LITTLE ROCK — 1.Who plays the title role - that of T.E. Lawrence - in the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia?
2. Who was president when Calvin Coolidge was vice president?
3.What unfortunately happened to New York Mets’ pitcher Roger Craig in 1963?
4. What ship, during the U.S. Civil War, was the first with a revolving gun turret?
5.What was the former name of Guyana in South America?
6. How many counties are there in New Jersey?
7. Why does the word “quisling” stand for traitor?
8. What is the use of logarithms?
9. Identify the defense organization that was established in 1949 by 12 countries, 10 of them European?
Answers 1. Peter O’Toole 2. Warren G. Harding (1921-23) 3. For the entire season, Craig won five games and lost 22.
4. The “Monitor,” a Union ironclad 5. British Guiana 6. 21 7. During World War II, Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian traitor because of his aid to German occupation forces. He became his country’s puppet ruler during the war.
8. Generally computed to the base of 10, logarithms are used for shortening mathematical calculations.
9. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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