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Our National Pastime's Inventor?

1. What Union Army general do people still occasionally claim created the sport of baseball, even though more often, he is not listed as its inventor?

2. What event that took place in 1777 is celebrated each year June 14?

3. How many U.S. military academies are there? For Bragging Rights, name them.

4. When the Declaration of Independence was approved, 12 of the colonies voted in favor of it. Name the colony that temporarily abstained from approving the document.

5. Name the author of the noted novel "Moby Dick."

6. In the 1992 presidential election, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush each finished third in one state. Can you name the two states?

7. What man opened the first five-and-ten-cent store, in Lancaster, Pa., in 1879?

8. What motor vehicle was invented by the German inventor Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler in 1885?

9. What city is the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco?

10. Which of the 50 states is nicknamed the Treasure State?

Answers

1. Abner Doubleday usually is not considered to be baseball's inventor.

June 14 marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. flag. Thus, it's Flag Day.

3. The five military academies are the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

4. New York held back temporarily from approving the Declaration of Independence but did later join in.

5. Herman Melville (1819-91) wrote the famed novel.

6. Clinton finished third in Utah, behind Bush and Ross Perot. Bush finished third in Maine, about 300 votes behind Perot. Thanks to Lilburn, Ga., Answer Man-er Marshall Miller, who sent us this question.

7. The famed five-and-dimes were begun by F.W. (Frank Winfield) Woolworth.

8. With skills in inventing internal-combustion engines, Daimler invented the motorcycle.

9. Rabat is the capital of Morocco.

10. Montana is known as the Treasure State.

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