Indiana Quick Quiz
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What do the rays on the Indiana state flag represent?
- What does the torch on the Indiana state flag represent?
- What do the 13 stars in the outer circle of the Indiana state flag represent?
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What do the 5 stars in the inner arc by the torch of the Indiana state flag symbolize?
Answers Below
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July 20, 1935 The Indiana Rural Electric Membership Corporation formed to bring electricity to farms and homes outside the reach of municipal power plants.
July 21, 1969 Purdue University graduate Neil Armstrong walked on the moon as a member of the Apollo 11 Space Program.
July 22, 1935 John Dillinger was killed by FBI agents as he came out of Biograph Theater in Chicago. Dillinger was born in Indianapolis and in his teens moved with his family to Mooresville.
Jul 24, 1916 35,000 mourners passed by the body of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley as he lay in state in the rotunda of the Indiana Statehouse.
Where in Indiana
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in Lebanon in the Boone County courthouse.
"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
-James Whitcomb Riley
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Answers: 1. Far reaching influence 2. Liberty and enlightenment 3. The 13 original states 4. The next 5 states admitted to the Union
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