Super Quiz

1. What is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and an NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship?

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

2. What sits in Darwin, Minnesota, weighs 17,400 pounds, is 12 feet in diameter and was the invention of Francis A. Johnson?

The world's largest twine ball.

3. The Hormel Company of Austin marketed the first canned ham in 1926.  What did Hormel introduce to the marketplace in 1937?

Spam, of course!

4. Minnesota has one recreational boat per every ___ people, more than any other state.

Six.

5. Who lived on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, MN?

Author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

6. What Minnesota city is the birthplace of the American bus industry?  It sprang from the business acumen of Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson who opened the first bus line (with one bus).  The bus line grew to become Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Hibbing.

7. What famous sportscaster was born in Austin, MN?

John Madden

8. All the seats in the Metrodome are the color blue except one in left center field, which is yellow.  What is the significance of the yellow seat?

The yellow seat commemorates Kirby Puckett's 1991 World Series game-winning homerun.

9. More than 20,000 lady bugs have been released into what Minnesota attraction to allow for a natural means for pest control?

Camp Snoopy

10. What husband and wife real estate team was nominated as "Super Real Estate Agents" in the November issue of Mpls/St Paul Magazine ?

Ann and Gary Kent!!!