The Stuck-at-Home, Whaddaya-Know-About-Maryland Quiz
Here’s another in an intermittent series of Baltimore and Maryland quizzes to test your knowledge of the city and state and to keep your brain in shape through Gov. Larry Hogan’s stay-at-home order during the coronavirus pandemic. Answers at the bottom. No peeking, OK?
1. Maryland is “America in Miniature” because it has a bit of everything. But what natural feature does it lack? a. A cave b. A lake c. A subarctic swamp
2. How high is Hoye-Crest on Backbone Mountain, the highest point in the state? a. 4,760 feet b. 3,360 feet c. 5,110 feet
3. What is an espantoon? a. Eastern Shore workboat b. Fort McHenry signal gun c. Baltimore police officer’s baton
4. Starting in the 19th Century and continuing for decades, the Chesapeake Bay saw violent skirmishes over what? a. Oysters b. Muskrat fur c. Goose feathers 5. What Maryland city was built by the federal government as a “model community” during the New Deal? a. Beltsville b. Greenbelt c. Columbia
6. What happened to Orioles manager Earl Weaver 94 times? a. Missed a team flight. b. Ejected from a game. c. Stopped for speeding.
7. What percentage of the Maryland vote did President Obama win when he carried the state by almost identical margins in 2008 and 2012? a. About 62 percent b. About 73 percent c. About 67 percent
8. Who was Sam Bogley? a. Maryland lieutenant governor, 1979-1983 b. Commander of Fort McHenry, 1814 c. Orioles catcher, 1985-1987
9. Who is Maryland’s current lieutenant governor? a. Rutherford Boyd b. Boyd Rutherford c. Rutherford B. Hayes
10. Musician David Byrne of Talking Heads fame graduated from what Baltimore County high school? a. Landsdowne b. Dulaney c. Hereford 11. Who was Roland “Fish” Powell? a. Orioles pitcher, 1970-1972 b. Mayor of Ocean City, 1985-1996 c. Baltimore blues singer
12. The Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens. The Browns of baseball became the Orioles, moving here from what city? a. Milwaukee b. Boston c. St. Louis
13. The late rapper Tupac Shakur attended the Baltimore School for the Arts in the1980s, becoming friends with what budding actress? a. Jada Pinkett Smith b. Mo’Nique c. Sandra Bullock 14. Conowingo, the name of a community and dam on the Susquehanna River, was the native Susquehannocks’ word for what? a. “Laundry place” b. “At the rapids” c. “Big wet thing”
15. Author of the groundbreaking “Silent Spring,” she earned a masters in zoology from Johns Hopkins University. a. Temple Grandin b. Erin Brockovich c. Rachel Carson
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