New Britain herald., 1930-10-21

QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
 You can get an answer to any question Of fact or information by writing 10 tho Question Editor. New Britain Herald. Washington Bureau, 1929 New York avenue. Washing. ton. D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given. nor can extended research be under. taken. All other questions will re. ceive . personal reply. Unsigned re- quests cannot be answered. All let ters are standardization.
 Q. What is the address of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States?
 A. 233 Broadway, New York City.
 Q. How many automobiles, pas senger cars and trucks are there in the United States?
 A. The latest statistics show 23,- 12l,5S9 passenger cars and 3,379,- s54 trucks.
 o. Is there an English coin called groat, and what is it worth?
 Az The English groat was first coined in 1851, of a value somewhat higher than a penny. The continued debasement of both the penny and the groat left the latter finally worth four pennies. This issue of the groat was discontinued after 1862, but a coin worth fourpence was again struck in 1886. and was discontinued in 1856. The name groat has been more familiarly ap- piled in recent times to fourpence as unit of account.
 Q. What is the smallest gold coin ever issued by the United States?
 A. One dollar gold piece.
 c. What was the theme song to the motion picture The Florodora Girl?"
 A. There was no theme song, but the original "Florodora" score, in cluding snatches of Break the News to Mother" "The Blue Danube" and other kindred periodic waltz num- bers, were incorporated in the musi- cal score of the picture.
 Q. Where does the Tennessee river rise?
 A. It is formed by the confu- ence of the Holston and the French Broad rivers, 4.5 miles above Knox vile, Tenn.
 Q. What is the name of the motion picture which Amos and Andy" have recently completed?
 A. Check and Double Check"
 Q. Where were the Olympic games of 1928 held?
 A. Amsterdam, Holland.
 q. Are there two layers in human skin?
 A. There is an outer layer, called the epidermis, which is constantly being shed in the form of powder or scales, and an inner layer, called the dermis, having dense and tlbrous structure.
 Q. Who were in the cast of the photoplay "As Man Desires?"
 A. Milton Sills, Viola Dana, Ruth Clifford, Rosemary Theby, Irving Cummings, Paul Nicholson, Tom Kennedy, Hector Sarno, Lou Payne, Anna May Walthal, Edneh Altemus and Frank Leigh.
 Q How many watts do stations NEX, Mexico City and CMCB, Ha- vana, Cuba use, and on what ire quency do they broadcast?
 A. Station KEN, uses 500 watts power and CMCB, Havana, Cuba, uses 150' watts power and both broadcast on frequency of $50 kilocycles.
 Q. Who was Sir William Her schel?
 A. A famous English astronomer and musician, who was born in 1738, and died In 1922.
 Q. Has oxygen taste or color? , A. Oxygen is colorless, tasteless and inodorous. Q. In what work of fiction does the character Christopher Sly ap- l pear?
 1 A. In Shakespeare's Tanning of | the Shrew." He is a keeper oi | bears and a tinker, and as the play i opens he is found dead drunk by a nobleman. who orders his servants to take him to his mansion and at, | tend him as if he were lord. The l trick is played and the comedy oi | The Tanning of the Shrew" is per | formed for the delectation of this ephemeral lord. | Q. What is the value of a Rus. sian paper ruble? | A. It is valueless. Q, What was the greatest extent of the territory over which Ma poleon ruled? Did he conquer Eng, land?
 | A. When Napoleon was at the height of his power his rule ex. , tended from Lubeck to, beyond Rome, embracing France proper the Netherlands, part of western ant northwestern Germany, all westerr Italy as far south as the Kingdom o Naples, together with the Illyriar provinces and the Ionian Islands On all sides were allied, vassal, o, dependent states. Several of tho ancient thrones of Europe were occupied by Napoleon's relatives ol his favorite marshals. He himsel was king of the Kingdom of Italy protector of the Confederation of thu Rhine, and mediator of Switzerland Russia and Denmark were his allies He failed, however, to conquel England.