THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JULY 24. 1921.
Omaha Daily Bee Intelligence Questionnaire Sent in by.
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What country does the most coffee com from?
Who was John Hancock?
(27)
What is a turbine wheel?
(63)
What is a night letter?
(85)
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What U the electro-pneumatic block signal?
(2)
From what country did we get Louisiana?
(28)
What is an oculist?
(64)
What is a carburetor?
(86)
What is the largest state in the union?
(29)
What Is an element?
(3)
What is the smallest state in the union?
(30)
What is a caisson?
(65)
Who is governor of Nebraska?
(87)
What state is commonly known as the Badger state?
(31)
What it a diamond?
(4)
What city in Pennsylvania was nearly destroyed by flood in May, 1889?
What is a shoemaker's last?
(66)
Can a man vote on his first papers in Nebraska?
(88)
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What is asbestos?
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What i aluminum?
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What is steel?
(7)
What is sugar?
(8)
What it coke?
(9)
What it iilk?
(10)
What la wool?
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What ii shoddy?
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What ii linoleum?
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What ii tinder?
(U)
What ii strawboard?
(15)
What is shale?
(IS)
How many ttari in the American fU
(17)
What ii the Declaration of Independence?
(18)
What U the U. S. Constitution?
What is congress?!
(20)
What are taxes?
(21)
When did the U. S. take over the work of the Panama canal?
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Who discovered the Pacifie ocean?
(23)
Where did the Mayflower Pilgrims land?
(24)
How many 'states in the union?
(28)
Who was the most famoui French heroine?
(33)
Who reigned longeit of Engliih sovereigns?
(34)
Who in U. S. invented the telephone?
(3S)
Who in U. S. invented the telegraph?
(36)
Who invented the typesetting machine?
(37)
Who invented the cotton gin?
(38)
Who invented wireless telegraphy?
(39)
Who invented the talking machine?
(40)
Who invented the sewing machine?
(41)
Who invented the adding machine?
(42)
Who invented the typewriter?
(43)
Who in the U. S. invented the submarine?
(44)
What first pneumatic invention attracted general attention in U. S.?
(45)
What is the first planet in order of distance from the sun?
(46)
Who discovered the law of gravitation?
(47)
What causes the tides?
(48)
Is porcelain a good conductor of heat?
(49)
Which are the five largest islands in the world?
(50)
Name a large inland body of water having no outlet?
(SI)
What is the highest mountain in the world?
(52)
What is the longest railroad in the world?
(53)
What insect carries malaria?
(55)
What is the oldest university in the U. S.?
(56)
Who was America's greatest humorist?
(57)
Of what university was Woodrow Wilson president?
(58)
What is a patent?
(59) ,
What is harmony?
(67)
What is a curriculum?
(68)
What is a dictagraph?
(69)
What is a telephone?
(70)
What is cube root?
(71)
What is a piano?
(7Z)
What is a cotton gin?
(73)
What is a cross-cut saw?
(74)
What is a dynamo?
(75)
What is meant by collateral security?
(76)
What is a notary public?
(77)
What country produces and uses most carpets in the world?
(54)
What is a check?
(78)
What is a trade acceptance?
(70)
What is a promissory note?
(80)
What is a warranty deed?
(81)
When was the base line surveyed between Kansas and Nebraska? r'
What is the area in square miles of Nebraska?
(90)
How many ounces of sugar to the pound?
(91)
How many pounds of coal to a ton?
(92)
What is the most common food?
(93)
What is the principal imitation of butter?
(4
What is condensed milk?
(95)
What is the most common and important fruit?
(98)
What is hominy?
(97)
What are prunes?
(98)
What is baking powder?
(99)
What is potash principally used for?
(100)
Which Are the 30 "Best" Questions?
After you answer as many as you can of the 100 ques
tions to the very best of your ability, pick out the 530 ques
tions which you consider would best indicate the general
knowledge of a person seeking a job. Mark X in the space
following the questions you select.
EXAMPLE Should you choose questions 26 and 51 as
two of your 30 "best" questions they should be marked as
follows:
26 X 51 j X ! 76
MARK 30 QUESTIONS ONLY
in Table Below
What is a spectrum? What is liability insurance?
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What are the seven colors of the spectrum? ' What is fire insurance?
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What are the five senses? What is a threshing machine?
(62) (84)
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1 26 1 j 51 76
2 f Ii 27 ii 52 I Ii 77
3 ) ii 28 T 53 I It 78 i
4 1 j 29 I ij "51 i l 79
5 1 30 I -i 55 jl 80
6 I i 31 I i: 56 1 M 81
T I Ii 32 ,; 57"l j 82
8 i II 33 i "58 I II "83"
1 9 j ff 34 I , 59 ,i "84 I
I 10 i 35 ! (U) it 85 I
11 ii 36 ! 61 j n 86
12 I H 37 II 62i i! 87 I
13 I if 38 ! ij 63 II 88
14 ji 39 ii 64 ii 89 I
15 Ii 40 j ii 65 90
16 I Ij 41 I i! 66 ii 91 I
17 ! 42 i l; 67 I II 92
18 I ' "ji 43 I ,i 68 i n 93 I
19 I il 44 " ii 69 I i! 94
20 I ii 45 I r 70 I Ii 95 I
21 i 46 I il 71 ! II 96 1
22 I Ij 47 'i 72 I Ii 97
23 I T- 48 I ! 73 I ji 98
24 I ii 49 i j, 74 I 99 I
25 i 50 75 I ii 100
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Who was Paul Revere?
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