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Exploring Minneapolis: A Quiz on the City’s History and Culture

This quiz tests your knowledge about various aspects of Minneapolis, including its history, culture, notable figures, and geography. Discover your familiarity with the city by answering questions about its landscape architecture, key historical figures, and unique characteristics.

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1 [93] Foresight, donations and effort by community leaders enabled ________ to create his finest landscape architecture, preserving geographical landmarks and linking them with boulevards and parkways.

2 Who of the following people founded Minneapolis?

3 What is Minneapolis's nickname?

4 Which of the following titles did Minneapolis have?

5 Hennepin County has the second-highest number of ________ per capita in the U.S.

6 What type of subdivision is Minneapolis?

7 What is the postcode of Minneapolis?

8 ________, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, and Walden University are headquartered in Minneapolis and some others including the public four-year Metropolitan State University and the private four-year University of St.

9 When was Minneapolis established?

10 Who of the following is/was the leader of Minneapolis?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley.
  • the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million.
  • the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront.
  • the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction.
  • it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek.
  • during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood.
  • Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours.
  • Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month.
  • Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota.
  • an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House (pictured), a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work.
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