Indiana Quick Quiz
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What type of tree, in Worthington, was once proclaimed the biggest deciduous tree in the nation?
- What invaded Spiceland in 1963?
- In August of each year, where is the only county in Indiana where you can find the world-endangered globe mustard plant?
- Indiana is said to have been visited by how many glaciers?
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January 27, 1967 A flash fire aboard the Apollo I test capsule took the lives of Hoosier astronaut Gus Grissom and two fellow astronauts.
January 28, 1952 George Green, American songwriter ("Hurts So Good", "Rain On The Scarecrow"), born in Seymour.
January 29, 1844 Charles Gerard Conn was born in New York State. As a child, his family moved to Elkhart where he grew up to be Mayor, entrepreneur, and founder of a band company which became world famous.
January 30, 1930 Frank Lewis O’Bannon was born in Corydon. He grew up to become Indiana’s 47th governor, serving from 1997 until his death in 2003.
Where in Indiana
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in Indianapolis, of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
"We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Answers: 1. A 150 feet high sycamore with a trunk 43 feet around. 2. Skunks 3. Posey 4. Three
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