Mieska Trivia

Below is the 2006 Mieska Trivia game with answers. Each Christmas we have this contest to see who gets bragging rights for the year.

1. Name 3 Mieska family members who have biblical names or derivatives of biblical names:
(potential list:
Matthew, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Jeremiah, John, Zachary, Lucas, Joshua, Steven, Bethany, Ann, Jesse

2. What were the Red Devil and the Blue Devil?
Grandma & Grandpa Mieska’s CB handles from 1977-1981.

3. Whose bedroom had white and silver foil wallpaper and yellow carpet?
Ann’s room at the new brown house on Union Lake

4. Grandpa received approximately 20 of these at Christmas of 1984 (and lost them in a fire a few months later).
Ties

5. Who is the family’s pathological bee collector? Sue

6. Identify all the family members with names beginning with J:
Jeff, Josh, Jeremiah, Jonathan, Jesse, Julie

7. Who is the only member of the family that has never been to Mesa AZ? Chad

8. In 1988, Bonnie, Greg and their kids went on a trip with Ann and Jeff and their kids. Where did they go and how did they get there? Florida in Greg’s RV

9. Who played Santa in the Christmas production of Santa Goes Mod? Scott

10. Only one Great Grandchild has been born in MN Who? Nathaniel

11. What is the powdery substance you eat with an edible dipstick? Lik-M-Aid

12. Name all the current December birthdays:
Jer, Josh, Jeff, Jonathan, Whitney, Ben

13. Who played the role of Star Trek’s Lt. Scotty in a recent stage production?
Greg (last year’s company annual meeting skit…included costume!)

14. Who played the role of a gay Puerto Rican dancer on stage? Chad (A Chorus Line, 1989)

15. Name all the second borns:
Steve, Scott, Josh, Zach, Ben, Jonathan, Owen, Greg, Jeff, Gina, Whitney

16. What is the Little Brown Jub?
Trophy for winning horseshoes tournaments at Lake Jefferson

17. Which family member has had the opportunity to meet Firday Lady Laura Bush? Jesse

18. Which month currently has the most Mieska birthdays? December

19. Which month currently has the least Mieska birthdays?
Tie…May (Sue) September (Ann), October (Steve)

20. Name another resort or supper club on lake Jefferson besides Beaver Dam:
Summer Breeze, Hi-Lo, Greenland

21. Kranz’s long time cat’s name: Trouble

22. Kranz’s cocker spaniel’s name (from the 50-60s) Cocoa

23. Who owned the lake home 2 doors down from the Mieskas before the Deckers owned it? Cora & Porky Ford

24. How many bedrooms did Grandma Mieska have in hew new house on Union Lake? 4 or 5…ask Chad

25. Besides the lovely house with the porch for shaking rugs, what is Walnut Grove’s other claim to fame?
Setting of “Little House on the Prairie” or where “On the Banks of Plum Creek” was based.

26. There are several family members who have holiday (or lesser holiday) birthdays…Jeff & Ben on Christmas Eve. Name another… Owen on St Patricks Day Chad on Flag Day occasionally Easter on Scott or Bonnie’s

27. There are several family members who have a birthday a day off from an infamous date. (Infamous would be like Pearl Harbor Day or Hitler’s Birthday) Name one:
Jer (Dec 8) one day off Pearl Harbor day (Dec 7);
Ann (Sept 12) one day off 9/11; Bonnie (April 21) one day off day of OK City bombing, Columbine and Hitler’s birthday