Ansel Adams

Question 1

What actress singer and dancer was born Francis Ethel gum on June 10 1922 in Grand Rapids Minnesota

Answer 1

Most remembered for one early movie role the wizard of oz Despite being nominated for academy awards in judgement at norenburg and a star is born later in her career
Judy garland
Youngest of the gum sisters

Question 2

Minnesota coach who played in the CFL NBA and NFL

won 4 gray cups and lost 4 times in the super bowl with the Vikings
Bonus nBA team
Double bonus: cFL team did he coach for 10 years

Answer 2

Bud grant

Won a champ in 1950 Minneapolis lakers coached and played for the Winnipeg blue bombers

Question 3

How many years did Minnesota go without an NBA team

Answer 3

Lakers left in 60 and timberwolves started in 89

29 years

Question 4

Although from Pittsburgh this artist and playwright wrote his 2 most famous pieces in A bar in st Paul Minnesota

Answer 4

Best known plays include fences which won a Pulitzer and tony
and the piano lesson which won a Pulitzer
And ma rainys black bottom
The Pittsburgh cycle about black experiences in 10 different decades in Pittsburgh
August Wilson

Question 5

Famed American novelist short story writer and playwright from sock (Sauk)center Minnesota whose works criticized capitalism and materialism

Answer 5

Sinclair Lewis

First Writer from US to win the Nobel prize in literature in 1930

Question 6

Though he was not known as an author he won the 2016 novel prize for literature

Answer 6

Bob Dylan

Born in Duluth Minnesota

Question 7

A family adopts a mouse as a second son while abagail Breslin competes in a beauty pageant

Answer 7

Stuart little miss sunshine

Question 8

Judge reinhold fantasizes about a bare chested phoebe kates while jack black and John cusack Hang out at a record store mocking customers

Answer 8

Fast times at ridgeMont high fidelity

Question 9

Robert de nero boxes and a veteran catcher mentors a prospect in the minors

Answer 9

Raging bull durham

Question 10

Sean Connery goes rogue in a state of the art Soviet submarine as a poor coal miners son palys with rockets in the 1950s

Answer 10

The hunt for red October sky

Question 11

Harrison fords plane gets hijacked while Jack Nicholson spends time in a mental institution.

Answer 11

Air Force one flew over the cuckoos nest

Question 12

FBI agent Martian Lawrence wears a fat suit and women’s clothing while Paris Hilton’s head is impaled by a pole

Answer 12

Big momma house of wax

Question 13

A Resistance of teenagers defend America. From a Soviet invasion while severa stwngers take refuge from zombies in a shopping mall

Answer 13

Red dawn of the dead

Question 14

3 men in their 30s try to relive their college days by starting a faternity while jack black teaches contemporary music to kids

Answer 14

Old school of rock

Question 15

An astronaut crew lands on Mars and gets attacked by insects 2000 years in the future gorillas and chimpanzees have taken over the earth

Answer 15

Red planet of the apes

Question 16

Lindsay Lohan swaps bodies with her mom while billy bob Thornton coaches high school football in Texas

Answer 16

Freaky Friday night lights

Question 17

Only player to lead the league in hits in both ALand NL

Answer 17

Lance Johnson

White Sox and Mets

Question 18

This Syrian capital is the oldest continuously inhabited one on earth

Answer 18

Damascus

Question 19

Teams that have never been to the WS

Answer 19

Seattle

Question 20

This tabletop game that has players assuming the role of colonial governors is named for the largest island in the US to not be contained within a state

Answer 20

Puerto Rico

Question 21

On average How long is the $1 bill in circulation

Answer 21

21 months

Question 22

First iteration of this machine was actually a failure as its customers were primarily prostitutes and gamblers not longer wanting to deal with humans face to face

Answer 22

ATM

Question 23

How many political parties have been represented by presidents

Answer 23

Dem
Rep 
Democratic-republican 
Federalist 
National union 
Whigs

Question 24

Art and theater

Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree

Answer 24

Waiting for godot

Friends with playwright Samuel Beckett

Question 25

Biographies

The passage of power covers 1958-1964 in Robert Caros 4th volume on the life of this American

Answer 25

Lyndon Johnson

Question 26

On September 23 1992 this woman became the first woman to play in any of the 4 major NA sports

Answer 26

Muh known re ohm in hockey

Question 27

In 1567 she was said to be the first woman to play golf

Answer 27

Mary queen of Scott’s
Origin of the name Caddys
I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not says Neil She coined because her assistants were called cadets and she shortened

Question 28

Golden bears in the Pac 12

Answer 28

Cal Berkeley

Question 29

In baseball scorekeeping 9 de ores this position played by babe Ruth and Ichiro

Answer 29

RF

Question 30

Where is the Big Dipper located

Answer 30

Ursa Major

Question 31

B9

Answer 31

Folic acid