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In 79 AD, this Italian volcano erupted and buried the city of Pompeii under ash and pumic
What is Mount Vesuvius
Spring officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere during this month.
What is March?
Naperville's downtown is centered around a scenic path on this river.
What is the DuPage River?
Illinois borders this Great Lake, giving Chicago its famous waterfront.
What is Lake Michigan?
What is 5?
In 1979, this country's revolutionaries stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American hostage for 444 days
What is Iran
In baseball, teams travel to Arizona or Florida for this annual warm-up event before the regular season.
What is Spring Training?
Naperville is in this county, which also includes Wheaton, Downers Grove, and Elmhurst.
What is DuPage County?
This Illinois-born president was the 40th to hold the office.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
On the periodic table, this is the atomic number of carbon, the building block of all life.
What is 6?
In 1779, this Founding Father was serving as US Minister to France, helping secure support for the American Revolution
Who is Thomas Jefferson
What is a Slinky?
Commuters from Naperville heading into Chicago take this specific Metra line.
What is the BNSF Railway line?
The world's first McDonald's franchise location opened in 1955 in this Illinois suburb of Chicago.
What is Des Plaines?
Serena Williams won this many Olympic gold medals over the course of her career.
What is 4?
In 1879, Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated this invention for the first time at his Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey
What is the incandescent light bulb
Cherry blossoms, which bloom each spring, are the national flower of this country and celebrated in a festival called Hanami?
What is Japan?
This annual downtown Naperville event, held every Summer, is one of the largest outdoor music festivals in the Chicago suburbs and draws tens of thousands of visiors.
What is Ribfest?
Illinois is the only state in the continental U.S. to border both this river on the West and Lake Michigan on the northeast.
What is the Mississippi River?
In British English, naught often refers to this number.
What is 0?
Who is Jane Byrne?
In mechanics, this law states that the force exerted by a spring is proportional to its displacement: F=kx.
What is Hooke's law?
Naperville was originally settled in 1831 by this person and his brother John after who the city is named.
Who is Joseph Naper?
Before Chicago, this city served as Illinois' state capital, it's also in the same county as Springfield.
What is Vandalia (Capital 1819-1839 then moved to Springfield)?
This is the number of wives Henry VIII had.
What is 6?