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    Question 1: Which geographical term describes a geological formation that slopes down from the center in all directions?
    A. Quean
    B. Quassia
    C. Quaquaversal
    D. Quartan
    Question 2: This US National Park, famous for its mineral waters, is located in southeastern Oklahoma, near the city of Sulphur.
    A. Hot Springs
    B. Yellowstone
    C. Platt
    D. Mesa Verde
    Question 3: The Mars family were the richest American family of 1988, according to Fortune magazine. They named one of their most successful products after their horse, who was named what?
    A. Snickers
    B. Bounty
    C. MM
    D. Corny
    Question 4: In 1915, the great American baseball player of the 1920s, Babe Ruth, hit his first home against which team?
    A. The Yankees
    B. The Red Stockings
    C. The White Sox
    D. The Red Sox
    Question 5: In 1982, this major Japanese car manufacturer was the first one to begin production of Japanese cars in the USA.
    A. Mazda
    B. Honda
    C. Toyota
    D. Mitsubishi
    Question 6: You can get lead poisoning from a modern pencil.
    A. True
    B. False
    Question 7: In what year were pencils first mass-produced?
    A. 1662 A.D.
    B. 476 A.D.
    C. 1812 A.D.
    D. 1821 A.D.
    Question 8: Which of these is not among the reasons for which most pencils are yellow?
    A. To show that they come from China
    B. To make them easier to see on a desk top
    C. To show that they are top quality
    D. To copy the style of the first pencils made in the USA
    Question 9: Which of these is a real event in the history of the pencil?
    A. The discovery of rubber in Malaysia in 1823
    B. The discovery of lead in what is now Turkey, ca. 573 A.D.
    C. The discovery that cedar wood has three times the tensile strength of any other wood
    D. The discovery of graphite in Seathwaite, Burrowdale, England
    Question 10: Who was the famous American writer whose first job was selling and making pencils?
    A. Henry David Thoreau
    B. John Steinbeck
    C. Benjamin Franklin
    D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Question 11: This famous American writer wrote all of the novel Cannery Row in pencil. He claimed to have used 60 pencils a day for his writings.
    A. John Steinbeck
    B. Henry David Thoreau
    C. Ernest Hemingway
    D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Question 12: In the first manned rocket flights into space, pencils, not pens, were given to the cosmonauts and astronauts. Why?
    A. They were less dangerous because they contained no metal.
    B. Pencils can write in zero gravity.
    C. They were less affected by lower amounts of oxygen.
    D. Pencils are lighter than pens.
    Question 13: Approximately how many pencils are sold annually in the USA?
    A. 500,000,000
    B. 2,000,000,000
    C. 200,000,000
    D. 20,000,000
    Question 14: A great step forward in the world of pencils was made in 1858. What was it?
    A. Sears-Roebuck began selling pencils in their catalog.
    B. Hyman Lipman began putting an eraser on the end of pencils.
    C. Sarah Teasdale Wallace patented the first indelible pencil.
    D. Irving Kellogg Watson patented the first drawing pencils in different colors.
    Question 15: If your pencil has a pinkish grain and little or no smell, then it is probably made from which substance?
    A. incense-cedar
    B. tropical rainforest wood
    C. plastic
    D. non-incense-cedar