Minnesota Quiz: Can We Stump You?

From the Star Tribune


1We're known as The Land of 10,000 Lakes. But how many lakes are there really in Minnesota?

2 Who had his first short story published in 1909 at age 13, while a student at St. Paul Academy?

3What year did both the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings arrive in Minnesota?

4How many times did Harold Stassen run for president?

5What does the "SP" in SPAM stand for? ("AM" is for ham, and it doesn't count if you check the pantry.)

6What small but helpful innovation at Southdale Mall has been copied by countless other malls?

7What was Minnesota almost called when the Minnesota Territory needed a name?

8Which team did the U.S. Olympic hockey team -- a collection of amateur and college players, many from Minnesota -- defeat to win the gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.?

9What Minnesota company was the world's largest producer of underwear under a single trademark in 1923?

10 What 1962 song brought Bob Dylan his first widespread acclaim?









1. 11,842 (A lake is 10 acres or larger)
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. 1961
4. Nine, between 1948 and 1992
5. Spiced
6. Identifying parking lots by animal
7. Itasca
8. Finland — the famous game against the Russians was a semifinal
9. Munsingwear
10. “Blowin’ in the Wind”