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Showing posts with label Trivia and Odd Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trivia and Odd Facts. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

So You Think You Know Florida?

What building, built in 1141, was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in Spain, dismantled and shipped to South Florida?



Answer to the last question:

The leasing of convicts to private contractors.  Congrats to Sophie for getting it right!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

So You Think You Know Florida?

What practice of the state prison was abolished in 1919?



Answer to the last trivia question is:
End's Rattlesnake Cannery and Reptilorium.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

So You Think You Know Florida?

I have LOTS of books on Florida...nature, critters, history, photography, etc...looking through some of them the other day, I've decided to put them to use and try to start a weekly trivia/odd fact post.  Yes, I know it's been done before (SophieMae!), but ya know...one can never learn too much about this truly awesome state we live in.

*drumroll, please*

So without further ado, may I present to you the first trivia question on a Florida Journal!

*cricket.....cricket....*

Uncomfortable silence fills the room


Yeah...well....ok, so it's not that big of a deal, but here it is:

What odd cannery in Arcadia was established in 1931 and moved near Port Tampa City in 1937?