Superstition
If this black animal crosses your path, it's bad luck.
A black cat.
True or False: In 1895, there were only two cars in the state of Ohio, and they crashed into each other. Then they had none.
True!
This lake is the largest of the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior.
What “spy” hides around the house, reporting back to Santa on who has been naughty and nice?
The Elf on the Shelf.
The town of Seguin was named after Juan Seguin. What famous Texas battle did he fight in?
The battle of the Alamo!
Many buildings skip this number when numbering their floors, due to bad luck.
13th floor
On what oddly coincidental month and day (not year) did both Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
July 4th, 1826. Exactly 50 years to the day from when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
If we drained all the water from the Great Lakes onto the continental 48 states of the US, how many feet deep would the water be? 1, 10, or 25 feet deep?
10 feet deep.
What Christmas-themed ballet premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1892?
The Nutcracker.
True or False: Before the name was changed, the town of Seguin was known as Walnut Springs.
True! The name was changed in 1839 after only 1 year.
Walking under this climbing device is bad luck.
A ladder.
True or False: Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, was present for 4 different presidential assassinations.
False! But amazingly he was present for 3 of them! His father's, President Garfield, and President McKinley.
True or False: Dad's favorite TV show The Deadliest Catch is filmed on boats fishing in the great lakes.
False! They fish in the Bering Sea.
Where was Jesus born? In a prison, in a hotel, in a field, in a stable.
In a stable.
What is the name of the largest park in Seguin?
Max Starcke Park.
True or False: An itchy palm is bad luck and means you will lose money.
False: It's good luck and means you will be getting money soon.
True or False: The same baby fell out a fourth story window onto the same man, twice in the span of a year. Both survived unharmed both times.
True: The man's name was Joseph Figlock and it happened in 1938-1939.
There are 5 great lakes: Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior. How many of them are located entirely in the United States?
1 - Lake Michigan
In the movie "Christmas Vacation", how was Clark going to spend his Christmas bonus?
He was going to buy a swimming pool for the family.
Free Space! You win!
Free Space! You win!
How many years of bad luck do you get for breaking a mirror?
7 years of bad luck.
This famous cosmologist and scientist was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
Stephen Hawking
Which has more surface area, Texas or all the great lakes combined?
Texas! Texas is 268,597 square miles, the great lakes combined are 94,250 square miles.
True or False: In the song The 12 Days of Christmas, you end up getting a total of 365 gifts from your true love, one for every day of the year.
False. But almost! Added up there are 364 gifts.
What was the last name of Dad' grandparents that owned the farm down the road from us?
Herbert and Minnie Schriewer