Indiana Quick Quiz
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How many brands of cars were made in Indiana between 1900-1920?
- Where does the Indiana car and truck manufacturing production rank nationally?
- Who invented the first commercially successful gasoline-powered automobile?
- How many vehicles were produced in Indiana in 2024?
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October 26, 1803 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off down the Ohio River from Clarksville to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Northwest Territory. The journey would take them all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
October 28, 1798 Levi Coffin is born in North Carolina. In 1826 he moves to Newport, IN (now Fountain City) and operated what has become known as the “Grand Central Station” of the Underground Railroad.
October 30, 1938 WIBC radio began broadcasting in Indianapolis at 1070 AM.
November 1, 1851 The new Indiana Constitution goes into effect. Continuing to serve as the foundation of state government, it is one of the oldest in the nation, one of the shortest and one of the least modified.
Where in Indiana
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in the Indiana Attorney General's office in the Indiana Statehouse.
“I thought it was always safe to do right. The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color, and I should try to follow out the teachings of that good book.”
-Levi Coffin
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Answers: 1. Over 200 2. Third 3. Elwood Haynes in Kokomo 4. 937,726
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