Wednesday, 2/12

If you gave it a try, how'd you do?

Yesterday, I gave you the quiz that I gave to the people who took the bus to our Business After Hour son Monday. Today, I'll give you the answer to the nine questions. And, in case you're curious, no one on the bus got all nine correct. Someone got eight, which impressed the heck out of me, so let's see if you topped the bus gang.

Ready?

Question 1--When they built the US-41 bypass in 1963, they built it over the course of which body of water?

Answer 1—The Whetstone Creek

Question 2—(As we drove past things like Genessee Street and Huron Mountain Bread Company) The area through which we're passing right now is commonly known as which Marquette neighborhood?

Answer 2—South Marquette, the birth place of daily blog reader Chicky-Poo, currently hanging out in Melbourne Beach, Florida.

Question 3--True or false—George Shiras never actually lived full time in Marquette.

Answer 3—True. Despite the fact that he names everything from a park to a planetarium George Shiras III only spend summers in Marquette, after he married Peter White's daughter Ellen.

Question 4--As we pass the Carp River, that big thing on the side of the road is a re-creation of what kind of structure?

Answer 4—It's a replica of a charcoal kiln

Question 5--That little building out in front of the prison used to be what?

Answer 5—The Prison gift shop. It's where you used to be able to buy prisons, he says in a deadpan voice.

Question 6--How old is Lake Superior? When was it formed? 12 million years ago? 120,000 years ago? 12,000 years ago?

Answer 6—12,000 years. It was formed by the receding glaciers of the end of the last ice age. It always blows my mind to know that humans were settling into the first farming communities before Lake Superior exists. Wow.

Question 7--True or false—By population, Chocolay Township is the second biggest place in Marquette County after the city of Marquette.

Answer 7—False, but not by much. The trio of the city of Ishpeming, Forsyth Township, and Chocolay Township all have around 6,000 residents. Chocolay is (by a few hundred) the smallest of the three

Question 8--Charles T Harvey (who founded and named the village of Harvey) was instrumental in designing and building the first version of which iconic UP structure?

Answer 8—He designed and was lead engineer on construction of the first Soo Lock.

Question 9--True or False—the little hamlet of Green Garden, right down the road from the intersection of 41 & 28, was the birthplace of a professional wrestling champion.

Answer 9—True. Gus Sonnenberg, 1920s pro football player turned pro wrestler turned early tabloid fodder, was born there before moving into Marquette as a child.

There you go. Hope you did well;.  Wish I still had a prize left to give you!

(jim@wmqt.com)