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100
The state bird.
What is a Loon?
100
This quarterback started and ended his career with the Vikings and was the first Viking to be inducted into the Hall-of-Fame.
Who is Fran Tarkenton?
100
The family on this show lived in Mayfield. The father was Ward, the mother was June, and one brother was Wally.
What is Leave it to Beaver?
100
The line "Here's looking at you, kid!" comes from this film.
What is Casablanca?
100
The Democratic party was first associated with this symbol in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast.
What is a donkey?
200
The third largest city in Minnesota.
What is Rochester?
200
This team became the Minnesota Twins in 1961.
Who are the Washington Senators?
200
He was the sheriff in popular Western TV show that ran from 1955 to 1975. His sidekick was Chester, and friends Miss Kitty and Doc Adams.
Who is Mat Dillon?
200
The line "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" comes from this film.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
200
The US politician who made claims of communist infiltration in the 1950s.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
300
The Mississippi River begins its journey from this lake.
What is Lake Itasca?
300
The Vikings Defense had this nick name.
Who are the Purple People Eaters?
300
This series, which began in the late 1950s, continued its successful depiction of courtroom scenes well into the 1960s. Raymond Burr played its lead character.
What is Perry Mason?
300
This southern belle was hopelessly in love with a character named Ashley, much to the consternation of her husband, who took pride in not being a southern gentlemen. Towards the end of the movie she says, "Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day."
Who is Scarlett O'Hara?
300
He was the president who enacted the New Deal, a series of federal programs, including, the WPA and Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and shortly thereafter in response to the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
400
Before European settlement of North America, Minnesota was populated by members of this tribe.
Who are the Dakota?
400
This Twin player won the AL batting title and the Rookie of the Year Award in 1964.
Who is Tony Oliva?
400
He was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted his own television program from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large audience of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music."
Who is Lawrence Welk?
400
Set in Austria in 1938, this movie tells the true story of a family's escape from the Nazis.
What is The Sound of Music?
400
This president played "The Gipper" in the 1940 film "Knute Rockne, All American."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul.
What is Pig's Eye?
500
The year of the “Miracle On Ice” Olympic hockey game between the U.S.A. and Russia that is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. 13 of the 20 players were born in Minnesota and most of those played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, under Head Coach Herb Brooks.
What is 1980?
500
Premiering in 1961, this series told the story of a doctor working in a fictional large metropolitan hospital while trying to learn his profession, deal with his patients' problems and earn the respect of the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie. The huge success of the show inspired the launch of numerous other television medical dramas.
What is Dr. Kildare?
500
This actor played the title role in a crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre.
Who is Marlon Brando?
500
The future senator that scored the only touchdown for Harvard when they played Yale in 1955. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and was the fourth-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history, having served there for almost 47 years. He died in 2009.
Who is Edward M. Kennedy?
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