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A Look North

1. What is the largest city in Canada?

2. Do you know the seven ways in which a batter can get on base in a baseball game? — Andover, Mass., Answer Man-er Adam Poirier

3. Who authored the 1823 immortal poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"?

4. What was the famous name given to the short-term boxer known as Packy East?

5. What famed cartoonist's drawing became the most popular image of St. Nicholas?

6. Name the longest river in the United States.

7. What commission is awarded to West Point graduates?

8. What commission is awarded to graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.?

9. Name the top five states according to the 2007 Census Bureau.

10. What important point in history did Osami Nagano command?

Answers

1. Toronto is Canada's largest city.

2. The seven ways to get on base: a hit; a base of balls, termed a walk; a fielder's error; a fielder's choice; being hit by a pitch; catcher's interference; and a dropped third strike.

Clement Clark Moore wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas."

4. Packy was dropped in favor of the name "Bob Hope."

5. German-born artist Thomas Nast created the most common Santa Claus image.

6. The 2,466-mile Missouri River is the longest in the United States.

7. West Point graduates are commissioned as 2nd lieutenants.

8. Naval Academy graduates are commissioned as ensigns in the Navy or as 2nd lieutenants in the Marine Corps.

9. The top five states in 2007: California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.

10. Japanese Adm. Nagano plotted and commanded the assault on Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.

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