The Key

The Key Challenges Readers to a “Fact Finding Mission”

Here's a fact finding challenge you can do on your own or in teams. Using an encyclopedia or the Internet, find the answers to the following questions. Send your answers to the Editor, The Key Newspaper, c/o Milwaukee Area Technical College, 700 West State Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53233; or, email them to balistrv@matc.edu.

The Key will send a copy of the 2005 Readers as Writers Anthology of Winning Entries to the first five correct entries received by mail, and to the first five correct entries received by email. Winner's names will be published in the November or December issue of The Key. Don't forget to send your name and full mailing address. You must be a student in an adult literacy, GED, HSED or ESL program in Wisconsin to qualify. Please include the name of the program and your instructor or tutor's name.

Here are your questions:

Many years ago — before there were cars — mail was delivered by horse. The Pony Express operated between St. Joseph, Missouri, and a city in California. What city was that?
In the United States, the first women's fashion magazine appeared around 1830. What was the title of that magazine?
Two conditions combine to make Antarctica the coldest place on Earth during the winter. One of those conditions is high altitude. What is the other?
In the United States, Daylight Saving Time is the practice of turning clocks ahead by one hour in the spring and back by one hour in the fall. Why do states such as Arizona and Hawaii choose not to participate?
Dried by the sun, adobe bricks have been used as building materials for centuries. Of what are adobe bricks made?
What type of weather results when the warm waters of the Gulf Stream meet cold winds from the north?
Was the dinosaur called Apatosaurus a meat eater (carnivore) or a plant eater (herbivore)?
Which instrument in the orchestra produces the highest notes — the flute or the piccolo?
Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the immune system attacks the body's nerve cells. At what age do symptoms of MS most usually appear?
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt — held a first-of-its-kind event in 1933. What kind of event was that?

Source: Education World®