Check your knowledge

— 1. William Shakespeare was born in one century and died in the next one. Identify the two centuries.

2. Does the vanilla plant have roots?

3. What is the proper name of the dog known as “chow”?

4. What is fructose?

5. In which of Shakespeare’s writings is “They that stand high have many blasts to shake them”?

6. What is the United States’ central banking system?

7. In legend, who was Diomedes?

8. What vitamin is especially essential for a healthy skin?

9. In the Bible, what are the Anakim?

Answers

1. He was born in the 16th century (1564) and died in the 17th century (1616).

2. Yes, the vine roots in the soil, but also gets nutrients from aerial roots as it climbs.

3. “Chow chow”

4. Fruit sugar

5. Richard III

6. The Federal Reserve System

7. The Greek warrior at the siege of Troy who helped Odysseus steal the statue of Athena

8. Vitamin A

9. A race of giants inhabiting Hebron at the time of the conquest of Canaan

ActiveStyle, Pages 27 on 02/21/2011

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