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LITTLE ROCK — 1.What cereal grain did Christopher Columbus find in the New World in 1492 that was not known elsewhere?

2. Is life insurance paid to survivors subject to federal income tax?

3. When was the position of poet laureate of Arkansas established?

4. Mary Baker Eddy founded what religious movement in 1866?

5. Fill in the missing word in this saying: “Faith, ________ and charity.” 6. What is the monetary unit of Cuba?

7. Which came first: the typewriter or bifocal lens?

8. Into what body of water does the Columbia River flow?

9. President Grover Cleveland was governor of New York, but he was born in and died in what other state?

Answers

1. Maize (corn)

2. No

3. Oct. 10, 1923, by concurrent resolutions of both houses of the Legislature. Charles T. Davis was the first person named to the post.

4. Christian Science. She had been cured after having what seemed to be a hopeless illness.

5. “Hope”

6. Peso

7. Bifocal lens, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1780. W.A. Burt invented the typewriter in 1829.

8. Pacific Ocean

9. New Jersey