Check your knowledge

— 1. What is a koala’s principal food?

2. In what park is Old Faithful?

3. Does the United States Supreme Court have the power to hear suits between the states?

4. The Detroit Red Wings play what sport?

5. Is a strong gale or storm more violent?

6. What major university is in Ithaca, N.Y.?

7. In what nation is the Hague?

8. “Ag” is the chemical symbol for what element?

9. A combination of Bohemia, Moravia and parts of Silesia and Slovakia resulted in what new country, in 1918?

Answers

1. Leaves of the eucalyptus, a chiefly Australian tree of the myrtle family.

2. Yellowstone National Park

3. Yes

4. Ice hockey, in the National Hockey League

5. A storm has higher winds - 55 to 63 miles per hour - than a strong gale, which has winds of 47 to 54 miles an hour.

6. Cornell

7. The Netherlands

8. Silver

9. Czechoslovakia. In 1993, the country was divided between the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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