Indiana Quick Quiz
- The Gus Grissom Memorial is located in which Indiana State Park?
- The "Hoosier Group" of artists includes Otto Stark, Richard Gruelle, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, and what other well known Indiana artist?
- After serving as Governor, Dr. Otis Bowen went on to serve on the Cabinet of which United States President?
Answers Below
1859 Otto Stark was born in Indianapolis. Exhibiting an early talent in art, he went on to study in New York and Paris. He experimented with impressionism, a new style at the time. Returning to Indianapolis in the 1890s, he became a member of the famed "Hoosier Group" of artists.
1877 Fire destroyed the Academy of Music in Indianapolis at the southeast corner of Illinois and Ohio Streets. Governor James D. Williams had taken the oath of office there just three weeks earlier.
1921 Indiana Governor Warren McCray met with members of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association at the Statehouse. They shared with him a proposal to build a children's hospital in tribute to the Hoosier Poet, who had died five years earlier. The Governor agreed that there was a need for a medical facility for children and pledged the state's cooperation.
1940 Thousands lined up at Loew's Theater in Indianapolis for the Indiana premier of Gone With the Wind. Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Mayor Reginald Sullivan were among those in the opening night audience for the highly-anticipated movie. The theater had installed new projector lenses to enhance the richness of the Technicolor process used in the film.
1967 A flash fire aboard the Apollo I test capsule took the lives of Hoosier astronaut Gus Grissom and fellow astronauts Edward White and Roger Chaffee. Grissom (pictured) had grown up in Mitchell, Indiana, and served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
HOOSIER QUOTE OF THE WEEK - "There have been times when all of us wished we had gone into some other line of work. . . but when the first man touches down on the moon a few years from now, we'll know that the whole thing has been more than worth it." - - - Gus Grissom
1978 Indiana Governor Otis Bowen declared a snow emergency for the entire state after the worst blizzard on record. State Police said all roads should be considered closed. A record 30.6 inches of snow fell in Indianapolis during the month.
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ANSWERS: 1. Spring Mill State Park 2. T. C. Steele 3. President Ronald Reagan
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