Ancestors
Mom
Dad
Siblings
Miscellaneous
100
In 1847 Bernard and Elizabeth Twenter came to the US. They were looking forward to seeing the oranges that grew wild in Missouri. This is what they found the oranges to be.
What is a hedge ball?
100
This is Mom's first name on her birth certificate.
What is Annette?
100
Dad, Rog and Grandma were tending cows when Rog was bitten on his foot by a water moccasin. This is how the doctor told them to treat him.
What is kill a chicken and put his foot in it?
100
This is what Regina purchased at Hedwig's estate sale for $1.50
A) candy dish
B) shoe polish
C) set of towels
D) the flipping dog
What is shoe polish?
100
This is how Mom and Dad made a little extra cash in their first years of marriage.
A) Painted houses
B) Took Neckermans for doctors appointments
C) Caught and sold rabbits
D) Picked and sold gooseberries
What is caught and sold rabbits.
200
Mom's Great Grandfather Henry Lammers came from Germany in 1842 to St Louis. This is where he slept for some time when he first arrived.
A) on a park bench
B) on a pool table
C) on a church pew
D) under the arch
What is on a pool table in a pool hall?
200
In the early 1940's the pantry in Mom's childhood home was converted into this.
What is a bathroom?
200
Dad had 4 places of residence in his pre-married life.
Place them in chronological order -
Martin farm, Richie place, Rentel farm, banks of the Clear Creek.
What is
1.Richie place
2.Rentel farm (String Town)
3.Martin farm down the driveway from our home place (he was 3 at this farm)
4.banks of the Clear Creek?
200
This is why Dad was not at the hospital when Greg was born.
A) he was sick
B) there was a flu epidemic
C) he had to stay home with the other kids
D) the hogs got out
What was a flu epidemic was happening?
200
This is when St John the Baptist Church was destroyed by a tornado.
A) 1950
B) 1955
C) 1960
D) The day the music died.
What is May 28, 1955?
The cost of the old church was $20,000.
The cost of the new church was $156,000.
300
The Larm name came into existence in the late 1800's. What was it before that?
A) Lerm
B) Farm
C) Larmme
D) Alarm
What is Lerm?
300
In Mom's sophomore year, she "noticed a boy across the room with a smile that stole my heart", in this class period.
A) Study Hall
B) Math
C) Music
D) Welding
What is Study Hall?
300
This is what happened to the cigarettes Dad won at the church picnic.
A) Rog smoked all of them.
B) They got ruined in a rain storm.
C) They were eaten by mice.
D) He traded them for a half of a stick of Big Red
What is they were eaten by mice?
300
This is the number of points on Eugene's 2023 buck as recorded by the Missouri Big Buck Club.
(+/- 2)
Eugene - what is the correct number?
300
Parishioners used to pay rent for their church pew. This is what Grandpa Twenter paid in 1936.
A) $5
B) $10
C) $50
D) 5 chickens
What is $10.
400
Mom's Great Grandfather Henry Lammers ran this business on the banks of the Lamine River near the current location of Bryan Bottom Bridge.
A) Gravel Dredging
B) Ferry
C) Grinding Mill
D) Fishing Guide
What is a ferry business?
400
At age 1 year old, this is the ailment that Mom almost died from.
200 BONUS POINTS - This was the treatment.
What is pneumonia?
What is being put in a cold room?
400
Dad took pride in begin the fastest runner in his class. However, Elwood beat him in this race.
A) sack race
B) three-legged race
C) run sheep run
D) Boston marathon
What is a sack race?
400
This did NOT happen in 1954.
A) Karen was born
B) Jim and Steve got twin calves from the Neckermans
C) Water system was added to the house
D) Mom and Dad purchased their first TV.
What is Jim and Steve got twin calves from the Neckermans. (This happened in 1957)
400
This was the price of a Chicken Fried Steak Dinner at the PG Cafe many years ago.
A) 99 cents
B) $1.35
C) $2.10
D) Your right arm and left leg
What is $1.35
500
We knew her as Hedwig. This is her name as recorded on her baptismal certificate dated December 21, 1907.
A) Anna
B) Noelle
C) Hedwig
D) Rumpelstiltskin
What is Anna Kath Hedwig Larm?
500
This is how Mom, as a child, earned money to spend at the church picnic.
A) gathering eggs
B) dusting the house
C) feeding the horses
D) killing flies
What is killing flies?
500
Dad was reprimanded on Samar Island by his commanding officer for this.
A) missing curfew
B) giving cigarettes to a Japanese POW
C) taking his buddy's beer
D) teaching a monkey to fetch the Commanding Officers clipboard
What is he gave cigarettes to a Japanese POW?
500
Match the ailment with the correct sibling. 100 points for each correct match.
A) Bike accident resulted in broken front teeth
B) Injured from wild cow milking
C) When a baby, had an unusual kidney problem
D) Got spray paint in their eyes
E) Was so sick, too weak to climb stairs even, at age 4. Cured by a green scapular from Fr Ignatius.
F) As a baby was hospitalized with bronchitis
A - Karen D - Steve
B - Eugene E - Tom
C- Jim F - Greg
500
The Twenter family has had a lot of twins.
Grandpa Twenter had twin sisters in 1895.
Barb had twin girls in 1974
Kevin Lammers had twins (boy and girl) in 2001
Barry had twin boys in 2018.
This is who had the latest set of twins.
Who is Mia Bell McNamee, Barb's granddaughter?
Harper Bell and Ellie Catherine, born November 18, 2025.