The Washington herald., 1922-07-17
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Answers to These Questions Will
BE Published Tomorrow.
What is optics

!. What is optics
2. Give five synonyms for san
culinary.
3. What caused the ruin of the
sugar industry of Northern Brazil
in the seventeenth century?
4. Who was the famed poetess of
ancient Greece?
8. Who was Blandina?
6. What dish. the chief food staple
of nation OF soldiers. has baffled
the inquiry of the curious for 1000
years?
I. Where may be found the fol-
lowing lines:
Good friend, for Jesus sake for
beare,
To digg the dust encloased heare;
Bleste be the man that spares thes
stones,
And curst be he that moves my
bones"
s. Why are the red men called
'Indians?"
9. In what year was Indiana ad-
mitted to the Union?
10. When did the British gain
possession of Nova Scotia?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
1. Who was Madame Colet? A
French poet, novelist and general
writer. Born at AK. in France,
September Is, 1910; died at Paris,
March s, 1876.
2, What are mint morks on United
States coins? The small initial let
ters designating the branch mints
at which they were struck. Coin
age of the parent mint at Philadel-
ph:a bears no mint marks.
3. What were the contests in the
ancient Olympic games? For the
first fifty years, from 776 to 725 B.
c.. it was merely a 300-yard foot
race. Then came the Pentathlon-
running, jumping, wrestling, discus
throwing and javelin throwing.
Next was added the Pancratium, a
combination of boxing and wrest-
ling. Later chariot races. Athletes
were required to train ten months
and spend one month before the
contests at Olympia.
4. Who was Mrs. Grundy?" The
name of q lady in Thomas Morton's
Speed the Plow," a play written in
1898. Like Dickens Mrs. Harris,
she was not a real character in the
play. but everybody in the play who
tried to do anything that was not
proper was told that Mrs Grundy"
wouldn't like 1t. The expression is
generally used to mean the power
of other peoples ideas Of what is
right and proper to control our own
actions.
5. What Is the area of British Co.
lumbia? 355.S55 square miles.
6. Give five synonyms for sacred.
Hallowed, holy, Consecrated, divine.
dedicated.
Z. What is the difference between
Guinea and Guiana? Guinea is the
coast country of western Africa
roughly between Cape Verde and
the mouth of the Niger. where the
coast line runs mostly east and
west; Guiana is the extreme north
eastern part of South America, in
cluding Venezuela, British, Dutch
and French Guiana.
8. Who was Francis Bret Harte
An American poet, critic. novelist
and short story writer 1S39-19O2),
In his youth he followed the gold
craze to California, but found jour
nalism more profitable. He was
United States consul to Crefeld,
Germany, and later to Glasgow.
Scotland. His best stories are Luck
of Roaring Camp" 'M'liss," and
The outcasts of Poker Flat"
9. What mythical giant was
thought to support the world upon
his shoulders? Atlas.
10. Who is the author of The
Scarlet Letter" and what does the
title refer to? Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. 1t was published in 1850
and reveals the spiritual effect on
two characters of sin concealed and
sin revealed. :. The title refers to
a scarlet letter "a" worn by Hes
ter on her dress as a badge of her
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