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The Oath is in

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1. In the U.S. Constitution, where will you find quotation marks?

2. Which U.S. president signed legislation to bring the Department of Agriculture into the Cabinet?

3. Prior to its 1990 reunification, what name was placed on East Germany?

4. Andover, Mass., Answer Man-er Adam Poirier wants us to start primary efforts for baseball with this question: Name the seven ways a batter can get to first base.

5. What organization was founded at a 1945 conference in San Francisco?

6. In a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., what famed phrase was used by Winston Churchill?

7. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a Cabinet leadership post. Name the woman and, for Bragging Rights, the Cabinet section that she led.

8. What country was expelled from the U.N. in 1971? What country replaced it?

9. What is an anthropoid ape?

10. Which Great Lake is completely within the borders of the United States?

Answers

1. The quotation marks place emphasis on the presidential oath of office in the Constitution.

2.

Abraham Lincoln approved the creation of the USDA.

3. East Germany had been termed as the German Democratic Republic.

4. The seven means of reaching first base safely are: a base hit, a base on balls (known as a walk) by the pitcher, a fielder's error, a fielder's choice on the batter or on a base runner, being hit by a pitched ball, a catcher's interference or a dropped third strike.

5. That conference was the base of starting the United Nations.

6. The British prime minister brought out the "Iron Curtain" in his speech.

7. Frances Perkins was put in the lead post as secretary of the Department of Labor.

8. The People's Republic of China (the Communist country on the Mainland of China) replaced the Republic of China (Taiwan), known generally as Free China.

9. That ape series is described in the Desk Encyclopedia as the animals closely resembling man — gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.

10. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that is completely located in the United States.

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