  Resurget_cineribus Member Username: Resurget_cineribus Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2006 |
Question 1. What did the Detroit Tigers do in August of 1960 that had never been done before? Question 2. What is a Detroit woman from 1893 with the initials M.O. known for? Question 3. What Detroit building was the tallest in 1926? Question 4. What famous Detroiter had a street named after him and became the president of Detroit's first bank? Question 5. Where was the house of Detroit's first mayor located? Question 6. If you take the name of a Christmas Decoration and the word that is the opposite of bitter, what famous place and time in history will you discover? Question 7. Where was Detroit's first baseball park located? Question 8. What happened with the lions in August "75"? | ||
Detroitsuperfly Member Username: Detroitsuperfly Post Number: 72 Registered: 07-2005 |
Question 7. Where Comerica Park is. I don't have the slightest clue of the others. I'm looking forward to the answers | ||
Sarge Member Username: Sarge Post Number: 782 Registered: 10-2003 |
Question 8 Moved to the Silverdome? | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 179 Registered: 09-2007 |
Question # 3: Book Tower (Wikipedia works well in these situations). (Message edited by Detroitrise on October 04, 2007) | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1697 Registered: 08-2006 |
Question 6. Sugary tinsel? Sweet wreath? | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 180 Registered: 09-2007 |
Question # 4 is Elon Farnsworth, who found what is now the shitty Comerica Bank. | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1343 Registered: 06-2005 |
#7 Detroit's first baseball park is on what is now Lafayette Blvd just west of the East Grand Boulevard. I think it is at Helen Street. | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1344 Registered: 06-2005 |
#2 Marie Oliver or Olivier-Detroit's first woman police officer | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 188 Registered: 09-2007 |
#6 Garland (Ossian) Sweet...Ossian Sweet's embattled home on Garland Street? | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1345 Registered: 06-2005 |
#1 The Detroit Tigers traded coaches with the Cleveland indians | ||
Resurget_cineribus Member Username: Resurget_cineribus Post Number: 9 Registered: 10-2006 |
ANSWERS ANSWERS Question 1. What did the Detroit Tigers do in August of 1960 that had never been done before? Correct answer - Traded coaches mid - season with the Cleveland Indians. Question 2. What is a Detroit woman from 1893 with the initials M.O. known for? Correct Answer - Marie Oliver Question 3. What Detroit building was the tallest in 1926? Correct answer - Book Tower Question 4. What famous Detroiter had a street named after him and became the president of Detroit's first bank? Judge Augustus B. Woodward - Bank of Detroit Great Link: http://books.google.com/books? id=RH9FDeAyUJ4C&pg=PA856&lpg=P A856&dq=william+flanagan+detro it&source=web&ots=WafOk8pSU_&s ig=jnKwPhLfnUbIzyj2AT35TFic4MY #PPA854,M1 Question 5. Where was the house of Detroit's first mayor located? Correct Answer - House of General John R. Williams was located at the former Kresege location - Woodward at Grand River, Mid 1800's Question 6. If you take the name of a Christmas Decoration and the word that is the opposite of bitter, what famous place and time in history will you discover? Correct Answer - Garland St. "Sweet" Ossian Sweet Question 7. Where was Detroit's first baseball park located? Correct Answer - On Brush Street Behind old Harper Hospital on 18 acres Question 8. What happened with the lions in August "75"? Correct Answer - Played first pre-game at Silverdome. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 793 Registered: 08-2007 |
That was fun, I didn't get any of them, well maybe half of one of them. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 248 Registered: 01-2007 |
Cool. |
