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Missing Days

1. How many months have 30 days or less? For Bragging Rights, name those months.

2. Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours"?

3. In what battle was the preceding quote heard and remembered?

4. Name the first pope.

5. In Greek mythology, who is identified as the supreme god?

6. Name the Egyptian leader who was assassinated on Oct. 6, 1981.

7. Who piloted the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean? And for Bragging Rights, how many hours did the flight take?

8. What former president's son served as secretary of war and later as minister to Great Britain following the death of his father?

9. What country was invaded by Adolf Hitler's forces in 1939, thus beginning World War II?

10. Name the first European to land in America.

Answers

Five months have no more than 30 days — February, April, June, September and November.

2. These are the words of Naval Cmdr. Oliver Perry.

3. Perry said this statement during the War of 1812's Battle of Lake Erie.

4. St. Peter was the first pope.

5. Zeus is the mythological leader.

6. President Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated in 1981.

7. Charles A. Lindbergh piloted the 33-and-a-half hour flight.

8. Abe Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) served in these government positions.

9. Hitler attacked Poland.

10. Leif Ericson of Norway was the first European to land in America.

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