1. What is the difference between Ordinance and Ordnance?
2. Of the five, which is least like the other four? Wichita; Dallas: Canton: Bangor; Fresno.
3. What were the first products marketed in aerosol containers? Hairspray; Insecticides; Spray Paints; Air Freshners.
4. What was the name of the dog on the Cracker Jacks box? Jack; Spot; Bingo; Cracker.
5. How old was Joan of Arc when she was burned at the stake? 16; 18; 19; 23.
6. From what country was the following proverb first recorded? “Travel east and travel west, a man’s own home is still the best.” England; Germany; America; Ireland.
7. What word is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?
8. In 1626, what island did Peter Miuit purchase for 60 guilders ($24) that today would be impossible to determine its value? Long Island; Staten Island; Ellis Island; Manhattan Island.
9. The midwife thought this artist was stillborn and abandoned him on a table. His uncle, however, a cigar-smoking physician, saved the infant with a blast of air into his lungs. Who was it? Da Vinci; Picasso; Monet; Van Gogh.
10. How did the practice of saying, “Cheers” before drinking originate?
Answers:
1. Ordinance refers to a decree, law, or regulation. Ordnance refers to military equipment or weapons, i.e., Jerry got a citation for breaking the local ordinance against keeping ordnance in a residence.
2. All the others have six letters; Wichita has seven.
3. Insecticides in 1941.
4. B-i-ngo, b-i-ngo, b-i-ngo, and Bingo was his name, oh!
5. The Maid of Orleans was 19.
6. Germany
7. Alphabet
8. Manhattan
9. Pablo Picasso
10. From our five sense organs – skin, nose tongue, eyes and ears. The lips touch it, the nose smells it, the tongue tastes it, and the eyes see it. As for the ear – we say “cheers”!