CURIOUS AND INTERESTING FACTS
What house of rulers, founded in the beginning of the ninth century,
has continued an unbroken chain to the present day? 878. What are the Homestead Laws? 882. Where are the largest eggs found? 589. Where is the largest lock in the world? 1218. When was the period known as the Middle Ages? 1222. What does the term Dark Ages indicate? 1222. What cathedral contains 60,000 statues on the outside in the niches?
1223. What prince was believed by his countrymen to have discovered America
three hundred years before Columbus? 1142. What woman born in prison became the wife of a king? 1151. What kind of a garment is a poncho? 1525. What woman was queen for only nine days? 806. Where is Mammoth Cave, and what is its size? 1155. Where are the cultivation and use of tobacco forbidden? 1264. What people call their country the Flowery Kingdom? 389. In what country are but few drunkards seen, and why? 390. What great city in ancient days boasted of having no citizen in want?
1526.
What was the first express company? 642. Where are the Krupp gun works? 627. What people sent to Darius every third year four pints of gold dust?
629.
What is the origin of "I came, I saw, I conquered"? 2131. At what place is the shortest day only three hours and twelve minutes,
the longest twenty-one hours and forty-eight minutes? 91. Where is the noted stone circle, Stonehenge? 1832. What hermit spent thirty years on a tower? 1842. Who furnished the money for the Suez Canal? 1843. What was the Rye House Plot? 1650. Who vainly offered a city for a ruby? 1641. What is the largest and finest theater in the world? 1898. In what countries did they have lake dwellings? 1022. What nations have done most to improve the artillery service? 115. In what battle were modern arms first used? 107. Where is the most famous artesian well? 113. From what ancient city was the obelisk of Central Park in New York
brought? 859.
To whom was the name Puritans first given? 1564. What is known as a Pyrrhic victory? 1567.
What valuable discoveries were made by Sir William Siemens? 1753. What was the South Sea Scheme? 1787. What was the Stamp Act? 1808.
In what island did a three years' drouth cause over thirty thousand people to perish? 330. What is Cooper Union? 450. Which one of the seven wonders of the world was set on fire the night
Alexander was born, and why? 621. What city founded in the tenth century contains architectural styles of
almost every century since? 689. What were the Crusades? 483. Who were the Seven Wise Men? 1727. What were the Seven Wonders of the World? 1727. Who were the Seven Sleepers? 1727. What is meant by the term Sealed Orders? 1714. Where did the famous exploit of the Maid of Saragossa take place?
1679. At what ancient harvest festival were slaves banqueted by their master
while he served them? 1683.
What led to the expression, "Squatter Sovereignty"? 546. Who was Confucius? 441. What queen was crowned king? 395. What nation uses the most beer? 193.
What is the amount of beer used in the U. S. for each person? 193. What is the largest bell in the world? 197.
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