Heritage Travel Club Trivia Answers

Summer, 2008
1) Name the Frenchman who began a trading post in 1821 near the great bend on the Missouri.
Francois Chouteau
2)  Who named the city of Westport?
John Calvin McCoy
3)  In what year was Swope Park opened?
1896
4) In what year was the Kansas Constitution written at Wyandotte?
1859

Spring, 2008
1) The Jayhawk is a mix of which two birds?
Blue Jay and Sparrow Hawk
2) What was the name of the regiment formed by Kansas Governor Charles Robinson during the Civil War?
Independent Mounted Kansas Jayhawks
3) Who created the 1946 Jayhawk design used today?
Harold D. Sandy
4) In what year was “Baby Jay” introduced?
1971

Winter, 2008
1) What does the word “Omaha” mean?
Against the current
2) On what date and year did the Nebraska legislature officially incorporate Omaha?
February 2, 1857
3) On what date did President Lincoln announce Omaha to be “the eastern terminus of the new transcontinental railroad”?
November 17, 1863
4) In what year did Father Edward Flanagan begin Boys Town?
1917

Fall, 2007
1) In what year was Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park created?
1895
2) In what year was Glacier National Park created?
1910
3) How many acres does Glacier National Park encompass?
1.4 million acres
4) In what year was the first Calgary Exhibition held?
1886

Summer, 2007
1) The 50th state to join the Union, Hawaii became a state on what date?
August 21, 1959
2) What do the eight stripes of white, red and blue on the state flag represent?
The eight main islands
3) What is the name of the tallest volcano on the Island of Hawaii (13,796 feet)?
Mauna Kea
4) Which three U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers escaped the attack on Pearl Harbor because they were not in port?
Enterprise, Lexington, Saratoga

Spring, 2007
1) What was Irving Berlin’s birth name?
Isadore or Israel Baline
2) In what year did Irving Berlin’s family move to America? Hint: It was the same year Capitol Federal was founded.
1893
3) Although Bing Crosby first sang White Christmas on radio in December 1941, in what 1942 musical was this Oscar winning song introduced to movie-goers by Crosby?
Holiday Inn
4) What state served as the location for the 1954 musical, White Christmas?
Vermont

Winter, 2007
1) What is probably the most powerful force to have affected the formation of the Grand Canyon?
Water
2) What is the name of the Earth’s plate which consists of the Grand Canyon?
North American
3) The Grand Canyon is comprised mostly of what kind of rock?
Sedimentary Rock
4) What is the top layer of the Grand Canyon called?
Kaibab Limestone

Fall, 2006
1) What southern Australian city is known as the Opal Capital of the World?
Coober Pedy
2) Name Tasmania’s fourth largest city, which is located on Emu Bay.
Burnie
3) Who were the first people to migrate to New Zealand?
Maori
4) Who was the first Maori explorer to discover New Zealand, and where was his homeland?
Kupe – Hawaiki

Summer, 2006
1) Incorporated in 1912, Branson actually was founded in what year?
1903
2) What is the name of the first Branson music show, which began in 1957?
The Baldknobbers
3) Who is the author of the 1907 novel, “The Shepherd of the Hills”?
Harold Bell Wright
4) What industry provided the Ozarks with its first economic boom?
The timber industry used for the nation's expanding rail system

Spring, 2006
1) What famous American author wrote the story, "The Sobbin Women", on which the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" is based?
Stephen Vincent Benet
2) Who directed "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in the 1954 movie?
Stanley Donen
3) In what state does the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" take place?
Oregon
4) Nominated for five Academy Awards, which Oscar did "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" win?
Best Musical Score

Winter, 2006
1) Who founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for polio research in 1927?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2) The Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens is a conservatory that houses over how many tropical butterflies, representing over 50 species?
1,000
3) At the foothills of what mountain range will you find Pine Mountain?
Appalachian
4) A portion of this park was constructed by the CCC, which stands for what organization?
Civilian Conservation Corps

Fall, 2005
1) A "World Heritage Site", this Megalithic Passage Tomb was built in 3200 B.C. and may be older than the Pyramids of Egypt. Name this Passage Tomb.
Newgrange
2) What annual event allows sunlight to penetrate the passage and chamber of the Passage Tomb?
Winter Soltice Sunrise
3) What is Saint Patrick's real name?
Maewyn Succat
4) This famous Irish site, called Temair in Gaelic, was the sacred dwelling place of the gods and the entrance to the otherworld. Myth has it that this is where St. Patrick challenged the ancient pagan religion.
Hill of Tara

Summer, 2005
1) In what year and in what country did ballooning begin?
1783 - France
2) When was the first Albuquerque Balloon Festival held?
April 1972
3) Named for the first balloon builders, what are hot air balloons called?
Montgolfiers
4) What is today's fuel of choice for hot air balloons?
Propane

Spring, 2005
1) Phantom, an American version of Phantom of the Opera, was written by two Tony winners. Name them.
Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit
2) Who wrote the novel, Phantom of the Opera?
Gaston Leroux
3) In what year does the story take place?
It opens in 1911 and then Phantom takes a flashback to 1880, when the major part of the story takes place.
4) What is the setting for the Phantom story?
Paris Opera House and the catacombs found beneath it

Winter, 2005
1) In what year did Mt. Vesuvius erupt and cover the city of Pompeii?
A. D. 79
2) How many days did the eruption continue?
Three days
3)  How many people perished in this disaster?
More than 20,000
4)  In what year did archeologists begin excavating Pompeii, "unearthing a city that was literally frozen in time".
Will accept two answers: 1748 or 1800

Spring, 2008
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