Issue Number:22

Date: 01/06/1934

p. 02 and 05, c. 01 and 03

Do You Know This One?

Thomas J. Sellers

1. What is the Monroe Doctrine?
2. Name five of the eight planets in our solar system.
3. Name the first five books of the Old Testament.
4. Name at least three major religions.
5. Who first sailed around the world?
6. Who was the "Bard of Avon"?
7. Define Jazz.
8. What books, claimed to be divinely inspired, represent the sacred writings of (a) Christianity, (b) Judaism, (c) Mohammedanism.
9. What famous poison did Socrates drink?
10. What are the three classic orders of Greek architecture?

Editor's Note: These questions will appear each week as part of this paper's "Adult Education" program. Keep the questions and anwers on file.

Answers 1. The foreign policy established by President Monroe that the U. S. would regard as unfriendly any endeavor to extend European power in the Western Hemisphere.
2. The eight are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
3. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
4. The major religions are as follows: Confucianism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Buddism, Taoism, Shintoism, Judaism, Christianity.
5. Magellan
6. William Shakespeare.
7. A modern form of music in which syncopation is played against a regular rhythm.
8. (a) Bible, (b) Talmud, (c) Koran.
9. Socrates drank hemlock.
10. (Thanks to captain Robert Johnson) Doric, Ionic, Corinthian.