Check your knowledge

— 1. What is a “grotto”?

2. What brand of beer was advertised as “from the land of sky blue waters”?

3. What team has won the most World Series?

4. Within 5 cents, how much per acre did Russia charge the United States for what is now Alaska?

5. Who was the Biblical son of David and Bathsheba?

6. Who was known as “The March King”?

7. The flag of what country is white with a large red round area in the center?

8.Who is believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

9. What was the nickname of frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok?

Answers

1. A cave or similar structure

used as a recreational retreat

or as a shrine

2. Hamm’s

3. New York Yankees by far,

with 27 World Series wins

and 13 losses. No other club

is even close.

4. Two cents. The total price,

in 1867, was $7.2 million.

5. Solomon

6. John Philip Sousa

7. That of Japan

8. Nebuchadnezzar

9. “Wild Bill”

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