Armstrong kids Wisconsin

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  1. 4. When the first explorers reached the Wisconsin region in the 1600s, several _______ American groups were living there. These included the Ojibwa, Menominee, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sauk, Fox, Illinois, Miami, Mascouten, Huron, Ottawa, and Santee Sioux.
  2. 5. Just like what happens with most other inventions, it took the effort of many people to create the typewriter. It is estimated that there were 52 designs before the modern typewriter was arrived at. The first commercially viable typewriter was created in 1868, and at the heart of it was a Wisconsinite named Christopher Latham Sholes. A newspaper printer and editor, Christopher Latham invented the ______ (named for the first six letters in one row of keys) keyboard that’s used to date in computers and phones. Therefore, a standard on how we type today was created by a Wisconsinite.
  3. 7. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, which is the largest meeting of aviators in the world, has, since 1970, been held right here every summer. During the event, which takes one week, the ____ control tower is the busiest on earth as close to 15,000 aircrafts land at the airport, plus approximately 500,000 visitors. All of these come here to get a glimpse of the thrilling aerobatic displays and flybys from contemporary and vintage military aircraft.
  4. 8. The largest wooly ___ (an elephant like creature) ever excavated was found in Kenosha, and a replica can be viewed at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
  5. 11. Wisconsin's ethnic roots: ______ (one of the types of passport that you have) 42.6%, Irish 10.9%, Polish 9.3%, Norwegian 8.5%, English 6.5%3
  6. 12. This name for some of the first motorhomes comes from a the name of a native american tribe pronounced like wi·nuh·bay·gow. If they had used the other name for this group, the Ho-Chunk it probably would not have sold as well.
  7. 13. This delectable bowl of ice cream with one of many toppings ws first served in Two Rivers Wisconsin at the Washington House - located 43 miles southeast of Green Bay following Interstate 43 for most of that distance. The name sounds like the name of the first day of the week but it is spelled differently.
  8. 15. The Wind Point Lighthouse in Racine is the tallest tower still standing on Wisconsin’s Great Lakes. It was constructed in 1880. The tower rises 112 over the waters.
  9. 16. Wisconson has more than 15 thousand of these bodies of water that account for nearly one million acres or 3% of Wisconsins area.
  10. 18. This small series of dolls with the shape of a grown woman has been popular for a long time. She hails from Willows, Wisconsin. But don't go looking for that town on the Wisconsin map because it is a fictional town. You may, however, be interested in a day at the Fennimore Doll and Toy Museum.
  11. 19. Wisconsin is the 2nd largest exporter of this liquid cheese byproducnt in the united state. (___ is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained. It is a byproduct of the manufacture of cheese or casein and has several commercial uses. Sweet ____ is a byproduct resulting from the manufacture of rennet types of hard cheese, like cheddar or Swiss cheese.) this four letter word is pronouned as follows: (h)wā
  12. 21. This fake butter product was not viewed with favor in the Dairy state of Wisconsin. In fact it was so disliked it was illegal to sell or use this butter substitue from 1895 to 1967. And even today, it remains illegal for a restuarant to serve it instead of butter unless the customer specifically requests it.
  13. 24. Suptnik IV fell out of ______(its path around the earh in space) in 1962 and while most of it burned up on re-entry, a 20-pound piece of debris crashed to the ground in Manitowoc. The original piece of Sputnik was returned to the Soviets but the Rahr-West Art Museum has a replica of it on display and Manitowoc celebrates Sputnikfest each September.
  14. 27. The bay was named la baie des Puants (literally, "the bay of the Stinks") by the French explorer Jean Nicolet as shown on many French maps of the 17th and 18th centuries. According to George R. Stewart, the French received the name from their Indian guides, who called the natives living near Green Bay by a derogatory word meaning "Stinkers", thus the bay was the "Bay of the Stinkers", but this name perplexed the French, and Jacques Marquette thought the name might relate to the smell of the swamps when he explored the area in May 1673. His fellow explorer Louis Joliet, with two canoes and five voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry (Métis) were on their way to find the Mississippi River. They travelled up the Fox River, nearly to its headwaters. The French also called the bay Baie Verte, and the English kept this name as Green Bay. The name of the bay in the Menominee language is Pūcīhkit, or "bay that smells like something ____" (decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose.).
  15. 28. Wisconsin is America’s undisputed Dairy land. It is the no.1 producer of cheese in the US, and ranks second in terms of the best milk producers. _____ (quatre-vingt-dix) percent of milk originating from Wisconsin is used for making cheese. Wisconsin boasts the largest dairy cattle per square kilometer than any other state. Unsurprisingly, Wisconsin is the only American state offering a Master Cheese maker program.
  16. 31. The first European explorer to reach Wisconsin was Jean Nicolet. Searching for the _______ (a route that would allow ships to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through what we now know as North America) Passage to China, he arrived in the region in 1634.
  17. 32. Wisconsin isn’t just known for all the nice things. It also has a history of gangsters. They used to like Waukesha County a lot, specifically Oconomowoc. Some notable members included John Dillinger, Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson, and Bugs Moran. Just ____-______ miles to the west of Millwaukee (be sure to include the hyphen.
  18. 35. The anniversary of the Peshtigo Fire usually receives little note outside the region because another horrific fire the same night -- the great _____ (the huge city to the south in Illinois) Fire -- still seems to hog the headlines. It had been an unusually dry summer, and the fire moved fast. Some survivors said it moved so fast it was "like a tornado." The sudden, convulsive speed of the flames consumed available oxygen. Some trying to flee burst into flames. it scorched 1.2 to 1.5 million acres, although it skipped over the waters of Green Bay to burn parts of Door and Kewaunee counties. The damage estimate was at $169 million, about the same as for the Chicago Fire. The fire also burned 16 other towns, but the damage in Peshtigo was the worst. The city was gone in an hour. In Peshtigo alone, 800 lives were lost. The fire produced countless stories of heroics and tragedy, which are collected at the research center, as well as the Peshtigo Fire Museum in downtown Peshtigo. The fire burned about 1.2 million acres and is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history,[1] with the number of deaths estimated between 1,500[1] and 2,500 (5 times as many as the other fire the same night).
  19. 36. This french speaking country laid claim to Wisconsin as part of its territory in the New World in 1672
  20. 37. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. Vince _____ (famous Green Bay Packers coach)
  21. 38. During the summer, the population of _____ County reaches ten times the number of year-round residents. (28,000 vs. 250,000). This county is midway up the penninsula between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. You can locate it, by looking for the Sturgeon Bay - the county seat.
  22. 41. Effigy mounds are a common sight in Wisconsin. These raised earth piles were built in the shape of a symbol, ______ (various living things) or other figures. Although Native Americans built them throughout the country, it’s in Wisconsin that they are most common.
  23. 42. When Curly Lambeau founded the team that would become the Green Bay _______ in 1919, the Acme Packing Company in Green Bay was the team’s sponsor, so Lambeau named the team after the company.
  24. 43. This berry only grows in a few locations in the U.S. The bush only grows a few inches high, it is red and often a part of traditional Thanksgiving dinner. In addition, it is the only agricultural product I am aware of that floods the field at harvest time. If you want to join 100000 other people to celebrate this berry, then plan to visit the town of Warrens in September.
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  1. 1. Throughout the 1850s Wisconsin was a leader in the abolition of slavery. Slaves passed through the _______ ( {synonyms: clandestine, secretive, covert} definition a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South) Railroad on their way to Canada. ( think...hidden as in a tunnel.)
  2. 2. By 1829 more than 4,000 lead miners worked in southwestern Wisconsin, in and around ______Point, a town 50 miles west southwest of Madison whose first name means a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
  3. 3. Vince Lombardi, the famous coach of the Green Bay Packers said "The quality of a person's life is in ______ (opposite of indirect) proportion their commitment to excellence, regarless of their chosen field of endeavor."
  4. 6. The full name of the best selling small female doll with a fully formed womans body is Barbie Millicent _______. (the plural form of Robert Redfords' first name).
  5. 7. Green Bay Packer football fans are known as _____, some go so far as to wear hats shaped like a wedge of Cheddar. But the term was acuall first used by German soldiers to insult the Dutch during World War II.
  6. 8. This town about a hundred and 15 milwa west-southwest of Milwaukee is best known for cheese. Every September of an even-numbered year, cheese lovers celebrate the Green County Cheese Days.
  7. 9. In 1960, Wally Mohrman invented the rope ______. He was thinking of a winter activity that kids could play. He designed it in a way that kids from grade I to middle school would contend to see who managed to _____ a rope most in 10 seconds. It was after this that rope ______ing gained world fame. Subsequently, Bloomer got the name of the world’s Rope _______ing Capital.
  8. 10. ______ County (Contains the town of Wausau- which is 98 miles west of Green Bay on highwy 29) produces nearly all of the ginseng grown in the U.S. and about 10 percent of the world’s supply. There’s even an international festival in September to give you an up-close look at the process and a chance to taste foods and drinks incorporating the product.
  9. 14. The Wisonsin State symbol is a _____. These animal are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (This includes the following animals, one of which is the one you are looking for, Otters, woverines badgers, martens, minks, polecats, Weasels and ferrets.) They are a polyphyletic grouping and are not a natural taxonomic grouping: they are united by their squat bodies, adapted for fossorial activity. All belong to the caniform suborder of carnivoran mammals. If you understood all of that, then you are better than your grandpa. Seriously though that description sounds like it could be interesting if you understood it, it has nothing to do with why one of these animals is on the Wisconsin State Flag. It doesn’t refer to the animal at all, but instead to the 1820s lead miners who traveled for work and dug tunnels to sleep in and keep warm, much like a this animal. Celebrate the name on gameday with the UW-Madison Wisconsin _____s!+
  10. 17. The Wisconsin River is said to be the name behind the state’s name. The river used to be referred to as Meskousing by the aboriginal Algonquian-speaking tribes. Jacques Marquette, a French explorer, first recorded the name in 1673. With time, the word turned into Ouisconsin, Wiskonsan before it finally took the current spelling and pronunciation forms. Linguists suspect the original name could have been taken from a Miami word “meskonsing” which loosely translates to “this river meanders through something red” or “it lies red. This likely refers to the ______ formations found in the river. (The word your are looking for is the name of a sedimentary rock composed mostly of quartz sand, but it can also contain significant amounts of feldspar, and sometimes silt and clay. ... Because it is composed of light colored minerals, sandstone is typically light tan in color.)
  11. 20. Some of the most popular attractions of Wisconsin are the buildings that were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This was a native of Wisconsin and one of its most ever prominent citizens. He was a member of this profession that is described as a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings.
  12. 22. Designed and built in the early 1940s, the House on the Rock is considered an architectural marvel and is perched on a 60-foot chimney of rock. The 14-room house is now a complex of rooms, streets, buildings, and gardens covering over 200 _____ (unit of land measure equivelant to 4,047 square metres). The Infinity Room contains 3,264 windows.
  13. 23. The Summerfest, held in Milwaukee, attracts some 1 million visitors every year. This made the event to be recognized in the ______ Book of Records as the largest music festival in the world.
  14. 25. Sheboygan is commonly known by avid surfers as ‘Malibu of the Midwest.’ Freshwater surfing takes place from around September to March. The _____ Lakes is one of the top surf spots with favorable geography.
  15. 26. This line of well made childens clothing includes the name of the two, Oshkosh, and a contraction of the two words "By gosh"--be sure to include the apostrophe.
  16. 29. The professional football team located in Green Bay Wisconsin is unique because it is owned by a non-profit corporation with 364,300 _________.
  17. 30. _______ Britain obtained the region in settlement of the French and Indian Wars in 1763; the U.S. acquired it in 1783 after the Revolutionary War. However, G.B. retained actual control until after the War of 1812.
  18. 33. In 1882 the first ____ (water powered electrical generating) plant in the United States was built at Fox River.
  19. 34. It was in Ripon, Wisconsin that the ________ Party was founded. The idea of the party was conceived during a meeting held at the Little White Schoolhouse on March 20, 1854. The main reason for forming the party was to fight slavery. This political party is the more conservative of the two main political parties in the U.S. In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act allowed settlers of the two states to decide the question of slavery in their state. Many Wisconsinites opposed slavery and held a meeting to protest the possibility of slavery within the new states. This meeting in Ripon, led to the foundation of the Republican Party.
  20. 39. The electric ____ (six stringed instrument you strum or pick) you see today is popular, thanks to Les Paul, a Wisconsinite. Paul’s exploits and contributions in guitar playing were to earn him a nickname of Wizard of Waukesha. His legacy continues to live on especially with contemporary interpretations of Gibson Les Paul. More companies have followed the fray with Les Paul’s replicas paying homage to the signature design of this guitar maestro.
  21. 40. For many years in the U.S. (it changed during your grandpa's life time) the price of this liquid product extracted from cows was determined by how far from Wisconin it was sold. This was presumably to protect the Wisconsin Dair farmers but didn't seem terribly fair to Dairys supplying the diary to areas beyond where the Wisconsin was able to supply fresh products.