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Thursday, October 8, 2009

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— 1. What is the name in the Old Testament for the Sea of Galilee?

2. Who wrote: “You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a women’s club”?

3. Identify the Gary Cooper movie in which the word “pixilated” is used several times.

4. For many years, each major baseball league, the American and National, had eight clubs. Did either ever have fewer than eight?

5. Why does bacon shrink so much during cooking?

6. What was the first national park in the United States?

7. A kitchen utensil with many perforated openings is a “sieve” or “seive”?

8. What is the second-largest city in Mexico, behind Mexico City?

Answers 1. Sea of Kinneret 2. O. Henry 3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 4. No 5. It has a lot of fat, which melts off during cooking.

6. Yellowstone, established in 1872. However, Hot Springs was the first national reservation, created in 1832.

7. “Sieve” 8. Guadalajara, with Monterrey a close third. Mexico City is by far the largest city in Mexico.

Weekend, Pages 37 on 10/08/2009

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