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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953
T H*E THRESHER
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How Well Do You Know America?
Editor's Note: The following quiz was the brainchild -of
Dr.. Thorp, Rice's visiting professor this year. It was printed
in the Library bulletin and we are told the library staff averaged
about 40% of the answers. Dr. Thorp, who made up the quiz
several years ago, confessed that by this time he, too, had to
look up some of the answers.
I. Name a work, significant in
American history, written by each of
the following:
1. Alfred Thayer Mahan
2. Hinton Rowan Helper
3. Henry George
4. Tom Paine
5. George Washington
II. What have the persons in each
of these groups in common?
1. H. C. Folger, H. E. Hunting-
ton, John Carter Brown
2. Orestes Brownson, Isaac
Hecker, John Hughes, John
Murray Odin
3. Edward Everett, Daniel Web-"'
ster, Robert Y. Hayne
4. Matthew Quay, Thomas C.
Piatt, Leland Stanford
III. What activities do you asso-
ciate with each of the following?
1. Hull House
2. The Boston Athenaeum
3. Faneuil Hall
4. The Smithsonian Institute
5. Antoine's
IV. Who were?
1. The Rail-Splitter
2. The Plumed Knight
3. The Boy Orator of the Platte
4. The Trust-Buster
.5. .The Little Giant
6. The Good Gray Poet
7. The Happy Warrior
8. The Swedish Nightingale
V. Describe, in a sentence:
1. The American system
2. Manifest destiny
3. The Under Ground Railroad
4. Credit Mobilier
5. The Fi-eedman's Bureau
6. Black Friday
7. The New Freedom
8. Nullification
VI. Who were the individuals
whose names are preserved in the
following words?
1. maverick
2. bloomers
3. wistaria
4. gerrymander
5. gardenia
6. Pullman
VII. Where did these boats put in ?
1. Half-Moon
2. Welcome
3. Mayflower
4. Goodspeed
5. Kalmar Nyckel
VIII. Who said?
1. These are the times that try
men's souls. The summer sol-
dier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink
from the service of their
country; but he that stands
it now deserves the love and
thanks of man and woman.
2. The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and
tyrants. It is its natural ma-
nure.
3. There hardly ever existed
such a thing as a bad peace
or a good war.
4. No matter whether the Con-
stitution follows the flag or
not, the Supreme Court fol-
lows the iliction returns.
5. First in war, first in • peace,
first in the hearts of his
countrymen.
6. Our words—our lives — our
pains—nothing! The taking of
our lives—lives of a good
shoemaker or a poor fish-
peddler—all! That last mo-
ment belongs to us — that
agony is our triumph.
IX. What did the decisions of these
cases establish ?
1. Gibbons v. Ogden
2. Dartmouth College v. Wood-
ward
3. Muller v. Oregon
4. Dred Scott v. Sanford
5. Marbury v. Madison
X. Spot (author and work):
1. When lilacs last in the door-
ya^rd bloom'd,
And the great star early
droop'd in the western sky
in the night,
I mourn'd and yet shall mourn
with ever-returning spring.
2. And this is why, from time
to time
In Tilbury Town, we look
beyond
Horizons for the man Fla-
monde.
3. In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
J "Whose heart-strings are a
lute";
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel
4. I went to the woods because
I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential
facts of life, and see if I could
learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
XI. What was the craft of each of
these men?
1. Samuel Mclntire
2. Ralph Adams Cram
3. Charles J. Connick
4. Paul Revere
5. Henry William Stiegel
6. Duncan Phyfe
XII. What are the American equi-
valents of these English terms?
1. sweets
2. waistcoat
3. semi-quaver
4. ratepayer
5. crossing-sweeper
6. workhouse
7. limited liability company
8. bug
9. braces
XIII. What would you be expected
to do at a
1. play party
2. husking-bee
3. shivaree
4. hoe-down
5. gander-pulling
XIV. For what are these streets
noted ?
1. Chestnut Street, Salem, Mass.
2. Beale Street, Memphis
places ?
3. Nob Hill, San Francisco
4. The Bowery, New York
XV. Who painted?
1. Stag at Sharkey's
2. Mrs. Thomas Boylston
3. Peace and Plenty
4. Snap the Whig
5. Tornado over Kansas
XVI. What happened at these
1. Homestead, Pennsylvania
2. San Jacinto, Texas
3. The Donner Pass
4. Washington-on-the-Brazos
5. Promontory, Utah
6. Marietta, Ohio
7. Titusville, Pennsylvania
XVII. Explain (as to a Europ-
ean):
1. Amen corner
2. carpet-bagger
3. ward-heeler
4. happy hunting grounds
5. come-outer
6. four-flusher
7. muck-raker
8. panhandler
J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil
Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test
"HURRMPH"! trumpeted Sheedy, "What a elephant time to
have my hair act up. Might as well break my date and get
trunk!" Luckily he was overheard by a Pachydermitologist who
said, "Tusk, tusk! You've got a messy big top from pouring
those buckets of water on your head. Get out of your ivory tower
and visit any toilet'goods counter for a bottle or tube of Wildroj^
Cream-Oil, "Your Hair's Best Friend". Non-alcoholic. Contains
soothing Lanolin. Relieves dryness. Removes loose, ugly dan-
druff. Helps you pass the Finger-Nail Test." Paul got Wildroot
Cream-Oil, and now all the girls tent to him more than ever. So
why don't you try Wildroot Cream-Oil? It only costs peanuts
—29£. And once you try it, you'll really have a circus.
of 131 So. Harris HillRd.. Willict/mr.villet N. Y.
Wildroot Company, Inc.. Buffalo 11, N. Y. r;,| 4>}f
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EVERYONE
CAME OUT... IN
FOCUS/ too!
this
kid's 60NNA
be a great
photographer
some day/
how can they teu.
so soon ? leave us
■await developments!
Only time will tell how good
"a tyro photographer will be! And
only time will tell about a cigarette!
Take your time
ft r it
Test
CAMELS
for 30 days
-for MILDNESS
and FLAVOR I
he'll make
a fortune
taking little
shots of
big SHOTS!
THERE MUST BE A REASON WHY Camel
is America's most popular cigarette-
leading all other brands by billions!
Camels have the two things smokers
want most—rich, full flavor and cool,
cool mildness...pack after pack! Try
Camels for 30 days and see how mild,
how flavorful, how thoroughly enjoy-
able they are as your steady smoket
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More Psople Smoke Camels
THAN ANY OTHER
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1953, newspaper, February 20, 1953; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230931/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.