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SS26 - Illinois · The Ultimate Trivia Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to our state series, celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S.A. Today, we are in our home state, Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe it was Gallagher, the comedian who once said that Illinois is the only state with the words ill and annoying in it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: That plays.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Can't tell.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And then he smashed the water.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Great.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Gallagher.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kelly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's our capital?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Springfield, springfield.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Springfield.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Springfield.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Springfield is correct.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Sims.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Brian.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What rotating engineering Marvel debuted as America's new as America's answer to the Eiffel Tower.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Whoa, rotating marble.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Do you like it?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Rotating?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you like it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you ride it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think big.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you like it?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're everywhere now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Do you like it?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sure, Swil.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Very good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: OK, Andy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What bright, red bird chosen by Illinois school children is the official state bird of Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: that would be the cardinal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes it is to be specific.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the northern cardinal.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We knew that.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: We are without saying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have discussed this recently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know, but we are one of multiple states who have the cardinal as their
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, number four, Nicholas, located at 8th and Jackson Streets in Springfield, what Greek Revival style residence is preserved as the only home the 16th U.S. President ever purchased.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Lincoln's House, that we're talking about, this is the log cabin.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: like there's like a living room because of Lincoln's home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's Lincoln home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's very good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Look at that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Has anybody been?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've all taken our children up there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It is small bed.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's two weeks of there and didn't go.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's by the time I got on my training, everything was closed.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I've lived 80 minutes from it for 47 years.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I like that kind of stuff.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I need to go.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, next up where did we leave off?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scott's up next.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what crunchy snack pushed into official status by elementary school students again from Juliet is the state snack food of Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, anybody got anything on this and I'm thinking Cracker Jack, but I don't know what she's snack thinking goldfish Maybe no crunchy snacks Cracker Jack is in the right lane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a little more in favor of corn and it's popcorn.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, just popcorn.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Okay
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  [SPEAKER_04]: What was the fact about that?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It was invented here?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it was pushed into official status by elementary school students from Juliet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the official sneak, official state snack food.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, there's no, I mean, I don't know that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we love that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Brian, he's popcorn by the thumbs up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about the quarter-eighths in water.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: By the garbage bag.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kelly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kelly?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What oddball prehistoric creature found in Illinois rock beds became the official state fossil of Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I did not know this.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Oddball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oddball prehistoric creature found in Illinois rock beds.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I get it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's dollar.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A trillabyte.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is the tooling monster.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So what I said?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The tooling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What did you tell?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Toolie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The tooling monster looks like somebody let a squid, a vacuum hose, and a fever drain collaborating.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: What fever?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: That's good.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I've had that dream.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It was a ride.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you're here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Brian.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What deadpan comedy legend was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Wilmet, Illinois starring in movies like Ghostbusters.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's Bill Murray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, very good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know he said deadpan.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, really.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, very good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know he's a Chicago guy.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's deadpan, you know.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I love his family.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: his sons and assistant coach that you come in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that is right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Did I skip somebody?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: No, it's Andy's turn.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Andy.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: You.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What comic book hero is celebrated in Metropolis Illinois with a giant statue and a long running hometown festival.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Better than Batman, Superman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is correct.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Has anybody been to the Superman festival?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: No, I've not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's so fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't, you should just, I mean, I guess I'm probably overhyping in a little bit, but it's exactly what you think it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like a homecoming, Miss Goudal.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know what I think it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a fest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a fest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They close the streets down and they have They sell lots of Superman merch.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can not even imagine.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Been to the Apple Festival and Murphy's were all with Captain Apple sauce.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, now that is not I'm not going to any of these things for it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's all real.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's all Apple butter festival like Chester's got Popeye.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Big time everywhere.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Nick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What state historic site near Collinsville preserves the remains of the largest pre-Columbian city of North Mexico?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Good John Ford.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Cookie amounts that we're doing though.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is what we're talking.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: All right, good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good job.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Scott.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Question 10.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a massive feat of civil engineering completed in 1900, what natural waterway did Illinois engineers permanently reverse so that it flowed away from Lake Michigan instead of into it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Into Lake Logan.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So I've heard this before away from Lake Michigan.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: way from it, this stuff, instead of into it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, the one they turn green, every, same patch we stay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Does Chicago River?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's it, okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They reverse the river to save the city's drinking water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, okay, well, thank you for exploring Illinois for with us for our state series celebrating the 250th birthday of the USA.
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