Minnesota Trivia: Let’s Play 20 Questions! QUESTIONS 1. In 1933, which infamous American gangster shot up and robbed First National Bank in Brainerd? 2. Three National Hockey League players -- Jamie Langenbrunner, Derek Plante and Corey Millen -- all hail from this northern Minnesota town. 3. During the Roaring ‘20s, which Brainerd area resort hosted big names in Hollywood, including Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Jack Dempsey? 4. Which 1957 U.S. Air Force project launched a balloon into the Earth’s stratosphere from Portsmouth Mine in Crosby? 5. Detroit Lakes is the hometown of which Minnesota Vikings player? 6. What does the name Minnesota mean? 7. Minnesota has over three times more of what kind of animal than it does college students? 8. Trail-a-Sled Inc., the original manufacturer of the Scorpion snowmobile, was founded in which lakes area. 9. In what year did Minnesota become a state? 10. This famous Minnesota-born actress is named after a city in the state. 11. At what big event did President Theodore Roosevelt deliver his famous, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” speech, in 1901? 12. Which American actor set a lap record at Brainerd International Raceway in 1977 during the Uncola Nationals? 13. Minnesota has roughly how
many miles of shoreline? 14. The first intercollegiate game of what sport was played in Minnesota, in 1895? 15. What kind of apples were developed by the University of Minnesota, in 1974? 16. Four-year-old Robert Tufts became the youngest mayor in history when his name was drawn from a hat in 2013 to lead what small Minnesota town? 17. This system of canals, channels and locks opened in 1959, allowing ships from the Atlantic Ocean to reach Duluth, on the western end of Lake Superior. 18. This 1,000-feet-long, suspension-style bridge, built in 1855, was the first in the nation to span the Mississippi River. 19. Why did Detroit change its name to Detroit Lakes in 1926? 20. What Minnesota community is named after Alexander Kinkead, an early settler and first Postmaster of the town site he helped establish in 1858? ANSWERS 1. Baby Face Nelson (a.k.a. Lester Joseph Gillis). 2. Cloquet. 3. Breezy Point Resort. Musicians Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Count Bassie also headlined there. 4. Manhigh II. The Manhigh project launched three balloons in 1957 and 1958 to investigate human factors of space flight. The first was launched from South St. Paul and the third from Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. 5. Adam Thielen. 6. “Cloudy water” or “sky-tinted water,” from the Dakota words “minni,” meaning water, and
“sotah,” meaning sky-tinted or cloudy. The name was first given to the Minnesota River. 7. White-tailed deer. There are an estimated 1.5 million white-tailed deer in the state, and 434,000 students. 8. Crosby. The company changed its name to Scorpion, Inc. in 1969 and was bought by Arctic Enterprises in 1978. 9. 1858 10. Winona Ryder. 11. The Minnesota State Fair. 12. Paul Newman. Newman subsequently won races at BIR in 1978, ‘79 and ‘82. 13. 90,000 -- more than
California, Florida and Hawaii combined. 14. Basketball. 15. Honeycrisp. The apples have generated millions in patent royalties for the university. 16. Dorset. 17. The St. Lawrence Seaway. 18. The Hennepin Bridge. It was used by people traveling to Nicollette Island in Minneapolis and operated for 20 years before another bridge essentially replaced it. 19. Postal mixups were happening between there and Detroit, Michigan. 20. Alexandria
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