Wisconsin Good Sam Club Paper Game Results for 2012

WATERLESS RIVERS RIDDLE:   

What has rivers but no water, cities but no buildings, forests but no trees, deserts but no sand and mountains but no rocks?

ANSWER:   A map or atlas
WINNER: Diane Stolzman - #137

WORD SEARCH: Cruising Down the River - Answer: River Boat
WINNER: Marge Lindquist - #119
 
TRIVIA ANSWERS:

1. Q: Which gender of mosquitoes are responsible for those itchy mosquito bites (in other words, who sucks blood)? 
A: Females only. 

2. Q: Eggs are only laid in stagnant water.
A: True.

3. Q: The spread of the Bubonic Plague has been attributed to mosquitoes carrying the disease from one person to another.
A: False

4. Q: What is the biggest natural predator of mosquitoes?
A: Bats

5. Q: Why do mosquito bites itch?
A: Mosquito bites are mildly poisonous.

6. Q: How many eggs can a female mosquito lay in her lifetime?
A: 15,000 to 25,000

7. Q: Some people just naturally attract more mosquitoes than others.
A: true

8. What is the most effective repellent ingredient on the market?
A: DEET

9. How many different species of mosquitos are there?
A: 1,000 to 1,500

10. Q: Mosquitoes have the distinction of being the only insect that could disappear with no repercussions.
A: False

WINNER: Kathy Welcing - #227

CROSSWORD - WINNER: Shirley Michael - #178

Questions:

ACROSS:
 4. Before refrigerators, ice was harvested and stored in buildings covered with this.
 6. Wisconsin’s first state park.
 7. Mussels thought to be extinct until rediscovered in the St. Croix River in 1987.
 8. The Turkey Capital of Wisconsin.
13. The gorge with 200 foot high rock walls and unusual rock formations. 
14. Native Indians mainly lived on fish, game and this. 
15. Forests of this type provided the products that built the town along Lake St. Croix.

DOWN:

1. Dakota for St. Croix River.
2. The two rivers that make up the St. Croix Scenic River Way are St. Croix and this river?
3. The Chippewa’s secured this territory, making it safe for these.

5.  Turtles living along the St. Croix River whose population is considered threatened in Wisconsin.

9.  Famous Wisconsinite, Don Ameche, won an Academy Award for his performance in this movie.

10.  One of the earliest spring wildflowers.

11.  Workers that got the logs out of the wood and to the saw mills.

12.  The Loon capital of Wisconsin.

ANSWERS:
 

ACROSS:
4. Sawdust

6.  Interstate

7.  Winged maple leaf

8.  Boscobel

13. Dalles

14. Wild rice

15. White pine

DOWN:
1. Okizuwakpa 
2. Namekagon 
3. White settlers 
5. Blandings 
9. Cocoon 
10. Bloodroot 
11. Jacks 
12. Mercer 

MEDALLION HUNT - Jim & Kathy Welcing - #227: