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Answer: Miss Forward statue atop the Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Miss Forward has stood atop the State Capitol Building since 1914. Originally called Wisconsin, the more familiar name has evolved. It is the highest point in the City of Madison.

Answer: Eating 18,000+ Big Macs

Gorske had consumed over 18,000 Big Macs by 2008. He worked as a prison guard at Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun. He reportedly had a Big Mac in forty eight states and received by mail Big Macs from Alaska and Hawaii. Also, he received Macs from the Grand Canyon, every major league baseball stadium, every National Football League Stadium, and NASCAR track.

He missed eight days of eating Big Macs due to travel or blizzards. In 2010, Gorske stood six feet two inches, weighed 179 pounds, and his cholesterol was about 140.

Answer: Establishment of the Republican Party

As a result of the political compromises, such as the Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise, thirty men met in a schoolhouse in Ripon and put together what was to become the Republican Party. The core issue was slavery and the group did not want further compromises on the issue.

Later that year, similar meetings were held in Jackson, Michigan, Exeter, New Hampshire, and Crawfordsville, Iowa. Each claims to be the birthplace of the Republican Party. However, historians give the recognition to Ripon. The Ripon Society, a conservative research group, takes its name from Ripon, WI.

Answer: Jockey

The company began weaving woolen socks, but found a market for long underwear popular during that time. When these fell out of style, in 1934 the company came out with briefs. In 1972, the company was renamed Jockey International, a term believed to be derived from the athletic jockstrap.

Although it no longer has a plant in Kenosha, its corporate headquarters remains. Jockey is licensed to many garment manufacturers around the world who commit to Jockey's standards.

Answer: Gaylord Nelson

Nelson was sickened by how shabbily people treated the earth they live on. The oil spills, polluted waters, reckless deforestation, and smog in the air were all issues that troubled him.

He said: "I am convinced that all we need to do to bring an overwhelming insistence of the new generation that we stem the tide of environmental disaster is to present the facts clearly and dramatically. To marshal such an effort, I am proposing a national teach-in on the crisis of the environment to be held next spring on every university campus across the Nation. The crisis is so imminent, in my opinion, that every university should set aside 1 day in the school year-the same day across the Nation-for the teach-in."

Answer: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

Lunt purchased land in the area where he grew up. He was a bit of a gentleman farmer and prided himself on his home-grown vegetables, fresh churned butter, and his cattle raising. Show business people flocked to Ten Chimneys. Eugene O'Neill wrote "Strange Interlude" there.

Helen Hayes stayed a month each year. Other visitors included Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, and Carol Channing among others. After the death of Lunt in 1977 and Fontanne in 1983, Ten Chimneys became a museum and was completely restored in 2003. Each room is setup like a stage production.

Answer: Longest cross-country ski race in North America

The "Birke" runs from Cable to Hayward. Seven thousand skiers participate. About 200-300 hundred are professionals and the rest made up of mostly recreational cross-country skiers. The term 'birkebeiner' refers to Norwegians who made shoes out of the bark of birch trees.

In 1206, a group called birkebeiners rescued the Norwegian king's son during an era of civil unrest. For this reason, some skiers in the race carry an eighteen pound backpack in remembrance of that occasion.

Answer: The Gideon Society who place Bibles in hotel rooms

In 1899, a group of traveling salesmen staying at the Boscobel Hotel lamented that their need to travel made their religious observances difficult. They conceived the idea of placing Bibles into hotel rooms. The concept caught on. It is estimated that 1.5 billion Bibles have been placed in hotel rooms around the world in 191 countries, and in 80 different languages.

The Boscobel Hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Answer: It occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire

The Peshtigo Fire covered 1.5 million acres and cost 2400 lives. The body count was more than four times that of the Chicago fire.

Answer: 1919

By 2010, the Green Packers had won nine NFL championships and three Super Bowls. Twenty six Packers had also been elected to the NFL Hall of Fame by the early 21st century. Season tickets have been passed on from one generation to another.