangas, (5) Cebu, (6) Leyte. 3. The revolver was invented in 1835 by: (1) Sarnuel Colt, (2) S. P. Langley, (3) Hiram Maxim, (4) Benjamin Franklin, (5) Thomas A. Edison, (6) John Remington. 4. In England, the possessor of one of these titles takes precedence over all but members of the royal family at formal functions: (1) Marquis, (2) Earl, (3) Lord, ( 4) Duke, ( 5) Sir, ( 6) Esquire, (7) Baron, (8) Sahib. 5. If the franc is the monetary unit of France, then the monetary unit of Switzerland is the: (1) lira, ( 2) pound, ( 3) franc, ( 4) dollar, (5) piaster, (6) peso, (7) mark, (8) ruble. 6. Those eight central front teeth in your mouth are called: (1) bicusvids, (2) canines, (3) wisdom, MAY, 1939 (4) incisors, (5) molars, (6) nippers. 7. No matter how. many times we look out of windows most of us don't realize that one of the three major substances used to make glass is: (1) olive oil, (2) varnish, (3) iron ore, (4) wool, (5) sand, (6) kerosene, (7) discarded football-game programs. 8. One of these is a simple instrument used to determine the thickness or diam<:ter of an object: (1) conifer, (2) calorimeter, (3) calliope (4) caliph, (5) calibrator, (6) caliper. 9. The character of Ophelia ap~ pears in one of these Shakespearean plays: (1) Merchant of Venice, (2) Macbeth, (3) Hamlet, (4) Romeo and Juliet, (5) The Tempest. 10. By human standards, one of these creatures has the ugliest, most repulsive face of the list: (1) hartebeest, (2) ocelot, (3) iguana, (4) yak, (5) jackal, ('6) gazelle. 11. On his fifth wedding anniversary, a man may correctly present his wife with: (1) a cord of wood, (2) a tin pie pan, (3) a set of crystal goblets, (5) a box of paper napkins (6) a new gold inlay, (7) a china pot. 61 12. The title of one of these books has been used as the name of a wonderful place reclaimed from the sea and made the site of a world exposition: (1) Ivanhoe, (2) Paradi.se Lost, (3) Treasure Island, (4) The Good Earth, (5) Vanity Fair, (6) Noli Me Tangere, (7) Count of Monte Cri.sto. 13. It is said that so much paper being now imported into the Philippines there should be paper factories established in the Philippines using principally one of these raw materials for paper making: (1) rags, (2) kapok trees, (3) bamboo trees, ( 4) rattan vines, ( 5) coconut leaves. 14. One of the foremost Filipino philanthropists who died this year was : (1) Gregorio Araneta, (2) Teodoro R. Yangco, (3) Isidoro de la Rama, (4) Jose Fernandez, (5) Manuel Earnshaw. 15. The new President of the University of the Philippines who has earned the reputation of a disciplinarian and an efficient executive is: (1) Jose Laurel, (2) Franci.sco Benitez, (3) Jorge Bocobo, ( 4) Bienvenido Gonzalez, (5) Rafael Palma, (6) Camilo Osias. 16. During the last days of April, 1939, there was much talk ~n the papers about launching the candidacies of one of these pairs 62 for President and Vice-President to succeed Quezon and Osmeiia, respectively: (1) Alunan-Cu;enco, (2) Osias-Aglipay, (3) Yulo-Paredes, (4) Osmeiia-Recto, (5) RectoM on tin o la, (6) Roxas-Sabido, (7) Sumulong-Aguinaldo. 17. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a ten-year period of peace and non-aggression to one of the following groups or states: (1) the democracies, (2) the soviet states, (3) empires, ( 4) Italy and Germany, (5) England and France, (6) Japan and Russia. 18. The first day of l\fay is c<>lebrated as an official holiday be.cause (1) it i.s the Philippine independence day; (2) the day of the capture of Manila by the American forces; (3) labor day; (4) health day; (5) the Communi.sts' holiday. 19. One of these is not yet a chartered city in the Philippines: (1) CebU, (2) Davao, (3) Lipa, (4) Bacolod, (5) Iloilo, (6) Zamboanga. 20. The election code of the Philippines does not allow one of the following public officers to be elected more than three consecutive times: (1) Member of the National Assembly, (2) municipal councilor, (3) municipal mayor, (4) city mayor, (5) member of the provincial board. PANORAMA
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