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1. Which two U.S. National Parks are located at least partly in Montana?
2. Name the five countries that suffered the most military deaths during World War I.
3. What …
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Questions
1. Which two U.S. National Parks are located at least partly in Montana?
2. Name the five countries that suffered the most military deaths during World War I.
3. What percentage of the corn grown in the United States is sweet corn?
4. What are the athletic nicknames (mascots) of the Ivy League schools Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania?
5. Put these extinct animals in order from the most recent extinction to the oldest: Tasmanian tiger, passenger pigeon, dodo, woolly mammoth, and saber-toothed tiger.
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Answers
1. Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.
2. Germany (about 2.0 million), Russia (1.8 million), France (1.4 million), Austria-Hungary (1.2 million), Great Britain and the British Empire (about 1.1 million). The United States ranked 10th with about 117,000 military deaths.
3. About 1%. The other 99% is primarily field (dent) corn.
4. Harvard – Crimson; Yale – Bulldogs; Princeton – Tigers; Penn – Quakers.
5. Tasmanian tiger (1936), Passenger pigeon (1914), Dodo (1681), Woolly mammoth (about 1650 BC), Saber-toothed tiger (about 10,000 BC).
