Agriculture
State Symbols
J.J. Hill
Plague
Miscellaneous
100
This was called the King of crops in early MN agriculture.
What is wheat?
100
Minnesota's state bird.
What is the common loon?
100
James J. Hill's primary business that extended to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the railroad?
100
A name that is often used interchangeably with "grasshopper".
What is locust?
100
The northernmost city for navigation on the Mississippi River.
What is St. Paul?
200
Inventor of the steel plow.
Who was John Deere?
200
Minnesota's state flower.
What is the Showy Lady-slipper?
200
Another name for a "mud clerk", Hill's first job after arriving in St. Paul.
What is a shipping clerk?
200
People were paid this much money if they brought in a bushel of grasshoppers.
What is one dollar?
200
An ox wears this when it is attached to a plow.
What is a yoke?
300
These people raised the first crops of wheat in what would become MN.
Who were the soldiers at Ft. Snelling?
300
Minnesota's state butterfly.
What is the Monarch butterfly?
300
Number of bathrooms in Hill's mansion.
What is 13?
300
The winter before the grasshopper plague, this killed many people and animals in Minnesota.
What is a blizzard?
300
This highly flammable material caused some explosions in the mills.
What is flour dust?
400
The soil loses these after awhile and crops don't grow as well.
What are nutrients?
400
Minnesota's state grain.
What is wild rice?
400
Hill's future wife, Mary, attended a special kind of school to help her learn the social graces.
What is finishing school?
400
Governor John Pillsbury ordered this for April 26, 1877, in hopes of getting rid of the grasshoppers.
What is a day of prayer and fasting?
400
Farmers must separate the wheat from the . . .
What is the chaff?
500
Farms that are thousands of acres in size.
What are Bonanza farms?
500
Minnesota's state mushroom.
What is the morel?
500
This is what happens when there is only one company providing a service, such as the railroad.
What is a monopoly?
500
What one word describes the Rocky Mountain locust today?
What is extinct?
500
A person who gives away their money to various causes or institutions.
What is a philanthropist?
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