Okay - We are still missing Team PA's answers to Assignment #2, but we'll post everybody else's answers.  Everybody did a nice job.

Team Oakland Township:

	QUESTION	TEAM OT’S ANSWER	INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
1.	In the 1830’s, this town was known as “Porkopolis.”	Cincinnati, Ohio	Correct
2.	Which Frank Lloyd Wright home is located on Bear Run, Pennsylvania?	Falling Water	Correct
3.	Who invented the rear-view mirror, and for what occasion was it invented?  Extra point if you can tell us why it was invented.	Dorothy Lefitt – for women to see behind them while dirving in traffic.  1st use – mounted on Ray Harroun’s Marmon race car in the inaugural Indy 500 in 1911.	Correct
4.	What does the name Illinois mean?	A confederacy of American Indians	Incorrect.  It was later used to describe a confederacy of American Indians, but it’s meaning is Algonquin for “tribe of superior men”.
5.	Which state produces 1/10 of the nation’s food supply?	Iowa	Correct
6.	Who owns the Green Bay Packers?	Green Bay Packers, Inc.	Correct.  The Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned pro sports team.
7.	What state’s name comes from the Dakota word for “sky-tinted water” and/or “somewhat clouded water”?	Minnesota	Correct
8.	Which state’s capital was originally named “Lancaster”, and why was it later renamed?	Nebraska – to try and stop the shift of the state capitol away from Omaha	Correct
9.	Is the Detroit River a “river”?	No – a strait in the Great Lakes System	Correct
10.	Where will the 2012 Taylor Family Reunion be held?	ANSWER REDACTED

Team Grand Rapids:

	QUESTION	TEAM GR’S ANSWER	INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
1.	Where is the world’s largest basket?	Newark, Ohio	Correct
2.	Who was “the only bachelor president of the United States” and where was he born?	James Buchanan, Cove Gap, Pennsylvania	Correct
3.	Ball State University was founded using money from the manufacture and sale of what product?	Ball Jars!  Glass canning jars.	Correct
4.	Where is the world’s largest public library?	Library of Congress, Washington, DC.	Incorrect.  Chicago, Illinois.
5.	What happened during a performance at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Monies, Iowa on January 20, 1982?	Ozzy Ozbourne bit the head off a bat.	Correct. He thought it was rubber.  It wasn’t.  The bat was alive and it managed to bite Ozzy during the incident.
6.	What state is the home of the oldest operating velodrome?  And what the heck is a velodrome, anyway?	Wisconsin – the velodrome is an arena for track cycling.	Correct
7.	Which state had the highest percentage of voter turnout for the 2008 U.S. presidential election?	Minnesota	Correct
8.	What does it mean to say that Nebraska is a “triply landlocked state”?	Nebraska does not border the ocean, nor any of the states it borders, nor any that they border.	Correct
9.	Who is attributed with saying “History is bunk”?  What was the significance of the phrase “Bunkie is history”?	Henry Ford, the incident that paved the way for Iacocca to be president of Ford.  A big piece of Detroit history.	Correct.  Henry Ford said, "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today.”  (Chicago Tribune, 1916.) After Bunkie Knudsen was fired as President of the Ford Motor Company in 1969 by Henry Ford II, someone in the Ford public relation’s department said that “Henry Ford once said that ‘history is bunk,’ but today, Bunkie is history,” according to Lee Iacocca.
10.	Where will the 2012 Taylor Family Reunion be held?	ANSWER REDACTED

Team Stony Creek:

	QUESTION	TEAM SC’S ANSWER	INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
1.	Which river has caught fire 13 times since 1868?	Cyanobacteria River, Ohio	Incorrect.  Cuyahoga River in Ohio
2.	The Kinzua Bridge State Park is located in these two townships, and showcases what was formerly the highest and longest railway bridge in the world.	Hamlin and Keating, Pennsylvania	Correct
3.	Where was the first successful goldfish farm in the United States started?	Martinsville, Indiana	Correct
4.	Where was Enrico Fermi’s first nuclear fission reactor located?	Chicago, Illinois	Correct.  It was at a squash court under the stadium at the University of Chicago.
5.	Who was the first president of the United States born west of the Mississippi?	Herbert Hoover, Iowa	Correct
6.	Where is Tombstone (maker of frozen pizzas) headquartered?	Now in Glendale, Illinois, but it was in Wisconsin	Correct
7.	What is the name of the fictional town (where “the children are all above average”) in Minnesota that is the setting of Garrison Keillor’s famous tales?	Woebegone, Minnesota	Correct
8.	Where and when was Kool-Aid invented?	Hastings, Nebraska	Partially correct.  Hastings, Nebraska in 1927
9.	A person in which state is never more than six miles from a natural water source or more than 85 miles from a Great Lakes shoreline?	Michigan	Correct
10.	Where will the 2012 Taylor Family Reunion be held?	ANSWER REDACTED

Team Traverse City:

	QUESTION	TEAM TC’S ANSWER	INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
1.	The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge crosses which river?	It flows over the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.	Correct
2.	King of Prussia and Jersey Shore are cities in this state.	Pennsylvania	Correct
3.	What did Studebaker originally make?	Wagons	Correct - Horse-drawn wagons
4.	Which way does the Chicago River flow, and why is this significant?	Away from Lake Michigan, towards the Mississippi, for the purpose of transportation.	Partially correct.  It flows out of Lake Michigan – backwards.  It used to flow into Lake Michigan, but its flow was reversed for sanitation reasons.
5.	What is the most prized exhibit at the Old Capitol Museum in Iowa City, Iowa?	Hayden Fry's original hairpiece.	Incorrect.  A collection of spittoons utilized in the Old Capitol Building.
6.	Anti-Communist crusader Joseph McCarthy represented which state in Congress?	Wisconsin	Correct
7.	Second only to Alaska, this state has the highest percentage of residents who ice fish.	Minnesota	Correct - (more than 36%)
8.	What is the only state in the nation with a unicameral legislature?	Nebraska	Correct
9.	In 1920, which radio station became the first in the United States to regularly broadcast commercial programs?	KDKA, Pittsburgh.	Incorrect - WWJ (AM) in Detroit
10.	Where will the 2012 Taylor Family Reunion be held?	ANSWER REDACTED

Team DC:

	QUESTION	TEAM GR’S ANSWER	INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
1.	Michigan and Ohio fought the bloodless Michigan-Ohio War in 1835 over this city.	Toledo, Oh	Correct
2.	Where is the Little League World Series held each summer?	Williamsport, PA	Correct
3.	The Pentagon, the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, the U.S. Treasury, and 14 other state capitals are made with this material?	Indiana limestone	Correct
4.	What do Ernest Hemmingway, Kathy Griffin, Dan Castelleneta, and Ray Kroc all have in common?	All born in Oak Park, Ill.	Correct.  They all graduated from Oak Park-River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois.
5.	Where did Jesse James and his gang first rob a train, and how did much did they make?	Adair, IA - $3,000.	Correct
6.	What state gave birth to the Republican Party?	Ripon, WI	Correct
7.	Who was Frances Ethel Gumm and where was she from?	Judy Garland, born in Grand Rapids, MN	Correct
8.	Which state has both the largest Czech-American and non-Mormon Dutch American populations in the nation?	Nebraska	Correct
9.	What is the significance of the zip code 48222?	Detroit, MI	Correct.  Any mail addressed to members of ships' crews that pass through the Detroit River can have mail delivered to them via The J.W. Westcott II, by addressing it "Vessel Name, Marine Post Office, Detroit, Michigan, 48222." The U.S. postal zip code 48222 is exclusive to the floating post office and its ship addressees. The mail will be delivered to the appropriate ships (mainly lake freighters) as they pass under the Ambassador Bridge.
10.	Where will the 2012 Taylor Family Reunion be held?	ANSWER REDACTED