
Are you a king or queen of Buckeye lore? Here’s your chance to find out, with a series of questions to test your knowledge of Ohio history. The first two MyHometownOhio readers to send the correct answers to info@preservationohio.org will receive a set of the new Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites minicards. Please include your name and e-mail address in your entry.
The answers will appear next week.
1. Early Ohio settlers built log cabins with a mixture of clay or mud strengthened with straw to cement the logs. What is this building method called?
2. In 1934, this department store was the first to use air conditioning.
3. Who was said to have boasted, “I’m just a lucky slob from Ohio?”
4. What university fraternity built a four-mile banana split – the world’s longest – in 1985?
5. There are at least ten world capital names shared by Ohio cities. Can you name them?
6. What Ohio city saw the invention of disposable diapers, refrigerator door shelves, Play-doh and Preparation H?
7. Harley Warrick of Belmont was known for what significant Ohio art project?
8. What former Ohio Governor determined that United States currency would be the color green?
9. Which Ohio county has the most bordering counties?
10. Who was “Calico Charlie?”
11. In 1972, this Cleveland woman was ordained at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and became the first female rabbi in the United States.
12. What is the claim to fame of “Hanger 18” at Wright-Patterson US Air Force Base?
13. In 1930, Albrecht Grocery in Akron made 100,000 cookies stamped with a picture of Peter Rabbit for the first example of this fundraising phenomenon. What were they?
14. In 2006, this church in Columbus was the location for the election of the first primate in the worldwide Anglican Communion in its 400-plus-year history.
15. Before his dynamic career as a militant abolitionist, what was John Brown’s occupation during his residency in Akron?

