Here are the answers to Throwback Thursday #64 Rockhound Spelling Test.  How’d you do?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

There were 20 words offered. If you spelled 15 right you are doing right well. Seventeen right puts you in the professional class, and 19 or 20 right means you can sit right next to Mr. Dana and you inherit the editorship of this fine bulletin. Everyone over 17 is required to write an article for this bulletin! Authority is a collection of mineral books and the Lapidary Journal.

1. chrysocolla
2. amethyst
3. iridescent
4. invertebrate
5. fluorite
6. turquoise
7. rhodochrosite
8. brachiopod
9. citrine
10. psilomelane
11. baculite
12. aventurine
13. baroque
14. variscite
15. staurolite
16. chlorastrolite
17. thomsonite
18. dolomite
19. jaspilite
20. rhyolite