Difficulty Level: Easy-Peasy
1. By what names do Minnesota’s two indigenous peoples refer to themselves?
2. What international waterway opened in 1959 to allow oceangoing ships to reach Duluth harbor?
3. Who was held as a slave at Fort Snelling, and later brought a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
•Soujourner Truth
•Dred Scott
•Nat Turner
4. Minnesota contains more miles of shoreline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. True or False?
5. Name the first woman to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Congress.
6. Which Minnesota governor was the first to appear on the cover of Time magazine?
7. Which classic treats were first introduced in Minnesota?
•Salted Nut Rolls and Baby Ruths
•Mars Bars and Three Musketeers
•Peppermint Patties and the Mars Bar
•Twizzlers and Salted Nut Rolls
8. This Minnesota city is the birthplace of the American bus transportation industry and of Greyhound Lines, Inc.
9. Twin Cities-based Northwest Airlines was the first major airline to adopt this policy.
•A smoking ban on all international flights
•Hiring of male flight attendants
•Providing safety instructions for emergency landings in water
10. Which of these was NOT invented by a Minnesotan?
•water skiis
•the heart monitor
•medical HMOs
•the bundt pan
•the automatic stapler
BONUS QUESTION
Who made the first official hit inside the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome?
•Zoilo Versailles
•Pete Rose
•Rod Carew
•Harmon Killebrew
•Ted Williams
Answers
1)Anishinabe and Dakota 2)The Saint Lawrence Seaway 3)b- Dred Scott. 4)True. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline. 5) Coya Knutson 6)Wendell Anderson, on Aug 13, 1973. 7)b- the Mars Bar (1923) and Three Musketeers (1930) 8)Hibbing. 9)a- NWA banned smoking on its international flights 10)b- the heart monitor. BONUS: b- Pete Rose in an exhibition game between the Twins and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1982.
