The 19th (Illinois), 21st (Washington, DC), and 22nd (Kansas) State challenge trivia quiz meet-ups were so much fun! Looking forward to the next #StateChallenge on Texas on December 19th!
We have changed our format for the #StateChallenge meet-ups starting with Kansas. We are now learning during the meet-ups about the states through answers on a Bingo board!
The list of attendees AND the recap is provided by those who participated in the meet-up via a Google form. It’s very exciting to have YOU who attended the meet-up to write the recap!!!
Illinois November 7, 2020 |
Queen - @SilvyC 2nd - @jayasimha78 3rd - @Tushar_Suradkar Guest Host - @Erna_LaBeau Attendees - @Denise_Barlock @Tushar_Suradkar @JeroenM @JaneBurunina @SilvyC @jayasimha78 @Rk151 |
|---|---|
Washington, DC November 21, 2020 |
King - @PeteMHW 2nd - @Erna_LaBeau 3rd - @JaneBurunina Guest Host - @SP31 Attendees - @JaneBurunina @Rk151 @PeteMHW @Erna_LaBeau @SilvyC |
Kansas December 5, 2020 |
King - @Tushar_Suradkar - What? The winner was declared in a second game after the questions/answer portion was complete. Court - @kasunaaa @JaneBurunina @JordanSB Guest Host - @Tushar_Suradkar Attendees - @Shreeish @kasunaaa @JaneBurunina @PeteMHW @jayasimha78 @Erna_LaBeau @Rk151 @Kashifmisidia |
Did you have a favorite question? |
- How many of the ten tallest buildings in the US are in Chicago? - How many steel plates make up “The Bean” sculpture in Chicago! - The one about the catsup bottle. - The answer of 61!!! - I liked the quirky history questions - like the one about the private cinema in the White House. - The one about the bathrooms in the White House, only 35!!! No way haha - How many movies… Carter watched… |
Did you find anything especially unique, fun, enjoyable, etc at this meet-up? |
- Was my first time, I had a lot of fun! - I’m very happy to meet you guys again!  - Thanks to these meet-ups I’m training my memory, of course sometimes I remember the answer and to the others who don’t, I have my notes, haha But principally I couldn’t laugh more. - It is always good to meet new attendees and their strategies  - Fun, unique, and enjoyable all the time - Learned bingo - fun - It was a lot of fun to play Bingo! - I enjoy meeting people and getting to know people. - I like every one of these meet-up series, I love Denise dancing, she is the best! - Very nice meetup! I love the warm vibe of it! - Fun and very educative meetup - Yes music was not playing Denise was dancing |
Thank you so much to the attendees for contributing to the screen captures!
ALL QUESTIONS/ANSWERS are sourced from the contributed articles on Connect!!!
Illinois Questions and Answers MEET-UP November 7th, 2020
How long or wide or how many? |
Famous Places |
Out of Control |
What about the buildings in Chicago? |
History |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
500 |
How many city blocks are in the Magnificent Mile in Chicago? |
What city is the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Hindu Place of Worship) located in? |
How many miles or km is the Chicago L? |
How many stories is the Willis Tower / Sears Tower? |
What is the official state snack food of Illinois? |
Answer |
13 blocks |
Bartlett, Illinois |
102.8 miles or 165.4 km |
110 stories |
Popcorn |
400 |
How many steel plates make up “The Bean” sculpture in Chicago, Illinois |
What do the faces on the Crown Fountain wall at Millennium Park spit out? |
How much does “The Flamingo”, Chicago’s Big Red Sculture weigh? |
What was the world’s first skyscraper at ten stories in Chicago built in 1885? |
What year was the first female African-American Senator was elected? |
Answer |
168 |
Water |
50 tons |
Home Insurance Building |
1992 |
300 |
What is the length of the Navy Pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan? |
What year did the Chicago L (metro) start? |
How tall is the world’s largest bottle catsup in Collinsville, Illinois? |
On one end of the Magnificent Mile is Lake Michigan. What building is on the other end? |
How many of the ten tallest buildings in the US are in Chicago? |
Answer |
3,000 feet |
1892 |
170 feet |
Wrigley Building |
FOUR - 4 |
Washington, DC Questions and Answers MEET-UP November 21st, 2020
How long or wide or how many? |
Famous Places |
Out of Control |
Memorials |
History |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
500 |
How much of the Washington Monument foundations is below ground? |
Who gifted the Japanese cherry trees to the city of Washington DC? |
How many bathrooms are in the White House? |
How much floor space is in the White House in feet or meters? |
How many movies did President Jimmy Carter watch in the White House? |
Answer |
21 feet |
Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo in 1912 |
35 bathrooms |
55,000 square feet or 5,100 square meters |
480 movies |
400 |
How long is the pond between the Lincoln Memorial and the National Monument? |
How tall is the statue of Lincoln in his memorial? |
What year did the first humans arrive at Washington DC? |
When was the Lincoln Memorial constructed? |
How many square miles is Washington DC? |
Answer |
One half mile – 1/2 |
19 feet |
10,000 BCE |
1923 |
68 square miles |
300 |
How many lines does the metro in Washington DC have? |
How many rooms are in the Capital building? |
What famous movie character is located among the gargoyles of the Washington National Cathedral? |
What memorial is between the Lincoln and Washington memorials? |
What year was the first Cherry Blossom Festival celebrated? |
Answer |
SIX (6) - Blue, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Silver |
540 |
Darth Vader |
World War II memorial |
1935 |
Kansas Questions and Answers MEET-UP December 5th, 2020
| Order and ANSWER | Question to Read |
|---|---|
| Call 1: 3 million | What is the population of Kansas? |
| Call 2: Topeka | What is the capital of Kansas? |
| Call 3: Hutchinson | What city is the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Museum in? |
| Call 4: Three | How many times did Kansas try to become a State? |
| Call 5: Karman line | What is the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space called? |
| Call 6: 1958 | What year did the world’s first Pizza Hut open in Wichita Kansas open? |
| Call 7: 100,000 | How many visitors a year does the Cosmosphere get a year? |
| Call 8: World War I | You can see planes from which world war in the Kansas Aviation Museum? |
| Call 9: Dodge City | What is the windiest city in the United States which is in Kansas? |
| Call 10: 36 billion | The wheat grown in Kansas could bake how many loaves of bread? |
| Call 11: Air Capital of the World | Because of the importance in the aircraft industry, Wichita is known as what? |
| Call 12: Boeing 777 | The dreamlifter carrier aircraft can carry the fuselage of what? |
| Call 13: Residence Inn | What hotel exceeded Tushar’s expectations in Wichita Kansas? |
| Call 14: Trade | What was Fort Riley built to protect along the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails? |
| Call 15: Wichita | What city is the Kansas Aviation Museum in? |
| Call 16: Cosmosphere | Which museum has the largest collection of original Russian spacecraft components in the world outside of Moscow? |
| Call 17: 12,000 | Kansas was named after an Indian tribe that lived in the region how many years ago? |
| Call 18: People of the South wind | Kansas was derived from what Indian Sioux meaning? |
| Call 19: 2,717 | How long is the largest grain elevator in the world - the DeBruce Grain elevator? |
| Call 20: 61 | What is the average number of tornadoes in Kansas each year? |
| Call 21: Flatter than a pancake | How do people often describe Kansas? |
| Call 22: Every half hour | How often was Russian spacecraft orbiting the US skies during the cold war? |
| Call 23: 10,000 | How many spaceflight artifacts are in the Kansas Cosmosphere? |
| Call 24: Dr Goddard’s Lab | What is one of the Cosmosphere’s four venues? |
| Call 25: Schlitterbahn | What is the name of the waterslide in Kansas which is taller than Niagara Falls? |
#STATECHALLENGE BINGO EXPLAINED:
- Everyone will be given a link to their own personal randomized card with #StateChallenge answers at the time of the game
- The Guest Host will read a question
- As a group, the answer is determined in the chat window.
- After EVERYONE knows the answer, each player looks at their online Bingo card to see if the answer is on their card. The player will mark their online Bingo card if the answer is found.
- Questions will continue to be read until someone becomes the winner. The winner will either be determined by the first person to fill their card or able to create a straight line of 5 on their card. Which way to play will be told to everyone before the game begins.
Here is a YouTube with an explanation of Bingo and here for a history of Bingo.
WHY WE CHANGED FORMATS: We wanted to change the meet-ups to
- make it easier for non-native English speakers
- provide an element of chance to determine the winner
- enable us to easily scale to larger audiences
- encourage everyone to actively participate
************************************************ NOTICE: ALL meet-up URLs will ONLY be provided from the #Statechallellenge Google Group. If you want to attend a #StateChallenge meet-up, you MUST join https://groups.google.com/g/local-guide-statechallenge where the meet-up URLs will be posted. To be approved as a member of the group, you MUST provide your Connect ID
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What is our #StateChallenge meet-up schedule through the end of the year!
State |
Meet-up |
|---|---|
| Texas - Guest Host - @Erna_LaBeau | 12/19/2020 |
| Christmas & New Year traditions around the WORLD! - Guest Host - @SilvyC | 01/03/2021 |
Want to be a #StateChallenge guest host? Or know someone who should be? Let us know!
This post is part of the #StateChallenge organized by @Kwiksatik and @Denise_Barlock. If you want to find out more, check out this post. You can also find other submissions by searching the #StateChallenge hashtag
