I'm surprised that it has never snowed in July in Minneapolis. Most places in North America that are that far north have had freak weather in July, especially in 1816, which was known as "The Year Without a Summer".
'At the Church Family of Shakers near New Lebanon, New York, Nicholas Bennet wrote in May 1816, "all was froze" and the hills were "barren like winter". Temperatures went below freezing almost every day in May. The ground froze on June 9. On June 12, the Shakers had to replant crops destroyed by the cold. On July 7, it was so cold that everything had stopped growing. The Berkshire Hills had frost again on August 23, as did much of the upper northeast.'
I was quite surprised too, but one thing I realized is that it’s also relatively flat. No real mountains to speak of, and the Great Lakes likely temper the climate a little. Any moisture that comes off the lakes typically goes east towards the Atlantic.
The record low temperature for Minneapolis in July is 43 °F, so it's not even particularly close. It also has never snowed in Minneapolis in June or August. In fact, since records have been kept, it has never snowed in the entire state of Minnesota in July or August, and only very rarely in June. (Most recent 1998).
Keep in mind that Minneapolis was founded in 1867 so we can't consider temperatures from the ice age or something.
That's the only one I missed. I was very unsure of the answer... but... I live in Northern Virginia and we've had snow in my lifetime as late as mid-May and as early as mid-September, so, didn't seem terribly far-fetched.
(we've also had blizzards in late March and heat waves around Christmas; the joys of mid-Atlantic temperate-zone living)
I’m just going to throw this out there… the Maine question feels a little tricky. It was part of Massachusetts during the 13 Colonies days, which was one of the original colonies. I know it’s false, but making a mistake would be so easy since its landmass is included in maps of the 13.
I was pretty confident that Henry Ford did "invent" the automobile, like when I google it, that's what some still say. Like semantics of people having things prior, but this is like inventor of video game isn't Atari, but was the inventor of the video game/car as we know it today.
Def would expect Minneapolis to have snow in July, guess that's like I know you could ski in July in some mountains but didn't technically snow in city.
I know germans have communities back east, would have thought Germany had a colony but guess "technically" didn't have colony just a ton of germans.
Ford was the first to use a production line to make cars much easier, quicker, and therefore cheaper, so more people were able to buy one. The first car was made in 1886 by Carl Benz, 22 years prior to the Model T Ford.
It's interesting you've bought up Atari because whilst Atari's Pong might be what kickstarted a video game craze it would be very inaccurate to claim Atari or anyone working there invented it.
A company called Magnavox released a game called Table Tennis on their own system (the Odyssey) a months before Pong which was extremely similar to Pong, so much so that they actually sued Atari when Pong proved a success, forcing Atari to pay a $1.5 million licensing fee to Magnavox as compensation. The guy who created Table Tennis (Ralph Baer) is commonly thought of as the father of video games, not anyone that worked for Atari.
The Cuba question was a little vague. I wasn't sure if it meant the island of Cuba or the nation of Cuba. I took it to mean the country and answered FALSE. The island was territory of Spain at the time of the invasion.
No man has set foot on the moon. If you are convinced by that crappy studio footage than I also have beach front property in Arizona to sell you. Near the Sea of Tranquility in fact...
Should have used some better common sense. If Ulysses S Grant had a brother who was also a general, I think I would have heard about it by now. I thought it was a trick question. Ya got me.
'At the Church Family of Shakers near New Lebanon, New York, Nicholas Bennet wrote in May 1816, "all was froze" and the hills were "barren like winter". Temperatures went below freezing almost every day in May. The ground froze on June 9. On June 12, the Shakers had to replant crops destroyed by the cold. On July 7, it was so cold that everything had stopped growing. The Berkshire Hills had frost again on August 23, as did much of the upper northeast.'
Keep in mind that Minneapolis was founded in 1867 so we can't consider temperatures from the ice age or something.
(we've also had blizzards in late March and heat waves around Christmas; the joys of mid-Atlantic temperate-zone living)
Def would expect Minneapolis to have snow in July, guess that's like I know you could ski in July in some mountains but didn't technically snow in city.
I know germans have communities back east, would have thought Germany had a colony but guess "technically" didn't have colony just a ton of germans.
A company called Magnavox released a game called Table Tennis on their own system (the Odyssey) a months before Pong which was extremely similar to Pong, so much so that they actually sued Atari when Pong proved a success, forcing Atari to pay a $1.5 million licensing fee to Magnavox as compensation. The guy who created Table Tennis (Ralph Baer) is commonly thought of as the father of video games, not anyone that worked for Atari.
Out of the remaining 10, I got 2 correct. Some good luck. (.____.)