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100

This famous Christmas song has 137,000 recorded versions. 

Silent Night

100

This former 4th District Chief Judge is now the Minneapolis Community Safety Commissioner

Todd Barnette

100

This 21-story Art Deco masterpiece has a Memorial Hall that features deep blue Belgian marble that actually looks black.

Ramsey County Courthouse

100

This Star Tribune reporter has no qualms about calling us on the weekend.

Paul Walsh

100

According to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling, it is not against the law for women to do this in public.

Go topless/show their breasts

200

Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" references this football player -- who also ended up in court.

O. J. Simpson

200

This judge made headlines when he decided to revoke parolees' voting rights -- against the will of the Minnesota Legislature.

Judge Quinn

200

This courthouse is somewhat mazelike and, as a result, has had several defendants escape over the years.

Hennepin County Courthouse

200

This former WCCO reporter made headlines when she joined Alpha News.

Liz Collin

200

If you need a ride someplace, you better not do this in Minnesota.

Hitchhiking
(Minnesota statute 169.22 )

300

In "Up on the Rooftop," what kind of doll is Santa asked to bring little Nell?

One that laughs, cries, and opens and shuts its eyes.

300

This now-retired judge was often referred to as the "Judge Judy" of the 10th District.

Judge Hoffman

300

This Minnesota city is home to the oldest courthouse in the state.

Stillwater

300

Before becoming a columnist, this longtime Star Tribune reporter covered Hennepin County District Court as well as the state's appellate courts. 

Rochelle Olson

300

Prior to 2015, it was illegal to play this game in a nursing home more than twice a week.

Bingo

400

In this dreadfully sad holiday song, a little boy is trying to buy these for his dying mother.

Shoes

400

The U.S. Supreme Court Justice who authored the Roe v. Wade opinion -- and grew up in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul.

Harry Blackmun

400

You might think Koochaching County Courthouse in International Falls is the most northern courthouse in Minnesota, but that honor actually goes to this county.

Roseau

400

This St. Cloud Times reporter went to Yale.

Corey Schmidt

400

Although actors Haley Joel Osment and Shia LaBeouf were famously arrested for this in other states, it's not illegal in Minnesota.

Public drunkenness

500

In "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," these eight flying cervids are listed as Rudolph's sleigh-pulling compatriots.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid Donner, Blitzen

500

This U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, who authored the United States v. Nixon opinion that allowed the Watergate investigation to move forward, was originally from Minnesota. 

Warren Burger

500

While most Minnesota courthouses are built in the Beaux Arts, Romanesque Revival, Neoclassical, and Renaissance Revival traditions, this county decided to go with "Corporate International" style when it built its new courthouse in 1963.

Carver County

500

This longtime MPR reporter and host resigned when his girlfriend ran for Lt. Governor (she won & they got married). 

Tom Webber

500

The town of Wayland, Minn. used to charge folks 3 cents a day if they wanted to keep this on Main Street.

A cow