Indiana Quick Quiz
1. What is the Indiana State motto?
2. How long is the Wabash River?
3, How many farmers are there in Indiana?
4. What is the average size of a farm in Indiana?
Answers Below
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February 15, 1898 The U.S.S. Maine exploded in waters off Cuba. The tragedy helped ignite the Spanish-American War. Indiana sent 7,421 volunteers into the conflict, which lasted six months.
February 16, 1852 Henry and Clement Studebaker opened a blacksmith shop in South Bend. Their company became the world’s largest maker of wagons and carriages and later a major automobile manufacturer.
February 17, 1892 James F. Hanley is born in Rensselaer. He becomes a popular songwriter and in 1917 publishes “Back Home Again in Indiana.”
February 20, 1842 The first medical school in Indiana opens as a department of LaPorte University. A graduate of the school is William Worrall Mayo, who establishes the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in 1889.
Born in New Castle, Robert Indiana's most famous work of art, a sculpture with versions in Philadelphia and other cities, is a bright red, blue, and green rendition of the word LOVE. The LOVE sculpture was based on Indiana's original 1965 Christmas card design for Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Where in Indiana
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in Indianapolis at the Stutz building.
"Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees."
-Robert Indiana
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Answers: 1. "Crossroads of America" 2. 500 miles long 3. over 94,000 4. 264 acres
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