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Where was a recent meeting held with over 190 world leaders?

• In Belgium at the World Leaders Assembly

• In Syria near the border of the conflict with neighboring countries

• in California at the national United Nations Headquarters

• in New York at the United Nations Headquarters

In a speech at this meeting, what did President Trump say that the United States would do?

• pull out of the International Nuclear Deal with Iran

• pull out of the Global treaty to inflict a truce upon Syrian refugees

• pull out of the America First Policy and move toward global freedoms

• pull out of the agreement to free refugees from Iran and let the prisoners of war go free instead

What U.S. state is nicknamed for the Sable Palmetto tree, which is the state's official tree?

• Washington

• Florida

• Georgia

• South Carolina

Why is a community in Georgestown County, South Carolina concerned about the effects of hurricane Florence?

• There are five rivers in the area whose overflowing banks have put this community at threat for major flooding.

• Hurricane Florence made landfall in the U.S. state of North Carolina and caused quite a bit of damage.

• South Carolina eventually became the Palmetto State and is known for its high rates of iodine.

• South Carolina`s Atlantic coast between the cities of Charleston and Myrtle Beach has millions of dollars invested in its tourism industries.

Who was Levi Hutchins?

• They guy credited with inventing the most popular brand of jeans in America.

• The guys credited with inventing the first American mechanical alarm clock.

• The guy who was recently found on the banks of a South Carolinian river and he predicted the flooding that is happening now.

• The guy who helped create the first cell phone in the early 1900's, but he did not patent it until almost 100 years later.

Before the mid-1800's what was the job of a "knocker upper?"

• From the early 1800`s to the 1960`s, waking people up was a paid job that knocker uppers did.

• In the early part of the 20th century, they created bamboo poles and worked in factories.

• They were the husbands of the women who worked factory jobs and paid the peasants in the community.

• They were people that shouted "Wake up!" to factory workers who needed to get up early.

What might be a logical explanation for how the term "knocker upper" was coined?

• The people who worked these jobs had to knock up the door (from bottom to top) of the person who was being awaken.

• People who did this job used to stay awake all night and thus they needed a breath of fresh air to "knock" them awake.

• People who did this job used a bamboo pole to reach up to the windows of those whom they were assigned to wake up. Then they "knocked up" the windows to create a noise to wake them up.

• The name was really a misnomer since the knocker uppers literally ran through the streets screaming "Wake up!" to the citizens who needed an early morning call prior to work.