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Before Milwaukee became one unified city in 1846, three separate settlements competed for control of the growing community. Name all three.
What are Juneautown, Kilbourntown, and Walker's Point?
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County set this fundraising goal for its 2026 Community Campaign.
What is $58 million?
Before becoming famous for her work on the theory of radioactivity, Marie Curie was the first woman to win this prestigious international award.
What is the Nobel Prize?
There is a species of jellyfish that can revert from its adult stage back to an earlier life stage, potentially repeating its life cycle. What is it commonly called?
What is the immortal jellyfish?
Before becoming the world's most popular search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally called their search engine this when they developed it at Stanford in 1996.
What is BackRub?
In the early 1860s, Milwaukee became the world's largest shipper of this agricultural commodity, helping establish its reputation as a major commercial hub.
What is Wheat?
Since the launch of United Way's employment initiative, participants have recovered 214 of these documents, which can be essential for getting to work and rebuilding independence.
What are driver's licenses?
The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed and buried following the eruption of this volcano in 79 AD.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
The Eiffel Tower can grow several inches taller during the summer because of this scientific process.
What is thermal expansion?
In 1919, Boston experienced a bizarre disaster when a massive storage tank burst, releasing more than two million gallons of this sticky substance into the streets.
What is molasses?
In 1873, Reverend J.W. Carhart built The Spark, an early steam-powered automobile that reached 5 mph. In what Wisconsin city did he create it?
What is Racine?
Since its employment initiative began in 2023, United Way has helped remove this many arrest records, plus secured 11 pardons.
What is 204 arrest records?
Despite being the world's largest island, this landmass is not considered a continent.
What is Greenland?
This Australian animal produces droppings shaped like cubes.
What is a wombat?
On June 26, 1974, this everyday grocery product became the first item ever scanned using a Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode.
What is Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum?
In 19th-century Milwaukee, this notorious, stout and moon-faced bigamist became one of the characters featured in Milwaukee Mayhem.
Who was Jiggs Perry?
At its December 2025 campaign closing event, United Way announced it had met its goal of ending family homelessness across its four-county region. How much money did the 2025 Community Campaign raise?
What was $58,670,450?
The chemical symbol for this precious metal comes from the Latin word aurum.
What is gold?
This European river passes through or along the borders of 10 countries and four national capitals.
What is the Danube?
The world's first known vending machine, invented nearly 2,000 years ago, was designed to dispense this substance in ancient Egyptian temples.
What is holy water?
In 1892, a devastating fire struck Milwaukee's Irish Third Ward. Approximately how many city blocks were destroyed, and how many residents were left homeless?
Sixteen blocks were destroyed, and approximately 2,000 residents were left homeless.
In 1909, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County began under this original name.
What was Milwaukee's Central Council of Philanthropies?
This famous psychological experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, tested how far ordinary people would go when instructed by an authority figure to administer what they believed were painful electric shocks.
What is the Milgram obedience experiment?
In 1932, Australian soldiers were deployed with machine guns in an unsuccessful campaign against these flightless birds.
What are emus?
The iconic sound of a lightsaber powering up in the original Star Wars films was created using a combination of a television set's interference and this everyday electrical device.
What is a film projector motor?