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Omaha Daily Bee Intelligence Questionnaire Sent in by.
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1 What country does tho ineit coffee com from?
27 Wko wat Jokn Hancock?
63 Wkat ia a turbine wheel?
85 Wkat ia a night letter?
2 What ia tke electro-pneumatic block signal?
28 From wkat country did wo get Louitiana?
64 Wkat it an oculitt?
86 What is a carburetor?
29 What it tke largctt ttate in tke union?
3 Wkat U an element?
30 Wkat it tke smallest ttate in the union?
65 Wkat is a caisson?
87 Who it governor of Nebraska?
31 Wkat atate it commonly known at tke Badger ttate?
4 Wkat it a diamond?
32 Wkat city in Pennsylvania wat nearly destroyed by flood in
May 1889?
66 What it a akoemaker'a last?
88 Can a man vote on his first papers in Nebraska?
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. 1921.
S What if atbeitos?
6 Wkat it aluminum?
7 Wkat is steel?
8 What it augar?
9 Wkat It eoka?
10 What ia ailk?
11 Wkat ia wool?
12 Wkat ia akoddy?
13 Wkat ia linoleum?
14 Wkat ia tinder?
IS Wkat ia atrawboard?
16 Wkat ia akale?
17 How many. start in the American flag?
It Wkat it the Declaration of Independence?
19 Wkat ia tke U. S. Conttitution?
20 What ia congress?
y. ZI WBat are taxes.
22 When did the U. S. take over the Panama Canal?
v 23 Who discovered the Pacific ocean?
24 Where did the Mayflower Pilgrims land?
25 How many atatea in tke union?
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26 Who was Paul Revere?
33 Wko was the most fameas Frenck keroina?
34 Who reigned longest of EngKsk Sovereigns?
35 Who in U. S. invented tke telepkone?
36 Wko in U. S. invented tke telegrapk?
37 Who invented the typesetting mackine?
38 Wko invented tke cotton gin?
39 Wko invented wireless telegrapky? '
40 Wko invented tke talking mackine?
41 Who invented the tewing machine?
42 Wko invented tke adding mackine?
43 Who invented tke typewriter?
44 Wko in the U. S. invented tke submarine?
45 Wkat first pneumatic invention attracted general attention ia U. S.?
46 What is tke first planet in order of distance from tke sun?
47 Who discovered the law of gravitation?
48 Wkat causes tke tides?
49 la porcelain a good conductor of keat?
67 Wkat it harmony?
68 What ia a curriculum?
69 Wkat it a dictagraph?
70 Wkat it a telepkone?
71 What ia cub root?
72 What is a piano?
73 What ia a cotton gia?
74 What is a cross-cut saw ?
75 What ia a dynamo?
50 Which are the five largest islands in the world?
51 Name a large inland body of water having ao outlet?
52 What is the highest mountain ia tke world?
53 Wkat is the longest railroad ia the world?
54 What country produces and uses most carpels in the world?
55 What insect carries malaria?
56 What is the oldest university in the U. S.?
57 Who was America's greatest humorist?
58 Of what university was Woodrow Wilson president?
59 Wkat is a pa teat?
60 Wkat is a spectrum?
61 Wkat are tke seven colors of tka spectrum?
62 Wkat are the five tenses?
76 What is meant by collateral aecurity?
77 What ia a notary public?
78 What ia a check?
79 What is a trade acceptance?
80 What is a promissory note?
81 What is a warranty deed?
82 What is liability insurance?
83 What is fire insurance?
84 Wkat ia a tkresking mackine?
89 When was the base line surveyed between Kansas' and Nebraska?
90 What is the area in square miles of Nebraska?
91 How many ounces of sugar to the pound?
92 How many pounds of coal to a ton?
93 What is the most common food?
94 What is the principal imitation of butter?
95 What is condensed milk?
96 What is the most common and important fruit?
97 What is hominy?
98 What are prunes?
99 What is baking powder?
100 What is potash principally used for?
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 30 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" luestions they should be marked as
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1 26 X II 51 X 76
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MARK 30 QUESTIONS ONLY
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