Random Bits of Knowledge That I Know
This original Marquette establishment was founded in 1900 and has been owned by the same family ever since.
What is Getz's Clothiers?
This popular winter hat brand was founded in the Upper Peninsula.
What is Stormy Kromer?
Founded in the Indus River Valley, this place is considered to be the first formal human civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the city where Ryan was born.
What is Milwaukee?
This team beat Lionel Messi's Argentina to win the 2014 World Cup.
Who is Germany?
This is the person Alexander Hamilton had an affair with while his wife was away with their children.
Who is Maria Reynolds?
This was the only other freighter on Lake Superior the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.
What is the Arthur M. Anderson?
This man famously shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Who is Aaron Burr?
What is Wendy's and Border Grill?
This team (unfortunately) won the English domestic treble last year. The first team to achieve this feat since Manchester United in 1999.
This Russian holy man had a song created after him, made famous by the Just Dance video game franchise.
Who is Grigori Rasputin?
The newspaper, The Iron Ore, which was sued by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1913, was based out of this UP town.
What is Ishpeming?
This was the first National Park established in the world.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This was Ryan's first major in college before changing it to Education.
What is Business Management?
This player is Manchester United's top goal scorer.
Who is Wayne Rooney?
While it is effective in water-proofing fabrics, this clothing technology takes even longer to decompose in landfills than most plastics.
Thomas Richardson was convicted for the murder of his wife Juanita, at this famous UP landmark.
What is Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore?
It was on this holiday in 1914, British and German soldiers ceasefired and played a game of soccer against one another to celebrate the holiday away from family.
What is Christmas?
This was the occupation of Ryan's Great Uncle, Great Grandfather, Second Cousin, and a whole slew of other relatives throughout their lives.
What is a commercial fisherman?
This player came off the bench to score the winning goal against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final, thus securing the domestic treble for the club.
Who is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? (I love him)
Inspired by the film Anatomy of a Murder, this film is nominated for Best Picture at this year's Oscars.
What is Anatomy of a Fall?
The fare to cross the Mackinac Bridge is $4.00 today. However, this was the fare to cross when the bridge opened in 1957.
What is $3.75?
This president's assassination has famously been the center of many conspiracy theories for decades.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Ryan slow-danced with a girl for the first time at this place.
What is the Bay Cliff Auditorium?
Despite a slow start to life at Old Trafford, this 21-year-old lad from Denmark has now scored in four games in a row for Manchester United.
Who is Rasmus Hojlund?