The Questions…
1. What is the oldest active volcano on earth?
2. What are the world’s number one and number two fruit crops?
3. Where and when did the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history occur?
4. What’s the difference between jam and jelly?
5. What do the writer Edgar Allen Poe and the singer Jerry Lee Lewis have in common?
The Answers…
1. Mt. Etna on the island of Sicily. Its first known eruption was in 1500 BC. It has erupted 200 times since then, the most recent being on May 22, 2020.
2. Number one, grapes. Number two, bananas.
3. Galveston, Texas, 1900. Between 8,000 and 12,000 people died.
4. Jam is made by crushing the fruit and adding the gelling agent pectin. Jelly is made by crushing the fruit, discarding the solid parts, and adding pectin.
5. Both married a 13-year-old first cousin.
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