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Exploring Minnesota: A Quiz on the North Star State

Test your knowledge of Minnesota with this engaging quiz covering its history, culture, and notable facts.

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1 [60] The state is the U.S.'s largest producer of sugar beets, sweet corn, and ________ for processing, and farm-raised turkeys.

2 The ore was shipped by rail to Duluth and Two Harbors, then loaded onto ships and transported eastward over the ________.

3 Representative from Minnesota as well as the first ________ elected to Congress nationwide.

4 [82] The ________, a world-renowned medical practice, is based in Rochester.

5 What is the motto of Minnesota?

6 How many metres above sea level is the lowest point in Minnesota?

7 Minnesota's growing ________, however, still form a significantly smaller percentage of the population than in the nation as a whole.

8 Which is the largest metropolitan area in Minnesota?

9 [67] The sales tax in Minnesota is 6.875%, but there is no sales tax on ________, prescription medications, some services, or food items for home consumption.

10 What is the full name of Minnesota?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette, Minnesota, on October 7, 1910.
  • the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans.
  • the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured).
  • the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota.
  • the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state.
  • despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper.
  • during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota.
  • the 1863 Point Douglas-St. Louis River Road Bridge (pictured), near Stillwater, Minnesota, is the oldest standing stone arch bridge in Minnesota.
  • the Lumber Exchange Building (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City with more than eleven floors.
  • the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota.
  • the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar.
  • to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000.
  • while the name of western Minnesota's Pomme de Terre River (pictured) translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip.
  • the Glacial Gardens of Interstate Park in Minnesota and Wisconsin contain the greatest concentration of glacial potholes in the world.
  • the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina, Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma.
  • the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States.
  • the Sauk Rapids Tornado of 1886 changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids (damage pictured).
  • at Traverse Gap, a valley in Minnesota and South Dakota, water originating in the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico can flood across the continental divide into the watershed of Hudson Bay.
  • as the chairman of the U.S. Reform Party, Russ Verney asked its highest elected official, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, to resign from the party.
  • dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish.
  • Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer.
  • Itasca State Park (pictured) in Minnesota contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
  • Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam.
  • algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
  • Minnesota's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest.
  • Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933.
  • Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye".
  • Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle (pictured), a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle.
  • Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye.
  • Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse (pictured) on the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads.
  • a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations.
  • according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota, with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf.
  • Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state.
  • Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney.
  • weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 °F (−51 °C) and 114 °F (46 °C).
  • Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike.
  • Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events.
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