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Unread 10-17-2008, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Originally Posted by kuan View Post
Other questions:

Have you heard of Eelpout?
Do you dip your toast in coffee?
When is Leif Erickson day?
Are you proud of SPAM even though you don't eat it?
Where was the Kensington Runestone found?
  • Yes (I've seen one)
  • Yes, and also my Oreos in milk sometimes.
  • Who cares?
  • Yes. Hey, if Pythonesque Vikings can sing about it...
  • Kensington?
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Unread 10-17-2008, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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I scored 73% (higher than both of my parents), much better than my idaho born wife who only got 25%.

They could have asked:
Do you know how to pronounce Mille Lacs?
Do you know what lutefisk and lefse are?
Can you walk across the Mississippi?
  • How about Wayzata.
  • Bad, and very good with sweet butter.
  • I have.
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Unread 10-17-2008, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Rochester, MN
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I'm 0% Minnesotan. I guess living here for 15 years still hasn't made any impression on me.


Quote:
Originally Posted by kuan View Post
Other questions:

Have you heard of Eelpout?

Do you dip your toast in coffee?

When is Leif Erickson day?

Are you proud of SPAM even though you don't eat it?

Where was the Kensington Runestone found?
* nope
* nope
* nope
* Hate Spam
* The what?



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Originally Posted by Haakon View Post
I scored 73% (higher than both of my parents), much better than my idaho born wife who only got 25%.

They could have asked:
Do you know how to pronounce Mille Lacs?
Do you know what lutefisk and lefse are?
Can you walk across the Mississippi?
* nope
* lutefisk =something nasty and lefse =not too bad (if it's what I'm thinking it is)
* why walk when you can boat?
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Unread 10-18-2008, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Northern Minnesota
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I got 53 % and I'm from northern Minnesota.

This quiz should have been called "Are you from the Twin Cities?"
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Unread 10-18-2008, 09:21 PM
 
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It doesnt say anything about Ice Fishing, Pulltabs, Cold weather oddities, and others.
Oh well.
In Beverly Hills 90210, the girl says "we are from WAYzata Minnesota" They totally said it wrong. You think they would have done some research.

they could have said Shakopee, Mahotmedi, Orono....or other hard to say MInnesota towns.
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Unread 10-19-2008, 05:49 AM
 
Location: Minneeeesoootah
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I got 53 % and I'm from northern Minnesota.

This quiz should have been called "Are you from the Twin Cities?"
I agree. There were to many highway and speed limit questions. I live in a NW suburb and the only highways I drive frequently in town are to the MAO. Oh ya, that could have been a question. Do you refer to going into Mpls. or St.Paul, as going to town?
How about when you reply to a guestion with a drawn out, Yaaaah...sounds like saw, or well then.
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Unread 10-20-2008, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I think the general consensus is they should've left out the Minnesota road test exam questions and included more cultural, Minnesotan language quirks and other Minnesota-isms. It was a subpar exam at best.
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Unread 10-20-2008, 10:11 PM
 
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Originally Posted by sophocles_sarcophagus View Post
I got 53 % and I'm from northern Minnesota.

This quiz should have been called "Are you from the Twin Cities?"
Yah sure, You betcha.
I got 55% and I've been up nort here all my life.
Oh, and that's a VERY long time.
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Unread 10-22-2008, 07:29 AM
 
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Originally Posted by molochai2580 View Post
I'm 0% Minnesotan. I guess living here for 15 years still hasn't made any impression on me.




* nope
* nope
* nope
* Hate Spam
* The what?





* nope
* lutefisk =something nasty and lefse =not too bad (if it's what I'm thinking it is)
* why walk when you can boat?
I dont think many people can grasp the idea that you can actually WALK across the Mississippi where the river starts. Its like 20 ft wide and ankle deep. Compare that to around Missouri or Arkansas where the mighty Miss gets to be a nearly mile wide.
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Unread 10-22-2008, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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I dont think many people can grasp the idea that you can actually WALK across the Mississippi where the river starts. Its like 20 ft wide and ankle deep. Compare that to around Missouri or Arkansas where the mighty Miss gets to be a nearly mile wide.
There's actually an unofficial bridge across it right there.

It's particularly beautiful in the winter when you ski up there. On a nice sunshiny day you can ski down there, watch the otters pop up on the ice, roll up in a ball, and frolic on the ice.
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