1. According to the manufacturer, how long is a stretched-out regular Slinky? (Within 2 feet)
2. How many US states have official mottoes not in English or Latin. (5 points) Name them. (Points given proportionally)
3. The United States Senate restaurant serves bean soup every day it is open, and has for decades. What kind of beans are used?
4. What food product was first introduced to the public at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904?
5. What is the oldest college in Illinois? (5 points) Within 5 years, when did it open? (5 points)
6. Who’s oldest, Aunt Jemima, Better Crocker, or the Morton Salt girl? (5 points for the right name, 5 points for the right year, within 5)
7. What was the first female-founded company to be listed on Fortune magazine’s 500 list?
8. ‘Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her father 40 whacks, When she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41.” But was she found Guilty at her trial?
9. Oddly enough, this state has the longest official name of any of the 50 states. 5 points for the common name, and 5 points for the official name.
10. Every year, Gilroy, California hosts a festival dedicated to the “Stinking Rose.” What is the “Stinking Rose”?
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Both the Slinky and puffed rice questions are on AP. I'll link to the Slinky question later today. And, of course, since the answers appeared on AP, you are most certainly right.
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2) I know that California's is "Eureka" and I believe Minnesota is a French name meaning "Star of the North", Hawaii's I know for sure is in Hawaiian (No I do not know what it is LOL), and some state uses Spanish for silver and gold (I am trying this by memory).
I think there are two more at least, but I am clueless as to what it is. One Native American motto and then another in a romance language.
Re #4, which I answered from memory: "Many Americans ate their first ice cream cone in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." (W) I guess that's not the same as "first introduced to the public?"
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Professor, there was a recipe for ice cream cones in an 1890s cook book, and in 1903, Italo Marcioni (Spelling this from memory) of New York applied for a patent for a machine to make ice cream cones. Further, waffle ice cream "boats" were made in Germany from at least the 1820s. (A great many Germans came to the US in the late 1800s.) Like the hot dog, which H.L. Menken (I think) remembers eating as a child in the 1870s, some stories will always be remembered as part of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
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Actually The Morton salt girl came way after the Company so the right answer would be Aunt Jemima. The Morton Salt cie was founded in 1848 the girl appeared around 1914 I think.
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Aunt Jemima has a rich history spanning over 115 years. Read on to learn more about important milestones in the fascinating history of the Aunt Jemima brand.
1889 Chris Rutt and Charles Underwood of the Pearl Milling Company developed Aunt Jemima, the first ready mix.
1890 R.T. Davis purchased the struggling Aunt Jemima Manufacturing Company. He then brought the Aunt Jemima character to life when he hired Nancy Green as his spokeswoman.
1914 The image of Aunt Jemima was so popular that the company was renamed the Aunt Jemima Mills Company.
See my answer on the College above.
