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Indiana Quick Quiz

  1.      What highway was once called the "National Road"?

  2.      The movie "Hard Rain" was filmed in what Indiana city?October 16 - October 22 The Week in Indiana History | Spotlight on Lake

  3.      What city serves as the county seat of Orange County?

  4.      What was Waldron, Indiana originally named?

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Williams

June 3, 1950 Deniece Williams, American pop singer (“Love Won’t Le Me Wait”, “Let’s Hear It For The Boy”), born in Gary.

 

June 4, 1918 Charles Warren Fairbanks died at his home in Indianapolis. He had served as United States Senator from Indiana and Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt. His body lay in state in the rotunda of the Indiana Statehouse.  

Fairbanks

Terman

 

June 7, 1900 Frederick Terman, American professor of engineering at Stanford University known as the “father of Silicon Valley”, born in English, Indiana.

 

WellsJune 7, 1902 Herman B. Wells, President and chancellor of Indiana University, born in Jamestown, Indiana.

 
quotes

From Hoosier Native Jim Davis, American cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, and creator of Garfield comic strip:

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

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Clinton County 

Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in the Clinton County courthouse in Frankfort.

 

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Cardinal

The Indiana State bird; the northern cardinal.

 

Answers:        1. U.S. 40     2. Huntingburg     3. Paoli     4. Stroupville

 

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