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ANTIQUE TRIVIA

This trivia page contains trivia from 70 years ago...hence...antique trivia.

The answers can be found at the bottom of this page....

1--What is a gazebo?
2--Who was the man who shot President Garfield?
3--Which are the largest four lakes lying wholly within the United States?
4--What was the original name of John Fiske, librarian at Harvard and historical writer?
5--When was Lincoln assassinated?
6--When was the Constitution of the United States adopted?
7--How many planets are there in our solar system?
8--Which one of the states uses the term "hundred" as others use county?
9--Which President of the United States was known as "Old Rough and Ready"?
10-Who is Davy Jones?
11-Who is meant by Tommy Atkins?
12-What are the colors of the French flag?
13-Is there a Jewish flag?
14-What is a cul-de-sac?
15-Why is drinking to health called "drinking a toast"?
16-Who wrote the story "Alien Corn"?
17-Where and what was the Field of the Cloth of Gold?
18-What is the nebular hypothesis?
19-Who wrote "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?
20-Where is the Parana River?

ANSWERS:
1--A turret on a roof, or a summerhouse that commands a view.
2--Charles J. Guiteau
3--Michigan, Great Salt Lake, Okeechobee, and Pontchartrain.
4--Edmund Fiske Green
5--April 14, 1865
6--March 4, 1789
7--Eight
8--Delaware
9--Zachary Taylor
10-The spirit of the sea; sea devil.
11-The British white enlisted soldier.
12-Blue, white, and red.
13-Yes, that of the Zionists-the star of David in blue on a white ground.
14-A place with only one outlet.
15-Because formerly toast was placed in liquor as a delicacy.
16-Somerset Maugham.
17-A plain between Ardres and Guines in France, where Francis I of that country met Henry VIII of England in 1520.
18-A theory to explain the formation of the stars and planets.
19-Thomas Gray in On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
20-In Brazil, Paraguay, and the Argentine Republic.

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