Trivia Quiz
1. What are the three stages of a volcano?
2.How does “parade rest” differ from “at ease”?
3. London’s Drury Lane was well known several centuries ago, primarily for what?
4. A regular deck of 52 playing cards has how many face cards?
5.How did the ducking stool work when it was used as a form of punishment some years ago?
6. Does light or dark absorb more heat?
7. If a baseball club has won 36 games but lost 24, what is its winning percentage?
8. What is the middle word of the expression “fair, ________ and forty”?
9. Norway borders on three other countries. What are they?
10. True or false: A rod equals six yards?
ANSWERS
1. Active, dormant and extinct.
2. “Parade rest”, a motionless stance, is a formal position of rest. “At ease” is an informal and relaxed position. Persons in both positions are silent and remain in place.
3. Theaters.
4. Twelve, three in each unit. A regular deck contains four kings, four queens and four jacks.
5. A person was tied in a chair at the end of a long plank or board which was raised up and down to keep ducking him into the water.
6. Dark.
7. .600.
8. “Fat.”
9. Sweden, Finland and Russia.
10. False, it is 5 1/2 years
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