Marble Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What type of rock is marble?
A metamorphic rock
2. Where does the word "marble" derive from?
Ancient Greek
3. What color is creole marble?
White and blue/black
4. Where can carrara marble be found?
Italy
5. Which city was recorded in the 2013 Guinness Book of Records as having the world's highest concentration of white marble buildings?
Ashgabat
6. Which countries were the leaders of marble production in 1998?
Italy, China, Spain and India
7. Where is Marble Falls located?
Texas
8. What marble variety was used to clad the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland?
Etowah marble
9. When was the Vermont Marble Company founded?
1880