Check your knowledge

— 1. In one version of the nursery rhyme “Boys and Girls,” little boys are made of “frogs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails.” Of what are little girls made?

2.These songs came out in which decade: “The Rock and Roll Waltz,” “Dance with Me, Henry” and “The Bible Tells Me So”?

3. Name the first magazine to have only science fiction stories.

4. In what state are the cities of Terre Haute, Marion and Richmond?

5. What number is the square root of 10,000?

6. The dodo bird is extinct. Was it a small or large bird?

7. Portuguese is the national language of two countries. One is Portugal. Identify the other.

8. Julia is the feminine form of Julius. What is the feminine of Julian?

Answers 1. “Sugar and spice and all things nice.” 2. The 1950s 3. Amazing Stories, first issued in 1926 4. Indiana 5. 100 6. It was a large bird, standing about 2 feet high.

7. Brazil. Portuguese is similar to Spanish.

8. Juliana

Family, Pages 39 on 12/30/2009

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