Quiz: Minnesota Facts

Quiz: Minnesota

Instructions: Type the correct word or words in the blanks to complete the facts about Minnesota. If you type a space after your answer, it will look like it is correct, but it will be marked wrong. Use the tab key to move from space to space.

The capital of Minnesota is ⁽¹⁾.
Minnesota's nickname is ^{(2) "}.^"
Because Minnesota has so many lakes, one out of every six residents owns a ⁽³⁾.
Minnesotans don't boast about themselves a lot. They are considered to be the most ⁽⁴⁾ people (a personal characteristic) in the country. After all, "it's hard to be arrogant when you're freezing."
The Twin Cities metropolis of Minneapolis-⁽⁵⁾ is considered the coldest major urban area in the United States and one of the coldest in the world. .
The silver lining in all that frigidity is that Minnesota has come up with many ⁽⁶⁾ innovations, including a stadium with a teflon-coated fiberglass roof that stays inflated with air pressure, the nation's first enclosed shopping mall, and more than 8 miles of enclosed walkways and bridges crisscrossing 80 downtown blocks.
The third largest city in the state of Minnesota by population is the ⁽⁷⁾, an enclosed shopping mall with its own post office, police precinct, church and an amusement park. It gets about 40 million visitors a year.
Minnesota's Twin Cities were built on the ⁽⁸⁾ River. St. Paul was the head of riverboat transportation on the river, and Minneapolis was built at St. Anthony Falls where the saw mills, initially, and then flour mills were able to get water power from the river.
The river also provided excellent transport for Minnesota's early ⁽⁹⁾ industry, which attracted many northern European settlers with logging backgrounds. By the 1880's, 71% of Minnesota's non-native population was first or second generation European, half of them Scandinavians.
There's a small part of Minnesota called the Northwest Angle that's so far north that it's actually in ⁽¹⁰⁾. This geographical anomaly was the result of a mapping error right after the American Revolution.
Even though Minnesota exhausted its ore supplies, it is still able to produce 75% of the nation's usable ⁽¹¹⁾ ore because researchers developed a technique to extract ore from lower-grade taconite rock .
Minnesota has one of the most highly educated poulations in America, and they have a great appreciation for the arts. Minneappolis, for instance, boasts more ⁽¹²⁾ per capita than any other city outside New York.
Minnesotan's love of culture extends to broadcasting. In 2005, residents donated millions of dollars to Minnesota Public ⁽¹³⁾, whose programming reaches around the globe.

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