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  1. 4. The state of Minnesota ranks first when it comes to the percentage of residents who exercise ____________ (at uniform intervals of time).
  2. 6. Minnesota's state ________ (bloom) is the ladyslipper.
  3. 8. It is also the only state with the source of three main rivers – the ______ (river that drains most of the United States East of the Rockies), the St. Lawrence and the Red River of the North.
  4. 10. MN stocks its waters with 256,259,500 ____ (Aquatic animals) on average per year. That's enough to give 4 out of 5 people in the US a fish.
  5. 12. The region has the largest population of gray wolves outside of ____ (the 49th state). It is also home to considerable populations of elk and white-tailed deer. The state has populations of waterfowl, such as geese and ducks as well as other migratory birds, such as Uruguayans, pheasants, and turkeys. To the southeast, you can find brook trout, common trout, and rainbow trout.
  6. 13. The state is home to the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit organization that works to educate, research and provide _______ (doctors treating sick people) care for anyone who needs it.The Mayo Clinic is an American nonprofit academic _____ center based in Rochester, Minnesota. The facility employs more than 60,000 staff people including scientists, physicians, administrators and allied health staff. Surgery at Mayo Clinic began with the frontier practice of Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who moved to Rochester in 1863.
  7. 15. Legend has it giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox created Minnesota's lakes with their _______ (indentations in the earth left by the lowest part of one's body). But the lakes were actually created by melting glaciers!
  8. 16. Modern inline skates were invented by two Minnesota students – Scott and Brennan Olson, who wanted to practice ice _____ (winter sport with pucks and sticks on I skates) in the summer.
  9. 17. Located at 726 Vineland Place the Minneapolis ______ Garden, Spoonbridge and Cherry is an enormous example of what this park is about. The top of the cherry is thirty feet from the ground and the spoon is more than fifty feet long. It sits in a small pond and the cherry is a fountain.
  10. 21. The Mississippi river begins in Minnesota and ______ the the country east to west. There is however about 125 miles in Northern Minnestoa where the River doesn't divide the eastern and western U.S.
  11. 23. Minnesota has one recreational _____ (watercraft) per every six people; that's 909,528 watercraft, more than the population of South Dakota (and North Dakota).
  12. 24. The twin cities are Minneapolis and St. ______ (the name of the writer of the most epistles in the New Testament).
  13. 25. Minnesota has 35 state water trails with over 4,500 miles of terrific ______ (propelling a kayak or canoe with a paddle)! Whether you want to kayak, canoe, or stay at a campsite on the river, you can find a place to paddle here.
  14. 31. since its creation as a state of the Union, education Minnesota has paid special attention to _______ (ejəˈkāSH(ə)n). MN is proudly one of the ten strongest states in _______.
  15. 32. Valleyfair is the largest ______ (əˈmyo͞ozmənt) park in the Midwest area of the United States. It has over 75 rides and attractions including eight roller coasters.. There is also an area called “Route 76” dedicated to the classic attractions with which the park originally started in 1976.
  16. 34. Then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gave his now-famous “Speak Softly and Carry a Big ____” speech at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair. Roosevelt was describing his style of foreign policy as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis."[2] As practiced by Roosevelt, big stick diplomacy had five components. First it was essential to possess serious military capability that would force the adversary to pay close attention. At the time that meant a world-class navy. Roosevelt never had a large army at his disposal. The other qualities were to act justly toward other nations, never to bluff, to strike only when prepared to strike hard, and the willingness to allow the adversary to save face in defeat.
  17. 35. The state has a long culinary tradition. It is regarded as the nation’s ____ (a large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock) thanks to a remarkable production of wheat, pig and dairy products. There are more than 1,000 restaurants throughout the State. I am not sure that would be viewed in a positive light by the millions of "city slickers" in our country.
  18. 36. Scotch tape was just one of many new products developed by the 3M company. Did you ever wonder why it is called 3M? Specifically, they started out with the intention of mining the necessary types of stone for making grinding wheels and sand paper. Hence, they named themselves after this pursuit: “The Minnesota _______(the industry of obtaining minerals from a mine)and Manufacturing Company”, which they later change to simply “3M”.
  19. 38. An amazing fact in Minnesota fact file is that that the world’s first open heart operation was performed in the ______ (another name for a large college offering a diverse range of majors) of Minnesota in 1952 by Dr. C Walton Lillehei. Lillehei has been called the “King of Hearts” for his pioneering research as a surgeon and inventor of medical devices.
  20. 39. Minnesota has an interesting history with different parts of what is now the state were controlled by different countries at different times in its history. France was the first, it _____ (sounds like seeded but means to give up especially by treaty) part of the area to the United Kingdom in 1763 twenty years later it was acquired by the U.S. The remainder was a part of the Lousiana Purchase in 1803.
  21. 41. Discovered in 1937, Mystery Cave is the longest cave in Minnesota. It covers over 13 miles of __________ (opposite of over ground) passages that were created as moving water dissolved the rock. Each tour takes you through different parts of the cave, and will showcase features like stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, fossils, and beautiful underground pools.
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  1. 1. Minnesota is what you might call ______ (opposite of horizontally) condensed. Its lowest point (Lake Superior, at 600 feet above sea level) is less than 15 miles from the 2,301-foot summit of Eagle Mountain, its highest point. By way of contrast there are 3 ski areas in oregon that have more veritcal drop in their ski area. My favorite ski area in Oregon is Mount Hood Meadows which has within the ski area vertical drop of 2822 feet. That is 1.65 times more than the most extreme difference in the State of Minnesota. But even more impressive is Timberline Ski Area (also on Mount Hood) is has more than twice the vertical drop of the difference in Minnesota at 3690 feet.
  2. 2. In 1660 the first ________ (people from Europe) settlement occured in Minnesota.
  3. 3. The mighty Mississippi River begins its winding journey to the Gulf of Mexico as a mere 18-foot wide knee-deep river in Itasca State Park. From here the river flows north to ______ (buh·mi·jee), where it turns east, and then south near Grand Rapids. It will flow a total of 694 miles before working its way out of Minnesota.
  4. 5. Minnesota is known as the land of a 10,000 ______ (bodies of water). In reality according to the MNDNR database suggests that Minnesota has 14,380 of these if you count the ones that cross the U.S. – Canada border and do not count a few lakes that are mostly in other states. And did not count waterbodies under 10 acres.
  5. 7. This company Land __'______ (be sure and include the apostrophe after the single first letter in this name) has a name that is very appropriate for a company based in the land of 10,000 lakes.
  6. 9. Northern Minnesota boasts deep lakes and streams, rocky ridges, thick forests, and the state’s highest point, Eagle Mountain. This area borders Lake _______ (opposite of inferior), the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area.
  7. 11. Minneapolis' skyway system is the world’s largest _____ (opposite of outdoor) network for pedestrian travel. It connects more than 70 city blocks for over 11 miles and protects pedestrians during harsh weather.
  8. 14. The state is home to the world’s largest _______ (a large gregarious waterbird with a long bill, an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish, and mainly white or gray plumage), which was erected at base of of the Mill Pond dam. The concrete statue, which was built in 1957 is situated in Pelican Rapids.
  9. 18. True of False Minnesota is the northern most of the lower 48 states
  10. 19. The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile (875 m) downstream from the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The bridge opened in 1967 and was Minnesota's third busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. It had a catastrophic failure during the evening _____ (very busy with people headed home after work)hour on August 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The NTSB cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse, noting that a too-thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets, and additional weight on the bridge at the time contributed to the catastrophic failure.
  11. 20. Minnesota is the Sioux ____ (group of letters) for "cloudy water" or "sky-tinted water".
  12. 22. Minnesota produces more ____ (animal similar to chicken but bigger) each year than there are people in California. Of course Thanksgiving is the most popular time of year for eating this bird.
  13. 25. Lake Wobegon was the fictional community in Garrison Keiler's A ________ (word for flat grassland) home companion series of books and radio shows. The opening words of the monologue usually were "Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out there on the edge of the prairie." He would often say that Lake Wobegon was called "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve." The closing words of the monologue were "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." Lake Wobegon is portrayed as the seat of Mist County, Minnesota,[8] a tiny county near Minnesota's geographic center that supposedly does not appear on maps because of the "incompetence of surveyors who mapped out the state in the 19th century": the surveyors worked inward from the state's boundaries, and when they reached Lake Wobegon, had no room left for it on the map. The radio show had an amazing run (from July 6, 1974 – September 2, 2016).
  14. 26. Minnesota's state bird is the ___ (rhymes with tune but starts with L)
  15. 27. The _______ mall in America is located in Minnesota. The "Bloomington Mall of America" is 9.5 million square feet or the size of 78 football fields!The mall reopened after lock downs with around 150 of the mall's 500 stores open for business. As of this month, about 85% of stores have now reopened but there are very few customers.
  16. 28. The far southeastern part of the state is the only area that wasn’t affected by _____ (rivers of ice) during the last ice age. It has stream-cut valleys, caverns, and high bluffs.
  17. 29. I guess people got tired of walking around _____ (bodies of water) since they have thousands of them and wanted to learn to walk on water. They failed at walking on water but did develop the sport of waterskiing in 1922.
  18. 30. Another interesting fact about Minnesota is that that it has the largest number of _____ (demonination based on the work of Martin Luther) of any state in the country.
  19. 33. Minnesota is home to over 69,200 miles of rivers and streams across the state, which is enough water to circle the equator almost _______ (the distance around the equator is about 25,000 miles) times!
  20. 37. Minneapolis is considered the coldest major city in the U.S. with an average of 24 _____ (below 0 degress farenheit) days each year. That means they don't consider any of Alaska cities to be major cities.
  21. 40. One hundred and fifty miles north of Minneapolis, city in Minnesota is a deep seaport located about 180 miles from the Atlantic Ocean,