Joe Vandal
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Idaho Potpourri
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100

This is the most well-known culinary use for the University of Idaho–developed Clearwater Russet potato.

What are McDonald's french fries?

100

Pete promised Kristi he would never take part in this July tradition. 

What is The Running of the Bulls?


100

This river-carved gorge is the deepest in North America.

What is Hells Canyon?

100

Pete wanted this nickname on his Orioles' jersey.


What is "Steve"?

100

This state is home to the PGA headquarters.


What is Texas?

200

True or False, the University of Idaho is older than the State of Idaho?


 

What is True?

200

Name the park in Paris where Pete raced sailboats against a crowd. 


What is Luxembourg Gardens? 

200

Idaho shares this lake with Washington; it’s popular with boaters, vacationers, 

and fans of mispronouncing French.


What is Lake Coeur d’Alene?

200

Proving that baseball is a contact sport, Pete broke this body part while sprinting to first base.


What is his nose?

200

This is the number of “majors” played annually on the men's PGA Tour.

What is Four? (The Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and 

The Open Championship, also known as the British Open.)



300

This candidate for Vice President of the United States graduated from 

the University of Idaho in 1986 with a bachelor's in communications.

Who is Governor Sarah Palin?

300

Name three of the five jobs Pete participated in while in Guatemala.

What are building homes, planting trees, sorting coffee beans, 

picking coffee beans, and sanding wooden spoons.


300

The state fish of Idaho, caught by Pete on the Madison River in Montana.

What is a Cutthroat Trout?

300

Pete has played on all five of these baseball teams.

Who are the Roosevelt Rough Riders, Seattle Rainiers, Mariners, Expos and Orioles.

300

This number of universities in the U.S. currently offer the PGA Golf Management program.

 

What is 16?

400

The University of Idaho shares its city's name with a town in this other state — also the hometown of homesteader Samuel Neff, who clearly wasn’t great at picking original names.  


What is Pennsylvania?





400

This is the first country Pete and Charlotte visited outside of the U.S.


What is Panama? 

400

Before it was a state, Idaho was part of these three other territories — 

none of which had potatoes on the flag.

What are Oregon, Washington, and Dakota Territories?

400

Pete brought back a baseball souvenir from this

country where volcanoes and curveballs both erupt.

What is Nicaragua? 

400

This Idaho golf course is the only one in the world with a movable,
floating green—located on its famous 14th hole.

 

What is the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course?

 

500

This was the percentage of women in the University of Idaho’s first graduating 

class in 1896 — notably higher than the percentage of boy cousins in this photo.

What is 50%? (2 of the 4 graduates)

500

As evidenced by the ripped, blue 8, this card game has traveled around the world with Pete and Charlotte.

What is SkipBo? 

500

Long before Napoleon Dynamite made Idaho cool, 

this Native American tribe called the area home — and still does today.

Who are the Nez Perce?

500

The Roosevelt JV Roughriders beat this team with a walk-off single hit by Pete. 


What is Eastside Catholic high school?


500

Students in the PGA Golf Management program complete multiple internships
called this — which is also what you call someone trying to qualify for the Tour.

What is a playing experience?

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