QUESTION 1. The moon is in NEW phase during a solar eclipse, always between Earth and the sun during the new-moon phase. That's why it presents a dark face to Earth each month. An eclipse occurs more rarely. When the moon's orbital path puts it in a precise position to block the sun for a particular area of Earth.
QUESTION 2. An annular eclipse is a solar eclipse with the sun's outer rim exposed. Distance varies between Earth and moon and between moon and sun. The apparent size of the sun's disk may be slightly greater than that of the moon's disk creating a ring of fire around the dark moon.
QUESTION 3. It's unsafe to look at a solar eclipse with the naked eye instead of a special filter.
QUESTION 4. All. Ancients saw eclipses as expressing nature's distress at earthly calamities. Greeks said darkness overshadowed Earth marking the deaths of Prometheus, Atreus, Hercules, Aesculapius and Alexander the Great. Rome said Earth was shrouded by darkness at the deaths of Romulus and Julius Caesar.
QUESTION 5. Neither. A comet, not an eclipse, presaged 1066's Norman Conquest. No heavenly portents associated with 1944's Allied invasion of Normandy.
QUESTION 6. Which traditional culture considers eclipses a good thing? All. Northern peoples such as Eskimos, Tlingits and Aleuts regard total solar eclipses as signs of divine providence, sun and moon checking on Earth's well-being. India considers it dangerous to venture outside during an eclipse. Ancient China feared a dragon was devouring the sun.
***** ONE AND ONLY
QUESTION 1. Only metal that's liquid at room temperature: Mercury.
QUESTION 2. Only nun to win the Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Theresa 1979.
QUESTION 3. "The Case of the Terrified Typist" was the only case Perry Mason ever lost.
QUESTION 4. Only Summer Olympics host country not winning a gold medal: Canada (Montreal 1976)
QUESTION 5. Only woman to appear 10 times on Time magazine's cover: the Virgin Mary.
QUESTION 6. Upset was the only horse to beat Man O' War.
QUESTION 7. Only jockey to win two triple crowns: Eddie Arcaro (Whirlaway and Citation)
8. Redd Foxx only show-biz entertainer to attend Elvis Presley's wedding.
9. Only gem derived from vegetation: amber.
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