Famous People
This famous rockstar got his start in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
Who is Prince?
This is the largest of the Great Lakes and the site of many Minnesotan shipwrecks.
What is Lake Superior?
Elk River got its name from an explorer seeing a herd of these critters drinking from a nearby stream.
What are Elk?
This is the Minnesota state fruit.
What is the honeycrisp apple?
This continent is home to countries like China, Japan, and The Philippines.
What is Asia?
This folk singer moved to New York after starting his career in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
Who is Bob Dylan?
This famous Minnesotan sculpture shows a dining utensil balancing a fruit on its end.
What is the Cherry on the Spoon (or Spoonbridge & Cherry)?
This structure was built in 1920 to help prevent buildings in Downtown Elk River from burning down.
What is the Elk River Water Tower?
This is the Minnesota state butterfly.
What is the Monarch butterfly?
For one day, there was a twelve pack of soda stashed in this classroom. This was the type of soda in this twelve-pack.
What is Diet Coke Lime?
This current governor of Minnesota was the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2024 election.
Who is Tim Walz?
This is the famous Twin Cities military fort was created as an early way for Europeans to settle permanently in a foreign land.
What is Fort Snelling?
This is the name of the explorer who gave "Elk River" its name.
Who is Zebulon Pike?
This is the Minnesota state fish.
What is the Walleye?
This is what it is called when light bends as it enters a new substance.
What is refraction?
This star actress of The Wizard of Oz was born in Grand Rapids, MN.
Who is Judy Garland?
This farm was one of the first major agricultural businesses in Minnesota. It can be seen now off Highway 10 in Elk River.
What is Oliver Kelley Farm?
During the mid-1900s, Elk River became the first rural town to have one of these energy-producing facilities.
What is a Nuclear Power Plant?
This is the Minnesota state flower.
What is the pink-and-white Lady's Slipper?
This is the closest national holiday to today's date.
What is Veterans Day?
This Minnesotan author wrote about life as a wealthy person in the 1920s in his famous book The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Minnesota Capitol has a golden statue featuring many of these animals that you can only see close-up by taking the stairs to the roof.
What are horses?
This is the three-letter organization that Mr. Tuckey belongs to. They work to preserve the history and heritage of Elk River.
What is the HPC?
This is the name of the official Minnesota state song.
What is Hail! Minnesota?
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?