Q 01/05

What is the fair's famous slogan?

A) The Biggest Fair in the North

B) The Great Minnesota Get-Together

C) Minnesota's Twelve Best Days

D) The People's Fair

Answer · why

B) The Great Minnesota Get-Together

By average daily attendance it is the largest state fair in the United States, and by total attendance second only to Texas, whose fair runs twice as ...

Q 02/05

The fairgrounds sit in which small city between Saint Paul and Minneapolis?

A) Roseville

B) Maplewood

C) Columbia Heights

D) Falcon Heights

Answer · why

D) Falcon Heights

The site is next door to the University of Minnesota's Saint Paul campus and was chosen partly because it was politically neutral ground between the t...

Q 03/05

The fair runs for twelve days each year and always ends on which holiday?

A) Labor Day

B) Memorial Day

C) Independence Day

D) Columbus Day

Answer · why

A) Labor Day

It has been twelve days long since 1975; it ran only six days from 1885 to 1918.

Q 04/05

The record annual attendance, set in 2019, was roughly how many people?

A) 1.2 million

B) 3.4 million

C) 2.1 million

D) 900,000

Answer · why

C) 2.1 million

The single-day record of 270,426 was set on the second Saturday in 2018.

Q 05/05

The first state fair was held in 1859. What had happened the year before?

A) The Civil War began

B) Saint Paul was founded

C) The railroad reached Minneapolis

D) Statehood was granted

Answer · why

D) Statehood was granted

A Territorial Fair had already been held in 1854, five years earlier.