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Each welcome packet for the 2007 NCAGTG will include a list of South Dakota trivia questions.

Your answers in this thread along with your answers to the trivia questionnaire from the welcome packet will be used to determine the person who has the most correct answers.

The person with the most combined correct answers will receive a special gift valued at over $75! The runner up will receive a special gift valued at over $50! In the event of a tie, we will draw numbers to determine the official winners.

Go ahead and post your answers.. If you change your mind post again. You just might win!

Please quote each question and include your answer.

Good Luck!
 
Question #1
What is the name of the State Tree?
 
Question #2
Which Wild West legend was shot while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota?
 
Question #3
In what year did the first railroad in South Dakota begin operation?
 
amd1900mp said:
Question #3
In what year did the first railroad in South Dakota begin operation?
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1872? :wave:

The Dakota Southern Railroad
 
Question #4
In what city did the temperature jump from minus 4 degrees to plus 45 degrees in only two minutes on January 22nd, 1943?
 
amd1900mp said:
Question #4
In what city did the temperature jump from minus 4 degrees to plus 45 degrees in only two minutes on January 22nd, 1943?
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Spearfish, S.D. from a chinook wind
 
Todd, any relation  ??? 

1860-61--J.B.S. Todd, an early promoter of Dakota Territory and brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln,
goes to Washington, D.C. to lobby for territortial statis for Dakota.
 
Not that I am aware of..  :laugh:
 
Imagine a trip from Dakota to DC in 1860, the RR didn't reach there until 10 years later.
 
There have also been several reports of wild temperature swings.  In 1943, Spearfish, South Dakota saw the temperature rise from four degrees below zero Fahrenheit to 45 degrees above in just two minutes.  An hour and a half later the temperature plunged back down to four below zero.  In 1916, the temperature at Browning, Montana went from 44 degrees to 56 below zero in one day.  That?s a one hundred degree drop!

 
Flint4x4 said:
Imagine a trip from Dakota to DC in 1860, the RR didn't reach there until 10 years later.
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You have to hand it to the explorers back in those days. They never new what was over the next mountain or across the next stream.

Todd
 
Question #5
What famous game show host grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation where his mother taught school?

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amd1900mp said:
What famous game show host grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation where his mother taught school?
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Bob Barker
 
Question #6
Where can you find granite spires poking up from the ground that resemble needles while driving on a natural roller coaster?
 
Question #7
Where can the first memorial to President Theodore Roosevelt be found?
 
amd1900mp said:
Question #7
Where can the first memorial to President Theodore Roosevelt be found?
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Is this a trick question ? I'll argue it's his tombstone 

Young's Memorial Cemetery
Oyster Bay
Nassau County
New York, USA
 
amd1900mp said:
Question #6
Where can you find granite spires poking up from the ground that resemble needles while driving on a natural roller coaster?
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Sounds like Cathedral Spires National Landmark.  We visited the area a few years ago.

Butch
 
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