July 16, 1907 Orville Clarence Redenbacher, the popcorn king, born in Brazil, Indiana.

July 16, 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate.

July 18, 1913 Richard Red Skelton, American comic, born in Vincennes.

July 20, 1969 Purdue graduate Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

July 21, 1921   Jean Shepherd was born in Chicago. He became a writer and actor who is most famous for co-writing and narrating the movie The Christmas Story which was based upon his childhood in Hammond, Indiana.

Our Where in Indiana from last week was of Becks’s Mill in

Last week, we inadvertently stated “About 450 members of the Harrison Home Guard waged battle with over 2,400 Confederate soldiers under General John Hunt Morgan.  The ‘Battle of Corydon’ was the only Civil War conflict on Indiana soil.” It was indeed the only battle fought on Indiana soil, not the only conflict.

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Indiana Quick Quiz

1. Meaning “valley of paradise” in Spanish, what is the name of both a college and town in Indiana?

2. The University of Cambridge offered the first degree in computer science but what Midwestern university had the country’s first computer science department?

3. Author John Green set his 2012 bestseller, “The Fault in Our Stars,” in what city that is also Green’s hometown?

4. Indiana produces what percent of the nation’s popcorn?

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Original painting by Red Skelton at the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy in Vincennes.

Answers

1. Valparaiso

2. Purdue

3. Indianapolis

4. 20%