Big 10 Geography
Sports Hall of Fames
2 Taft 2 Furious
Spring Time
Easter Parade
100
The Hawkeyes' home is this 2-word town
Iowa City
100
It's located on Main Street in Cooperstown, New York
the Baseball Hall of Fame
100
With Taft & Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote, this Democrat easily won the 1912 election
Woodrow Wilson
100
"The Wind in the Willows" opens with Mole doing this with brooms & dusters
spring cleaning
100
Easter is the Christian version of this Jewish feast with which it often coincides
Passover
200
This Illinois city was originally called West Urbana; here's to it, so say we all!
Champaign
200
Originally in Pinehurst, North Carolina, the World Hall of Fame for this sport now makes its home in Florida
golf
200
Though in real life he was between McKinley & Taft, on Mt. Rushmore he's between Jefferson & Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
200
From the Latin, it means "relating to spring"
Vernal
200
Thousands of New Yorkers traditionally stroll down this avenue on Easter showing off their new clothes
Fifth Avenue
300
They're the westernmost & the easternmost Big Ten Schools; the westerners are 5-0 in the football rivalry
Nebraska & Rutgers
300
The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts bears the name of this inventor of the game
James Naismith
300
C.J. is short for this title held by Roger Taney & William Howard Taft
Chief Justice
300
From the Italian, it means "spring" or "served with veggies
primavera
300
The Venerable Bede traced the word Easter to Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of this season
spring
400
Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers
Columbus
400
The statue seen here of Native Americans playing this sport stands near the Hall of Fame of this sport in Sparks, Maryland
Lacrosse
400
Taft set up this bureau in the Interior Dept. to reduce underground explosions, that sort of thing
Bureau of Mines
400
Spring training baseball in Florida is known as this league
the grapefruit league
400
Easter is called this kind of feast because its date can vary between March 22 & April 25
a moveable feast
500
Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836
Madison, Wisconsin
500
1960s inductees into this hall of fame include Don Budge, Alice Marble & Brooke Shields' grandfather Frank Shields
The Tennis Hall of Fame
500
Nicknamed the "Mother of Presidents", this state is the birthplace of 7 presidents, including Taft & McKinley
Ohio
500
Each spring, half a million sandhill ones hang out in Nebraska as they migrate
Cranes
500
Oberammergau, Germany is home to a famous one of these performances that dramatize the Easter story
a Passion play