Black history
Nicknames included "Minty," and "Moses."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Interstate highways ending in even numbers run in these directions.
What is east/west?
These two women have served as MnDOT Commissioner (along with 8 men who were MnDOT Commissioner and 9 men who were Highway Dept. Commissioner).
Who are Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau?
Before a priest insisted the name be changed, St. Paul was called this, after a fur trader turned bootlegger.
What is Pig's Eye?
This new female-only event at the Beijing Olympics sounds like a hairstyle.
What is women's monobob?
(Big air is new to freestyle skiing for men & women)
This US Supreme Court case was based on the named party and his wife living as enslaved people in free territory at Fort Snelling and other locations.
What is Dred Scott?
The longest bridge in the world (102 miles) is located in this country.
What is China? (Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge)
The number of MnDOT snow plows, expressed as "between ___ and ___ hundred."
What is between 800 and 900?
This MN Capitol grounds resident has his own Twitter account. But does he really tweet?
What is the "Capitol turkey," @mnlegturkey?
The world's largest wood-burning sauna is located in this country.
What is Finland, at the Finnish Naval Academy. Built in 1904, 180 cadets can bathe at once.
This poet and author was, at age 16 in 1943, one of the first Black streetcar operators in San Francisco.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This "longest road in the world" starts in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and ends in Ushuaia, Argentina. It's 15,000 miles long and runs through 14 countries.
What is the Pan-American route?
Before we started calling it "Metro," it was known as this.
What is District 5?
The number of Indian tribal governments in Minnesota.
11 federally recognized.
(4 Dakota Communities, 7 Ojibwe Reservations)
After actor Mark Hamill's real-life car accident, fans speculate that a scene with this ice monster provided an explanation for his facial injuries.
What is the wampa?
After witnessing a collision between a car and a horse-drawn carriage, in 1923 Garrett Morgan (who also created the modern-day gas mask) patented this invention.
What is the traffic signal?
A duck, a sheep, and a rooster were the first passengers to take flight in one of these in France in 1783.
What is a hot-air balloon?
MnDOT's Office of Chief Counsel was established under this MnDOT Commissioner.
Who is Tom Sorel?
Greyhound, the largest intercity bus service in North America, was founded in this Minnesota town in 1914.
What is Hibbing?
The snowiest city in the world, which averages 26 feet of snow per year, is located in this country.
What is Japan?
(Aomori City)
Frederick McKinley Jones, who came to be called the "King of Cool," revolutionized the freight industry with this invention in Hallock, MN, in the 1930s.
What is an air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishables. Went on to cofound Thermo King, still a big name in refrigerated shipping.
By the time residents of this most populous African city reach age 55, they will have spent 6 years stuck in traffic.
What is Lagos, Nigeria? (That's about 30 hours in traffic each week by some reports).
These two MnDOT districts reportedly have 0 traffic cameras. (Metro has 868; D8 has 1)
What are D2 and D7?
This Minnesota city, previously named Red Rock, was renamed in honor of the first US Supreme Court justice to attend law school.
What is Woodbury?
(Levi Woodbury [1789-1851] is 1 of 3 people to have served in all 3 branches of the federal govt and also as a state governor)
Chionophobia is an extreme fear of this.
What is snow?