On the road to Indiana: Take a Hoosier travel quiz

Summer road trips accessible from the campuses of Indiana University

By Jayne Spencer

(2) What red-haired rag doll was created in the early part of the 20th century by Indianapolis Star cartoonist John Gruelle?

(3) What city's east side has a “Millionaire's Row?” (Hint: From the 1870s to the 1890s, this IU campus city had more millionaires per capita than any place in the United States. It's also the city where IU alumnus Hoagie Carmichael recorded Star Dust.)

(4) What Hoosier community, not far from the IU South Bend and IPFW campuses, has one of the largest concentrations of round barns still in existence, hosts an annual egg festival and lays claim, so to speak, to the "world’s largest egg?"

(5) When the IU Opera Theater in Bloomington stages The Music Man July 7, 8, 13 and 14, a little boy playing the part of Winthrop Paroo will sing the praises of this northern Indiana corridor city and IU campus destination.

(6) What do the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City, the Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building in Lancaster, and the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indianapolis have in common?

(7) What distinguishes the Aqueduct Bridge in Metamora and the Ramp Bridge in Brown County?

(8) Poet Carl Sandburg said that this part of Indiana was “to the Midwest, what the Grand Canyon is to Arizona.”

(9) What three "queens" can be spotted from the riverbanks of this Hoosier city, the first in the state to illumine its city streets with gas lights and located only a gas tank's distance from IU campuses in Indianapolis, Bloomington and New Albany?

(10) A thriving steamboat industry, along with a range of complementary enterprises that included machine shops, foundries, cabinet and furniture factories, and silversmith shops, established this Hoosier city as the largest in the state by 1850?

Answers:

(1) Fort Wayne, the home of IPFW; Martone’s title was Seventh on Hitler's Lists: Indiana Stories.

(2) Raggedy Ann (and later, Andy)

(3) Richmond, home of IU East

(4) Mentone contends for the World's Largest Egg title with Winlock, Wash., America's second largest egg producing town until the 1950s. The Mentone egg is made of concrete, weighs 3,000 pounds and is about 10 feet high. It was originally constructed in 1946 to advertise the local egg festival and is inscribed with the words “The Eggbasket of the Midwest.”

(5) Gary, home of IU Northwest

(6) The three Indiana sites are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and are significant landmarks of the Underground Railroad. The Coffin House was known as the "Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad. Eleutherian College, built in the mid-19th century, was the first college in Indiana to admit students without regard to race or gender. Bethel AME is 160 years old, originated as a small abolitionist congregation meeting in a log cabin and was known as the Underground's "Indianapolis Station." Today it is known as the mother church of the African Methodist faith in Indiana.

(7) Of the more than 90 covered timbered bridges still remaining in the state, 23 are in south central Indiana, not far from IU Bloomington and IU Southeast. The Metamora Aqueduct Bridge is the only aqueduct covered bridge in the world. The Ramp Bridge is the only double-tunnel covered bridge in the state and one of only four in the nation.

(8) The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, covering 15,000 acres along 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, is within easy distance of at least four IU campuses.

(9) The American Queen, the Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen are steamboats that have become legendary sights along this Ohio River Valley town of Madison.

(10) New Albany, home of IU Southeast