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1. Epidemic parotitis is the medical name for what illness that affects the parotid salivary glands?
A) Measles
B) Mumps
C) Scarlet fever D) Tetanus
2. Which of these countries was NOT an original member state of the United Nations in 1945? A) Colombia
B) France
C) Iraq
D) Switzerland
3. Which thriller writer created the character of Jason Bourne?
A) Lee Child
B) Robert Ludlum
C) Helen MacInnes D) Martin Cruz Smith
4. Dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta are large objects in the asteroid belt between which two planets?
A) Mars and Jupiter B) Mercury and Venus C) Saturn and Uranus D) Venus and Earth
5. Who or what did George H.W. Bush refer to as “a thousand points of light”?
A) Colleges B) Community organizations
C) Doctors D) Soldiers
6. All acids contain which chemical element?
A) Arsenic
B) Chlorine
C) Hydrogen
D) Nitrogen
Answers
1) Epidemic parotitis is the medical name for mumps. 2) Switzerland was not an original member state of the United Nations. It joined the U.N. in 2002. 3) Robert Ludlum created the character Jason Bourne. 4) Ceres and Vesta are large objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. 5) George H.W. Bush called community volunteer organizations “a thousand points of light.”
6) All acids contain the element hydrogen.
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