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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 3:32 a.m.

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LITTLE ROCK — 1. Name the country music singer who wrote the words and music of “Cold, Cold Heart.” 2.What former infielder became an outstanding pitcher in the American League in the 1940s?

3. Complete this rhyme: “Thirty days hath September / April, June and November / All the rest have thirty-one / Excepting February alone ...” 4. Identify Cap’n Flint in Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

5. What automobile manufacturer made the Model T?

6. What does one have if he has an “Achilles’ heel”?

7. From what mid-1950s stage musical is the song “Standing On the Corner”?

8. Who was the last czar of Russia?

Answers 1. Hank Williams. 2. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, who started his baseball career as a third baseman. 3. “... And that has twenty-eight days clear / And twenty-nine in each leap year.” 4. It’s Long John Silver’s parrot. 5. The Ford Motor Co., from 1908-27 6. A vulnerable point, named for the mythical Greek hero’s only weak spot. (Achilles’ mother held him by the heel while dipping him in the River Styx to make him invulnerable.) 7. The Most Happy Fella 8. Nicholas II

Weekend, Pages 39 on 10/29/2009

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