| 1. Which is NOT a fact about winter in
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| | Year Without Summer?" Are all these facts
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| the animal kingdom?
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| | true, or is one false?
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| A. Some species of domesticated dog turn
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| | A. During June and July Connecticut
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| white in the winter.
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| | experienced a rare summer blizzard and
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| B. Mountain goats with their luxurious
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| | snow and sleet fell in Danville, Vermont.
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| 3-inch long winter coats can endure
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| | B. While unseasonably frigid summer
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| winter temperatures as low as minus 50
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| | temperatures brought crop failures all
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| degrees Fahrenheit and powerful winds up
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| | over New England, Massachusetts had snow
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| to 100 mph.
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| | flurries.
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| C. The male moose sheds its antlers every
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| | C. Savannah, Georgia, had a high
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| winter and grows a new set the following
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| | temperature of only 46 degrees Fahrenheit
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| year.
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| | on July 4.
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| D. The weasel and the ermine are the same
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| | D. The eruption of the Tambora volcano in
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| animal. The only difference is the brown
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| | Java the previous year spewed dust and
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| coat of the weasel turns white in the
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| | ash into the atmosphere and caused the
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| winter when it is known as an ermine.
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| | unusually cold summer of 1816.
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| A. Some species of domesticated dogs turn
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| | All true.
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| white in the winter.
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| | FTO: Pretty weird, huh?
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| FTO: At least as far as The QuizQueen
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| | 9. Which United States city has the
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| knows this isn't true.
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| | coldest winter temperature on average?
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| 2. Which flying creature fact is true?
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| | A. Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
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| A. The Rufous, a species of Hummingbird,
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| | B. Kotzebue, Alaska
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| nests in Alaska and migrates miles to
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| | C. Helena, Montana
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| Mexico each winter and then back to
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| | D. Barrow, Alaska
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| Alaska in the spring.
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| | D. Barrow, Alaska
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| B. Many species of butterfly fly south
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| | FTO: Although none of these places are
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| for the winter just like many birds.
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| | too balmy in the winter! Just imagine an
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| C. None
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| | average temperature of 4.1 degrees
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| D. Both
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| | Fahrenheit.
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| D. Both
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| | 10. On average, one inch of rain is
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| FTO: I wouldn't have expected to find
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| | equivalent to how many inches of snow?
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| Hummingbirds in Alaska either!
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| | A. 1
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| 3. Ice fog is a winter weather
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| | B. 5
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| phenomenon. Which fact is NOT related to
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| | C. 10
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| this event?
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| | D. 12
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| A. It frequently occurs in Alaska.
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| | C. 10
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| B. It frequently occurs in Maine.
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| | FTO: Results can vary, but that's the
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| C. It glitters in sunlight and is
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| | average, according to The QuizQueen's
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| colorfully known as diamond dust.
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| | weather sources.
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| D. It contains minute ice particles.
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| | 11. How much do you know about snow?
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| B. It frequently occurs in Maine.
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| | Which snow fact is true?
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| FTO: OK, maybe some Maine resident can
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| | A. It must be 32 degrees Fahrenheit or
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| prove me wrong, but it wasn't listed
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| | colder for it to snow.
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| among MY facts.
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| | B. It must be 0 degrees Fahrenheit or
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| 4. Did you know that human hair grows at
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| | colder for it to snow.
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| different rates for different times of
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| | C. It cannot snow from clear skies.
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| day and year? For example, it speeds up
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| | D. The temperature of snow clouds must be
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| in the morning, slows down in the
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| | 32 degrees Fahrenheit or colder for snow
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| afternoon, and speeds up again in the
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| | to form.
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| evening. What is the rate of growth in
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| | D. The temperature of snow clouds must be
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| the winter?
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| | 32 degrees Fahrenheit or colder for snow
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| A. Slower than summer.
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| | to form.
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| B. Faster than summer.
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| | FTO: It can be warmer on the ground and
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| C. The same as in summer.
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| | you don't even need clouds to snow.
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| D. The same all year round because the
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| | Doesn't seem fair, really.
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| QuizQueen is making this up.
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| | 12. Test your snowflake knowledge and
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| A. Slower than summer.
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| | pick out the incorrect answer.
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| FTO: Gee, did you really think The
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| | A. Snowflakes comes in several basic
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| QuizQueen would make up such a silly
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| | shapes, hexagonal plates, stellar
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| question?
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| | crystals, columns, needles, and graupel.
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| 5. During the winter, winds seem to bite
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| | B. No two snowflakes are exactly alike.
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| through you with cold. Can you pick out
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| | C. Snowfall levels are categorized into
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| the true windy phenomenon?
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| | flurries, showers, squalls, blowing snow,
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| A. The Bora is a violent cold north wind
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| | and blizzards.
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| in the Adriatic.
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| | D. It can be too cold to snow.
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| B. The Mistral is a strong cold dry north
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| | D. It can be too cold to snow.
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| wind that blows during the winter in
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| | FTO: It can never be too cold to snow
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| Rhone Valley, France.
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| | although it usually doesn't snow very
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| C. The Puna is a cold dry wind that blows
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| | heavily when temperatures fall really
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| in Peru.
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| | low.
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| D. The Williwaw is a sudden strong cold
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| | 13. How advised are you about winter
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| wind off-shore from mountains in Alaska
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| | weather advisories? Is one of these
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| and Canada.
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| | false?
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| Trick question, they are all winds!
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| | A. A blizzard warning means snow and
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| FTO: They were such fun names I couldn't
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| | strong winds will combine to produce
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| choose and so went with them all.
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| | blinding snow with near zero visibility,
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| 6. Can you pick out the FALSE nor'easter
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| | deep drifts, and life-threatening wind
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| fact?
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| | chill.
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| A. This is the coastal warm front storm
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| | B. The difference between a winter storm
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| which typically strikes New England in
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| | watch and a winter storm warning is that
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| February when warm moist air picked up
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| | severe winter conditions have begun when
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| from the tropics moves north up the coast
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| | a winter storm warning is issued.
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| and meets a mass of polar air from
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| | C. A winter weather advisory is when
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| Eastern Canada and the North Atlantic
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| | weather causes severe conditions that are
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| which is moving south.
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| | inconvenient and may be hazardous,
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| B. A nor'easter is created when a mass of
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| | especially for motorists.
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| warm air hits a mass of cold air
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| | D. A frost-freeze warning means that
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| somewhere in the vicinity of Cape Cod.
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| | temperatures are expected to fall below
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| C. The winds of a nor'easter blow so
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| | zero degrees Fahrenheit and may cause
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| strong and fierce that even when snow
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| | significant damage to plants, crops, or
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| falls it does not accumulate.
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| | fruit trees.
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| D. When warm air moves up and over a
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| | D. A frost-freeze warning means that
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| layer of cold air, a nor'easter is
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| | temperatures are expected to fall below
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| created and snow crystals form and fall.
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| | zero degrees Fahrenheit and may cause
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| If the storm moves quickly, cold rain or
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| | significant damage to plants, crops, or
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| snow will fall for six to eight hours. If
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| | fruit trees.
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| the warm air stalls against a high
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| | FTO: Well, yeah, but they don't usually
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| pressure wall, the snowfall may last
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| | issue warnings about that do they, they
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| 12-24 hours or even longer.
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| | only bother when it is nearing 32 degrees
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| C. The winds of a nor'easter blow so
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| | Fahrenheit, right?
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| strong and fierce that even when snow
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| | 14. The National Weather Service defines
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| falls it does not accumulate.
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| | "heavy snow" as:
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| FTO: I imagine there are plenty of people
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| | A. Snowfall that accumulates 6 or more
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| who WISH this were true.
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| | inches in 12 hours or 8 or more inches in
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| 7. In 1888, the United States experienced
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| | 24 hours.
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| one of the worst recorded blizzards.
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| | B. Wet snow.
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| Which Blizzard of '88 fact was made up by
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| | C. Thundersnow.
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| The QuizQueen?
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| | D. None of these answers is right, The
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| A. On March 11, 1888, a nor'easter
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| | QuizQueen must not know.
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| stalled over New York City and dumped 21
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| | A. Snowfall that accumulates 6 or more
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| inches of snow with 70 mph gusts piling
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| | inches in 12 hours or 8 or more inches in
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| snow into 20-foot drifts which marooned
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| | 24 hours.
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| New Yorkers in elevated trains,
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| | FTO: Don't you just love the term
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| carriages, and office buildings.
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| | thundersnow? The QuizQueen will send some
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| B. The Blizzard of 1888 was completely
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| | your way if you guessed "D."
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| invented by The QuizQueen and in fact no
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| | 15. Which U.S. city has the highest
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| snow fell that winter in northeast
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| | average snowfall?
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| America except in trace amounts.
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| | A. Stampede Pass, Washington
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| C. The 1888 blizzard extended from Maine
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| | B. Valdez, Alaska
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| to Washington, D.C., and from New York to
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| | C. Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
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| Pittsburgh. The storm stalled for a day
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| | D. Watertown, New York
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| and a half. In Connecticut and central
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| | A. Stampede Pass, Washington
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| Massachusetts, between 40 and 50 inches
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| | FTO: 440.3 inches! Yipes, even for
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| of snow fell. Winds piled it into 40 to
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| | someone who grew up in the snow belt that
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| 50 foot drifts which buried houses and
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| | is depressing to think about.
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| trains.
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| | 16. Which U.S. city has the coldest
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| D. From Chesapeake Bay to Nantucket, 200
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| | record temperature?
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| ships were sunk or severely damaged. In
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| | A. Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
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| 1888, 400 lives were lost, a tragedy that
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| | B. Glasgow, Montana
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| modern weather forecasting has spared us.
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| | C. Nome, Alaska
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| B. The Blizzard of 1888 was completely
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| | D. McGrath, Alaska
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| invented by The QuizQueen and in fact no
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| | D. McGrath, Alaska
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| snow fell that winter in northeast
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| | FTO: -75, can you even imagine? Mt.
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| America except in trace amounts.
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| | Washington is the warmest with its record
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| FTO: This was pretty serious stuff.
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| | low of only -47 degrees Fahrenheit.
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| 8. Do you know why 1816 was called "The
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