Early Lorain
The first name of the village that would later become Lorain
Charleston
The first non-European immigrant group to come to Lorain in large numbers
Mexican immigrants
The company that is credited with the invention of the first automobile (HINT: It's still around and popular today!)
Mercedes-Benz (Karl Benz's first modern gas-powered car)
What animal is Indiana Jones afraid of?
Snakes
What scale is an earthquake measured in?
The Richter scale
The reason white settlers began to permanently settle the Lorain area
Trade and/or shipbuilding
African Americans came to Lorain from the American South during the First and Second Great Migrations because
Racism in the South & social acceptance in Lorain, jobs
The true national origin of the fortune cookie
On the Disney Series "The Mandalorian," what is the name of Baby Yoda?
Grogu
What is the definition of the term "Bae?"
Before Anyone Else
One Native American tribe present in the Lorain area before white settlement
Ottawa, Wyandotte, Erie, Iroquois (Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, Seneca, and the Tuscarora)
The decade of the first Lorain International Festival
1960s (1967)
The true percentage of our brains we use on a regular basis
100%
The singer that holds the record for most Grammy nominations
Beyonce
What is the only lowercase letter in the Disney logo?
The "I"
The industry that in the late 1800s made the population of Lorain explode
Steel
The nationality of at least three European immigrant groups that came to Lorain in large numbers in the early 1900s
Answers include: Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Slovakian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Romanian, and Slovenian
If you flip a coin 1000 times, what percentage will result in the tails side facing up?
51% of the time the time the coin will land on the same side it started on (Diaconis).
What show currently holds Netflix's all-time viewership record?
Squidgame
What four colors make up the flag of Brazil?
Green, Yellow, Blue, White
South Lorain was "converted from untamed wilderness to" _______________ for the purpose of ______________. (Sagert p. 6)
housing for the purpose of housing steel workers.
The first metals industry to come to the Lorain area
Brass works (Hayden Brass Works Company, 1881)
The world's largest mountain from base to summit
Mauna Kea (33,500ft, but 13,796ft is submerged). Everest is the highest above sea level (29,035ft)
What movie won the first ever Oscar for Best Animated Film?
Shrek
What are the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone?
Greek, Egyptian demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphics