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Posted: August 7, 2009 at 3:49 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — 1. Is the balalaika a wind instrument?
2. What is the principal city of the Touraine region of France?
3. Babe Ruth hit his final home run for the New York Yankees. True or false?
4. The African nation of Biafra was formed from and reincorporated into what country?
5. Name the last British monarch who was not the child of a sovereign.
6. Lymph is a clear, somewhat yellowish fluid that comes from what part of the body?
7. Is the Navy Cross ever awarded to personnel of the Marine Corps or Coast Guard?
8. A metal containing iron is ferrous or nonferrous?
9. What is the usual name for a dessert of a cake layer covered with ice cream and topped with sweetened, stiffly beaten egg whites, which is browned quickly in an oven?
Answers 1. No, it is a plucked string instrument, usually with three strings. 2. Tours 3. False, it was hit for the Boston Braves in 1935, a season after Ruth left the Yankees. 4. Nigeria 5. Queen Victoria, who became queen after the death of her uncle, William IV. 6. It is derived from the blood. 7. Yes 8. Ferrous 9. Baked Alaska
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