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THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. MAY 22. 1921. 11 A Omahans Protest "Amazing Ignorance" How Many of Your Answers to Edison's Questions Were Right? Here's the Works; Read 'Em and Weep Omaha homes recently were busie with poring over the list of Edison Questions questions which Thomas A. Edison put before prospective employes of his plant in East Orange, N. J. Failures of a number of these pros pective employes, all college gradu ates, brought forth from Mr. Edison the remark "which startled educated America: That the average college graduate is "amazingly ignorant." The Bee was the first Omaha newspaper to publish these questions. Evidence that their publication in Omaha set educated minds to pon dering their answers was shown in the number ot telephone cajls re ceived by The Bee with regard to thrm. v Here's the list of 146 questions, together iiith their answers: 1. What countries bound France? Spain, the tiny independent state of Andorra in the Pyrenees, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxem 'burg and Belgium. 2. What city and country produce the Attest ohltta. Some say Linages, France; some say Sevres, France; some say Dres den, Gcrmnny; some say Copen hagen,' Denmark. 3, When? is the River oIga? In Itussia. 4. What Is the lincst cotton grown? Sea Island tiotton or Egyptian cot ton, according, to different experts. 5. What country consumed the most, ten. before the war? Russia. . What city in the t'nited States leads in making laundry machines? Chicago. . 7. What city Is the fur center of the United States? St. i,ouls lias been the raw fur renter until the month of April of this year, when New York eclipsed it. 8. What country is the greatest textile producer? Great Britain, but the United States is a 'close competitor. 9. In Australia greater than Green land in area? Yes, more than three times as large. 10. Where is Copenhagen? In Denmark. 11. Where Is Spitsbergen? In the Arctic, nortfr of Norway. 18. In what country other than Australia an? kangaroos found? In New Guinea. 15. What telescope is the largest in the world? That at the Mount Wilson observa tory in California. 11. Who was Bessemer and what did lie do? An English engineer. He invented a process for making steel. 1.1. How many states in the union? Forty-eight. 16. Where do we get prunes from? Prunes are grown in the Santa Clara valley and-elsewhere. 17. Who was Vaul Revere?.' The Minute Man who spread the alarm of the British march on Lex ington. ' ts. Who was John Hancock? The first signer of the Declaration of Independence. 19. Who Was Elulan-h? - A Prefik of t,ft's- first ana second "Lives" and miscellaneous works. 20. Who was Hannibal? The Carthaginian general who conquered most of Italy in the third century R. C. 21. Who was Damon? A French revolutionary orator, who was sent to the guillotine. , 22; Who was Solon? An Athenian lawyer 23. Who was Francis Marion? A principal leader of the, revolu tionary forces in the southern states. 24. Who was Leonidas? Tho-Sp.irlan general who ted. the heroic defense of Thermopylae. - 25. ' Where did we get Louisiana from? By- purchase from France. SB.VWho was Fizarro? The' Spanish conqueror of Peru. 27. ! Who was Bolivar? The- hero of the South American wars of liberation from Spain. 28. What war material did Chile export to the allies during the war? Nitrates. - 29. Where does most of the coffee como from? Brazil. - . . . SO. Where is Korea? '" A peninsula, of northeast Asia. 31.; new is iManonurta .' A province of China touching Korea. 32. Where was Napoleon born? Aiaccio, Corsica. 3S..Vhat is the highest rise of the tide on the Xorth American coast? Seventy feet in the Bay of Fundy. 31. Who Invented logarithms? .lohn Napier. .-. 35. Who was the emperor "of Mexico when Cortea landed? Montezuma. 8. W here Is the Imperial ralley And trim 1 ft ii.iIjmI fnr? Southern California; noted for melons. 37. What and where is Uw Sar gasso sea? A vast tract of seaweed floating in the north Atlantic ocean. 55. What is the greatest depth known of the ocean? Thirty-one, thousand six hundred feet, at Nero Deep near Guam. 3D. What is the name of a large Inland body of water that has no out let? The Great Salt Lake. 40. What is the capital of Penn sylvania? Harrlsburg. 41. What state is the largest? Neu? Texas. California. 42. Rhodo Island is the smallest state. What is the next and the lieu? Delaware. Connecticut. 43. How far is It from Xew York to Buffalo? Three hundred and ninety-six miles. - 44. How far is it from New York to San Francisco? Three thousand three hundred miles. 45. How far is It from New York to Liverpool? Three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven nautical miles. 40. Of what state is Helena the capital? Montana. 47. Of what state is Tallahassee the capital? Florida. N 48. What state has the largest cop per mines? Montana has largest single mine. Arizona mines have greatest com bined output. 49. What state has the largest amethyst mines? Virginia. 50. What is the name of a famous violin maker? Stradivarlus. 51. Who Invented the modern paper-making machine? Robert, a Frenchman. 52. Who Invented the typesetting machine? Mergenthaler. 53. Who invented printing? Nobody knows. Somebody in China, Japan or Korea. Probably first invented in Europe by Lourens Janzoon Coster of Haarlem. 54. How is leather tanned? By immersion in an infusion of oak or hemlock bark or other material strong in tannic acid. 65. What Is artificial silk made from? From cotton or wood pulp. 56. What is a caisson? An enclosure .to keep water from seeping or flowing into a space where, engineering operations are taking place. 57. What Is shellac? A base for varnish made from lac which is a resinous' incrustation formed on certain tress in the East Indies by an insect resembling the cochineal. 58. What is celluloid made from? Wood pulp primarily. 5ft. What causes the tides? The gravitational pull of the moon. 60. To what la the change in tea sons due? To the inclination of the earth to the plane ot the ecliptic. 61. What is coke? Coal after the more volatile com ponents have been driven off by heat. 62. From what part of the north Atlantic do we get codfish Off the Newfoundland Banks. 63. Who reached the South Pole? Amundsen, and then Scott. 64. What Is a monsoon? A periodic, alternating wind in the Indian ocean. i 65. Where is Magdalena bay? There is a Magdalena bay In Low er California, one in Sprtzbegen and one in Colombia. 66. From where do we Import figs? The Smyrna region. 67. From where do we get datea? Arabia, India, North Africa. Cali fornia, Arlsona, and elsewhere. 68. Whire do we get domestic sar dines? From Maine and California. 69. What is the longest railroad in the world? The Trans-8iberlan. 70. Where is Kenosha? Wisconsin. 71. What is the speed of sound? In the air at freezing it travels about 1,091 feet a second, In water its speed is about 4,680 feet per sec ond. It traveled at 11.463 feet four inches a second through an iron bar 3,000 feet long. 12. What is the speed of light? Approximately 18,700 miles a second. 73. Who was Cleopatra and how did sho die? iti M , A oueen of Egypt. Committed sui cide by causing an asp to bite her. 74. Where are condors found? The Andes. 75. Who discovered the law of gravitation? Sir Isaac Newton. '76. What is the distance between the earth and sun? 93,100,000 miles. 77. Who invented photography? Scheele, a Swede, discovered the principles about 17S0, and Wedg wood, English, first applied them in June, 1802. 78. What country produces the most wool? Australia, 79. What is felt? A cloth made from matted wool, fur or hair, -by pressure. 80. What cereal is used in ail parts of the world? None. Wheat is used most ex tensively, with rice and corn next." 81. What states produce phos phates? Arkansas, Tennessee and other southern states. 83. Why is cast iron called pig iron? i Because of a fancied resemblance i of the row of channels into which the molten metal flows to a litter of pigs. 88. Name three principal adds? Hydrochloric, sulphuric and ni tric. 84. Name three powerful poi sons? Cyanide of .potassium, strychnine and arsenic. 85. Who discovered radium? Mme. Curia in Paris in 1901. 86. Who discovered the X-ray? Roentgen, a German, in 1895. 87. Name three principal alkalis? Soda, potash and ammonia. 88. What part of Germany do toys come from? Nuremburg and the Nuremburg region. 89. What states bound Wast Vir ginia? Maryland. Pennsylvania, Virgin ia, Kentucky and Ohio. 99. Where do we get peanuts from? California, Georgia, Virginia and other southern states and Fennsyl- 91. What is the capital of Ala bama? Montgomery. 93. Who composed "II Trova tore?" Verdi. . 93. What is the weight of air in a room 20x30x10? 484 86-1,000 pounds. , 94. Where is platinum found? Ural mountains. 95. With what metal is platinum associated when found? Copper, iron, gold, iridium and osmium. 96. How Is sulphuric adde made? Iron pyrites roasted in special furnaces yield sulphur dioxide, which is collected in a lead cham ber in the presence of water, oxy gen oral r and nitrous anhydride. 97. Where do we get sulphur from? Louisiana and Texas. 98. Who discovered how to vul canize rubber? Charles Goodyear. 99. Where do we import rubber from? South and Central America, Ma lay Peninsula, Ceylon, Borneo, Java and equatorial Africa. 100. What is vulcanite and bow is it made? A black variety of hard rubber made from the cheaper grades of rubber vulcanised with much sul phur. 101. Who invented the cotton gin? Ell Whitney. 102. What is the price of 12 grains of gold? - United States assay office price, a:ay 12. 1921, was 69.69S cents. 103. What is the difference be tween anthracite and bituminous coal? 4 Hard coal is anthracite; soft coal is bituminous. 104. Where do we get benzol from? The fractional distillation of coal tar. 105. Of what is glass made? ! A fusion of silica with tow or more alkaline bases. 108. How is window glass made? Producing by blowpipe a large cylinder which is cut open and heated in a flattening oven and then transferred to an annealing oven. 107. What is porcelain? A fine earthenware harder, whiter, i harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery. 108. What country makes the best optical lenses and what cHy? Jena, in Germany, formerly pro duced the best lenses. Recently the bureau of standards has turned out lenses excelled by none. 109. What kind of a machine is used to cut the facets on diamonds? A diamond lathe where "diamond cuts diamond." 1 10. What is a foot energy? A unit of energy equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois the height of one foot. 111. Where do we get borax from? California, Nevada, Texas and Oregon. 112. Where Is the Assnan dam? Across the Nile in upper Egypt. 113. What star recently measured was found of enormous size? Betelguese. 114. What lara-e river in the Inited States flows from south to north? v The San Joaquin river in Cali fornia. The Red River of the North. 115. What are the Straits of Mes sina? - . , They separate Sicily from Italy. 116. What Is the highest mountain in the world? 4 Mount. Everest. 117. Where do we import cork from? Southern Europe and northern Africa. 118. Where is the St.. Gothard tunnel ? Under the Alps. 119. What is the Taj Mahal? ,A mausoleum built at Tagra, In dia, by the mogil emperor. Shah Jahan, in memory of his favorite wife. 120. Where is Labrador? On the east coast of North Ameri ca from St. Lawrence river to Hud son's bay. 121. Who wrote "The. Star Span gled Banner?" John Spofford Smith wrote the music about 1780. Francis Scott Key wrote the words. 122. Who wrote "Home, Sweet Home?" , k it John Howard Paine wrote the words. Sir Henry Bishop, an Eng lishman, wrote the music. 123. Who was Martin Luther? Principal leader of the Reforma tion. 124. What Is the .chief acid in ylnegar? Acetic 125. Who wrote "Don Quixote?" Cc i v&n t s. 126. Who wrote "Don Quixote?" Victor Hugo. 127. What place is the greatest distance below sea level? The Dead sea, 1,300 feet below sea level. 128. What are ax handles made of? Ash in the east and hickory in the west. 129. Who made "The Thinker?" Augusts Rodin. 130. Why was a Fahrenheit ther mometer called Fahrenheit? Named after Gabriel Daniel Fahr enheit, who invented, it. 131. Who owned and ran the New York Herald for a long time? James Gordon'Bennett. 182. What Is copra? The dried kernel of the cocoanut 133. What insect carries malaria? The mosquito of the genus Ano pheles. 134. Who discovered the Pacific ocean? . w V MM M TRUCK BEARINGS QUICKLY HYATT, TIM KEN. DuSatW WHEN you need new truck bearings, go to the Bearings Service. Com panyv YouTl find that the ". exact bearing you need is available immediately.,. Bearings Service Company acts as the service depart ment for the distribution of Timken, Hyatt and New Departure Bearings. Omaha Branch . . '? u 1812 Harney St. -. Phone Atlantic 2844 ' 3 Maxwell Prices Reduced Now New Organization, Taking Pull Control, Turns Prices Back Three Years t ' The last step in the Maxwell reorganization was the sale of the Max well properties to the new and powerful organization, May 12. The first step of the new organization was to raise the value of the good v Maxwell still higher, by restoring prices to the former low level of 1918. The reduction is $150 on each of the four models effective at once.' This isxthe second price revision made by the new organization; and the total reduction from the high level, since Sept. 28, 1920, has been $310 , on open cars and $350 on closed cars. What this latest action means, literally, is turning back Maxwell prices to the basis of 1918. , The truth is that the gpod Maxwell today is a litter car than it was three years ago. It has been given a new goodness, by lowering costs, by increasing plant efficiency, and by greatly improving the manufacturing practices. The new organization now owns the great Maxwell plants outright - Its way is clear to carry out in full its larger plans and policies. It pledges itself never to stop working for the further betterment of the gcd Maxwell, and for the greater satisfaction of present and future owners of this good car. , ' New Price List f Touring Car 3845 , Roadster $845 Coupe 31445 Sedan $1545 Omaha Auto Sales Co. ' DISTRIBUTORS 202C Faraum Street Phane Atlantic 0627 it Good Balboa. 135. What country has the largest output of nickel in the world? Canada. 136. What Ingredients are In the best white paint? Linseed oil, turpentine, liquid dryer, white lead and sine oxide. 137. What is 'glucose and how made? Glucose is made from crude corn starch liquor that is first converted into a liquid by being: hydrolised by an acid, then neutralized by a solu tion of sodium carbonate, and final ly filtered and evaporated in vacu um pans. , 138. In what part of the world docs it never rain? Sahara desert. 13t. What was the approximate population of Kngland. France, Ger many and Russia before the war? ..England, 34,000,000; France, 40, -000,000; Germany, 65,000,000; Rus sia 180.000,00. 140. Where Is the City of Mecca? In the kingdom of Hedjaz. 141. Where do we get quicksilver from? California, Texas and Spain. 143. Of what are violin strings made? From "catgut," now usually made from the. intestines of sheep. 143. What city on the Atlantic seaboard is the greatest pottery cen ter? Trenton, X. J. 144. Who is called the "father of railroads" in the United States? John Stevens. 145. What is the heaviest kind of wood? Lignum vitae. 146. What is the lightest wood? Basswood has been called the lightest, but it has been asserted recently that balsa, or corkwood, found in South America, -is the lightest. X-Ray Bombardment of Body Is New Plan to Fight Cancer London, May 21. The war on cancer has been advanced a step fur ther by recent experiments conducted at a London hospital. Dr. S. Gilbert Scott, head of. the radiological de partment, now hopes that by bom barding the patient's bo'dy with X rays it will be possible to prevent cancer cells from wandering over the body until they find root and set up a new growth. "Already we have successfully treated primary, or surface, cancer with X-rays, but the dispersed cells have afterwards lodged in dtep seated parts of the body. Now, by drenching the whole body with the rays we are getting better results, and there is good reason to hope that we may be able to prevent the forma tion of deep tumors which hitherto in most cases have proved fatal." Mnthpr of TrinletS Now I b,,rn 10 the ' mirlf within a vear. Mower oi lripieu now About numths aR0 she Kave bum Mother OI lwins as Well; to triplets, all of them living. The Hubbard Lake, Mass., May Jl. Mrs. Orville Robb has just pre sented her husband with a healthy set of twins, making live children Rohbs now have 10 children. oldest is 8 years iM. The Use Bee' Want Ads for Result. Women drivers also recognize The 1921 Briscoe Is The Best Cec Built Today Style, comfort and easy handling are more de manded by women than men. But as the number of women drivers increases, they are requiring power, economy, hill-ability, and, above all, re liability as well. BRISCOE Clarence A EARL, President It was inevitable that they should take to the Briscoe it style and finish satisfy their pride; its mechan ical excellence merits their complete confidence. Come in and look the 1921 Briscoe overyou'll be delighted, as hundreds of others have been. 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