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 Q. Where is the most powerful radio station in the Worldt
 \. At Zecscn, twenty miles out side of Berlin, Germany II has 120 kilowatts power and d wave length of 2JQ meters,
 @. How was the bull terrier created?
 A. This breed owes ifs creation to the sporting instincts of young Eng lishmcn in the carly part of the 18th century. At that time con-
 
 pit fighting, and young English CamcstcrS sought to develop a type of terrior that could fight, as well as kill ycrmin and hunt small game. Crosses of the larger type. smooth coated. black and tan terriers, the carly English white terrier, and the English bulldog arc reported to have been made, resulting in the kind of fighting dog desired. This animal was neither terrier nor bulldog, being a short-loggcd, heavy set short-hcaded, taWn-colorcd mon grcl. Gradually all the bulldog characteristics except courage and fighting qualities were bred out, and after considerable outcrossng with the English white terrier the type assumed it's present form.
 Q. What is the present per capita wealth of the United States?
 4. S2,941.90.
 c. Must the best man at q wcd- ding be a bachelor?
 A. No. Usually he is the best friend of the groom, and it makes no difference whether he is married or not.
 c. What is the origin of the cx- pression "Davy Jones I.ocker?"
 A. Davy Jones. according to sailors mythology. is the evil spirit of the sea: hence Davy Jones Lock CT is the name given to the last resting place of persons drowned at sea.
 Q. How many times within the last 129 years has Palm Sunday fallen on April 13?
 A. Four times, in 1851, 1862, 1919 and 1924.
 c. Who wrote Thanatopsisn A. William Cullen Bryant.
 c. Who was the mother of George Washington"
 4. Mary Ball. Q. From what college did Theo- dore Roosevelt graduate?
 A. Harvard
 .. How many persons took the civil service examination for telc- graph operator on October 16. 1929 and how many passed?
 A. One hundred and forty one took the examination. and 9S passed.
 Q. Who is the pretendcr 10 the throne of France? Whom did he succeed?
 X. Louis Philippe Albert comtc de Paris, pretendcr to the throne of | France. died on September &. 1894, and Jean Pierre Clement Marie duo de GuiS" succeeded him. .. Who first made cane sugar?
 X. Noel Deerr in his book Cane | sugar says that white sugar was i first made by Christian monks at | Condeshapur at the mouth of the | Euphrates river in GOO A. D. | c. How many licensed womcr 1 preachers are there in the United i States?
 ! \, According 10 the census oi | 1920 there were 1.7S7 womcr 1 preachers in the United States. i Q. What is the name of the SC. lection played at the beginning ant close Of the radio feature ".>mo. ! n Andy"?
 4. "Thc Perfect Song" from i "Thc Birth oG q Nation."