Test Your Knowledge

1 – Which European king remained at the helm of government the longest?

2 – Who was the orchestra conductor who appeared with Deanna Durbin in the film "One Hundred Men and a Girl"?

3 – What causes the wind to blow?

4 – How long does the earth take to make one rotation?

5 – Who was Napoleon's second wife?

6 – Who was the one called the mad Queen of Sweden? And what is the name of the famous film star who played her part?

7 – Does the driest desert in the world lie in Africa or in Asia?

8 – What is the name of the country known as the land of "a thousand lakes"?

9 – Where is Adelaide?

10 – Two of these three things — the Pyramids, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Temple of Diana at Ephesus — share a certain fame. Which two are they? And what is that fame?

1 – Louis XIV, King of France, who ascended the throne in 1643 at the age of five and died 72 years later.

2 – Leopold Stokowski.

3 – It is the inclination of the air to press into the place where the pressure is most intense — that is, toward the place where the sun's heat has caused a rising current.

4 – One day (24 hours).

5 – Marie Louise of Austria.

6 – Queen Christina. Greta Garbo.

7 – In Asia: the Gobi Desert.

8 – Finland.

9 – Adelaide is the capital of South Australia.

10 – The Pyramids and the Temple of Diana at Ephesus — they belong among the Seven Wonders of the ancient monuments. It may be mentioned that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the seven wonders of the Middle Ages.