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100

This inland sea in northern Utah has a greater salinity than the ocean.

What is The Great Salt Lake?

100

This album marked Dylan's switch from acoustic folk to electric rock.

What is Highway 61 Revisited?

100

This newspaper was the first to publish the Pentagon Papers.

What is The New York Times?

100

This Poet Wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

Who is Robert Frost?

100

This 1966 Rolling stones song is known for it's dark mood, and is one of Hal's favorites.

What is paint it black

200

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints began settling in Utah in this year (Closest to the Pin)

When was 1877?

200

This Dylan song reworked the traditional ballad "Lord Randell" into a civil rights anthem.

What is A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall?

200

The Famous 1898 headline, "Remember The Maine", which pushed the U.S. into the war with mexico is an example of what kind of journalism 

What is Yellow journalism?

200

This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Who is Langston Hughes?

200

This newspaper was Hal's first reporting job.

What is the Deseret News?

300

This Utah town was founded as a mining camp and hosted the winter Olympics in 2002.

What is Park City?

300

Before becoming bob Dylan, he briefly performed this stage name.

Who is Elston Gunn?

300

This newspaper famously endorsed a U.S. President for the first time ever in 2016.

What is U.S. Today?

300

This poet is associated with the  beat movement and environmental writing.

Who is Gary Snyder?

300

While living in buffalo, Hal worked in a factory that made this.

What is paint?

400

Founded in Utah, this was the Nation First department store.

What is Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI)?

400

Many of the recorded during Dylan's reclusive period after his accident were later released on this 1975 album.

What is The Basement Tapes?

400

This investigative Journalism nonprofit was founded in 2007 and often partners with major newspapers. 

What is ProPublica?

400

This confessional poet wrote Ariel and died in 1963.

Who is Sylvia Plath?

400

In 1996 Hal covered a weeks long armed standoff in Montana instigated by this anti-government group.

Who are the freemen?

500

This European explorer led the first discovery expedition into Utah. 

Who is Domínguez Escalante?

500

Before becoming Bob Dylan, this was his real full name.

Who is Robert Allen Zimmerman?

500

A 2009 Pulitzer Prize winning investigation from this newspaper exposed systemic failures at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 

What is The Washington Post?

500

This poet was known for "Renascence" and lyrical sonnets.

Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?

500

After arriving at a new school, Hal convinced his teachers and Classmates that his name was this popular catholic name

Who is Michael

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