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100
This long-time Calculus teacher and tennis coach is the most recent Covington coach to be awarded the "Coach of the Year" award from IHSAA
Who is Terry Field?
100
What side of the square is being shown?
What is the South Side
100
This event started in 1991 with a partnership between the CBA and Coffing Brothers Orchard.
What is the Apple Fest?
100
This group has brought many things to our town, including, but not limited to, the swimming pool (1980) and the school kindergarten (1950). Today you'll find them replanting a majority of the flowers downtown
Who are the Coffeenians
100
This alumni graduated in 1921. Went on to serve in the Marine Corps, earning the rank of General and receiving the Medal of Honor for WWII.
Who is David M Shoup?
100
Where is the only Indiana landmark that has a natural sandstone arch.
Where is Portland Arch
200
What year did the complex have its inaugural football game?
1976
200
What was the name of this building?
What is the Mayer Faust & Frey Building?
200
This company built a cellophane plant in Warren County in 1956, bringing many new residents from places like Iowa and North Carolina to the area.
What is Olin Matheson
200
This beloved educator started his career at the nearby Rabb schoolhouse before transferring to Covington around 1971. He had a shorter tenure in Covington's schools, but is credited with producing great students at Rabb School.
Who is Frank Coleman?
200
This graduate of Franklin College pioneered Covington High School’s first volleyball team, promoted equality in girls sports, compiled a 207–85 coaching record, and was later inducted into both the Indiana Coaches’ Girls Sports Association Volleyball Hall of Fame and the Franklin College Wall of Fame.
Who is Georgeanne Bodine Ford
200
The fight plane, "Big Mac" was brought to the VFW in the 1950's from what air base?
What is the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
300
When the voting was counted for the new school mascot, what came in second place behind the favored "Trojans"(1927)
What is the "Orioles"?
300
The Fountain County Courthouse has been totally razed and rebuilt multiple times. The current building is what rendition?
What is the fourth?
Log style 1827
Small Brick 1829
Gothic Victorian 1860
Art Deco 1936
300
In 1846, this skirmish or battle took place in Fountain County. Covington and this neighboring city fought over water rights along the Wabash & Erie Canal at Lock 35.
Who is Attica?
300
Local Celebrity Zoomed IN
Who is Bob Shelby
300
This award winner is a distinguished designer and racing expert born in Covington, IN. He serves as the Chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Board of Directors and is Chief Design Officer at GE HealthCare. The town of Covington celebrated "____" on June 6, 2025
Who is Chuck Jones
300
This famous mural artist painted in the style of Thomas Hart Benton and did the two murals that flank the entry to the Fountain County Courthouse. As well as: Washington D.C. Post Office; Texas State Centennial Mural; Elks National Memorial, Chicago; U.S. Supreme Court, New York; Stewart Center, Purdue Univ; Matson Cruise Lines menu Covers, etc.
Who is Eugene Savage
400
Who are the two Indiana All-Stars Basketball players for Covington?
Who is Brenda Summers (1982) and Dale White (1978)
400
The bell in this church was salvaged from where?
What is a canal boat
400
This Basketball team, with a future congressman on the team, went to Semi-state falling to Rushville by 1 point. What year was this team?
What is 1944-1945
400
This record holder is in the Guinness World Record book for the longest tenured teacher- 71 years
Who is Olive Coffeen
400
This 1971 graduate of Covington High School went on to earn multiple advanced degrees, serve as superintendent of Southwest Parke Community Schools from 2004–2016, and in 2016 had the Wellness for Life Clinic renamed in his honor
Who is Leonard R. Orr II?
400
In 1866 there was a $5 dollar ($103.84 in 2026) fine for depositing what in the street?
What is ashes?
500
Who is the ball boy in this photo of the Lucky 7?
Who is Al Harden?
500
The bricks used to make the concession stand at the Trojan Complex originally came from this razed building
What is the Presbyterian Church?
500
The Covington City Park hosted this event from 1860-1952
What is the county fair
500
This former Covington Teacher served on the Republican National Chairman in 1944, US representative under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, and on several committees until 1970.
Who is Cecil Murray Harden?
500
This Alumni Created the first commercial bar code and the machine to read it with. On June 6, 1974 at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio the first item ever scanned was a tin of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum. The tin and the receipt are on display in the Smithsonian Institution.
Who is Bob Lyons?
500
What was the final year the Covington Friend was published?
When is 1983
600
This alumnus co-authored four patents in 1977, creating a new polymer that could absorb up to 1000 times its weight in water. In use worldwide, more than 6 billion pounds a year of absorbent material is incorporated into disposable diapers, bandages, and absorbent pads.
Who is Bill Doan