User:Esprqii/OHS Quiz/OHS Quiz answers
Help answer each question with as many wikilinks as possible, using only Wikipedia.
1. Why did the state sponsor a rock concert along the banks of the Clackamas River on a hot August weekend in 1970?
- Vortex I – to distract the hippies from protesting Nixon!
- OregonEncyclopedia
Done
- Wikipedia
Done
- OregonEncyclopedia
2. What Oregon politician ran for vice president in 1860 as a pro-Southern sympathizer?
- Joseph Lane
- OE
Not done (no article yet)
- WP
Additional information needed (In a cited section, but could have more detail on the campaign and the effect on Lane's career)
- OE
3. Who is Oregon's only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction writing?
- H. L. Davis for Honey in the Horn, 1936
- OE
Additional information needed (uncited, and the book actually won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel; the Fiction award replaced it in 1948)
- WP
Additional information needed (The answer is out there, but the "only Oregon winner" part is not mentioned.)
- OE
4. What was "Oshu Nippo" and who read it?
- Japanese language newspaper published in Portland
- OE
Done (good article, though no citations)
- WP
Not done (need an article)
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5. What Oregon singer did Tony Bennett call "the father of rock 'n' roll"?
- Poor old Johnnie Ray
- OE
Done
- WP
Done (but doesn't mention the Bennett quote)
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6. Why did Simon Benson pay for 20 public drinking foundations in Portland?
- From a somewhat weasely sentence in the Benson article: "It is said that the fountains were put in to dissuade workers on his hotel from going to a bar to get a drink of water and then decide on an alcoholic beverage instead."
- OE
Not done (no article yet)
- WP
Done (The answer has been there for some time, but we still need a citation! Maybe OHS could help with that, instead of lobbing insults?)
- OE
7. In 1900 1902, what Portland writer told the world about Sacagawea and made her a famous woman in Oregon history?
- Eva Emery Dye
- OE
Done
- WP
Additional information needed It's in the Sacagawea article, but was a little tough to find, since the OHS's quiz gave the wrong date! Could be expanded, and perhaps Dye needs an article.
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8. When was the last public execution conducted in Oregon?
- 1902
- OE
Done
- WP
Additional information needed (See Capital punishment in Oregon, answer not there yet, probably should be)
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9. What famous Oregon artist worked in the sign department of the Oregon State Motor Association?
- Charles Heaney
- OE
Done
- WP
Additional information needed (WP has an article on this person, but the OSMA info is not there.)
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10. What was the Roseburg blast of 1959?
- From a well-cited section of Roseburg, Oregon#The Roseburg Blast:
- On August 7, 1959, at approximately 1:00 am, the Gerretsen Building Supply Company caught fire. Firefighters soon arrived at the building, located near Oak and Pine street, to extinguish the fire. Earlier in the evening, a truck driver for the Pacific Powder Company, George Rutherford, had parked his explosives truck in front of the building, a fact which went unnoticed until shortly before the truck exploded, destroying buildings in an eight-block radius and severely damaging 30 more blocks.
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Not done (no article yet)
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Done
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