Very Minnesotan Trivia

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?

20. Alexandria Detroit, Michigan. happening between there and 19. Postal mixups were replaced it. another bridge essentially and operated for 20 years before

Nicollette Island in Minneapolis was used by people traveling to 18. The Hennepin Bridge. It 17. The St. Lawrence Seaway. 16. Dorset. royalties for the university. have generated millions in patent 15. Honeycrisp. The apples 14. Basketball. combined.

California, Florida and Hawaii 13. 90,000 -- more than 1978, ‘79 and ‘82. subsequently won races at BIR in 12. Paul Newman. Newman 11. The Minnesota State Fair. 10. Winona Ryder. 9. 1858 Enterprises in 1978. 1969 and was bought by Arctic its name to Scorpion, Inc. in 8. Crosby. The company changed students. deer in the state, and 434,000 an estimated 1.5 million white-tailed 7. White-tailed deer. There are the Minnesota River. cloudy. The name was first given to “sotah,” meaning sky-tinted or “minni,” meaning water, and water,” from the Dakota words 6. “Cloudy water” or “sky-tinted 5. Adam Thielen.

Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. the third from Holloman Air Force launched from South St. Paul and factors of space flight. The first was 1957 and 1958 to investigate human project launched three balloons in 4. Manhigh II. The Manhigh

Count Bassie also headlined there.

Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and 3. Breezy Point Resort. Musicians 2. Cloquet. (a.k.a. Lester Joseph Gillis). 1. Baby Face Nelson

ANSWERS

A Very Minnesotan Crossword Puzzle Answers

Answers from puzzle on page 33

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1 Jay Cooke 2 Stick 7 Iron Range 10 Paddle 11 Zebulon Pike 13 Bloody Mary 15 Saint Paul 19 Gray 20 Nevis 23 Meat raffle 24 Kensington Runestone 26 Otter Tail 27 Sidecar 29 Hockey 32 Water skiing 35 Walker 36 Saint Louis 39 You 40 Know 44 Golden 47 Voyageurs 48 Superior 49 Lutefisk 51 Rutabaga 55 Mpls 58 Walleye 59 Perham 60 Red 61 L’Etoile du Nord 66 Babe The Blue Ox 67 Split Rock Lighthouse 69 Hotdish 70 Quilt 71 Squatching 72 Interesting 73 Winnibigoshish 74 Enger Tower

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1 Jack Lemmon 3 Hibbing 4 Boundary Waters 5 Mayo Clinic 6 Bemidji 8 Lady Slipper 9 Wild rice 12 Sailboat 14 Akeley 16 Wisconsin 17 Big Ole 18 Eagle Mountain 21 Sugarloaf Cove 22 Prince 25 Ope 28 Lakes 30 Nice 31 Miles 33 Remote Start 34 Sauk Centre 37 Lake Itasca 38 Aerial Lift Bridge 41 Bars 42 Woodchipper 43 Northwest Angle 44 Gooseberry Falls 45 Duluth 46 Nine 50 Lake 52 Thee 53 Boat 54 Uff da 56 Flannel 57 Mud 59 Pop 62 Target 63 Potlucks 64 Skol 65 Mosquito 68 Loon

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