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Indiana Quick Quiz
1. Where does Indiana rank for area, compared to other states?
2. Where does Indiana rank for population, compared to other states?
3. What is the length of Indiana?
4. What is the width of Indiana?
Answers Below
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January 4, 1986 Poet Arthur Franklin Mapes dies in Kendallville. Among his works is “Indiana,” adopted as the Indiana State Poem in 1963.
January 6, 1887 The General Assembly opens its first session at the new Statehouse in Indianapolis.
January 9, 1821 The legislature authorizes the construction of the first state prison, to be built in Jeffersonville.
January 10, 1825 The Indiana General Assembly holds its first meeting at the County Courthouse in Indianapolis, marking the transfer of the state capital.
Where in Indiana
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken from inside the dome of the Statehouse.
"Then blow, Winds, blow!
And rave and shriek,
And snarl and snow
Til your breath grows weak-
While here in my room
I'm as snugly shut
As a glad little worm
In the heart of a nut!"
-James Whitcomb Riley
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Answers: 1. 38th-largest by area 2. 17th-most populous 3. 268 miles 4. 144 miles
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