Perfect Duluth Day

Duluth Trivia Deck Sampler #4

From the Duluth Trivia deck I found in a game at Savers.

  1. How long has Duluth had a Symphony Orchestra?
  2. The DSSO produced opera annually for 26 years. Which conductor began this tradition and in what year?
  3. Where does the “concertmaster” of the DSSO sit?
  4. What year did “Fitger’s on the Lake” open?
  5. What year did the Fitger’s Brewery close?
  6. How many years was the old brewery in continuous operation?
  7. Who was Margaret Culkin Banning?
  8. Who said that “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Duluth”?
  9. Where in Duluth is the important collection of Eastman Johnson paintings housed?
  10. What was the Hjemkomst?

Answers:

  1. Since 1925.
  2. Hermann Herz in 1959 — anyone have memories to share?
  3. The first chair violin player — is this true for all orchestras?
  4. 1984
  5. 1972
  6. 115 years
  7. A Duluth author — anyone know the work?
  8. Mark Twain
  9. The Depot
  10. The sailing vessel Robert Asp built and his children sailed from Duluth to Bergen, Norway.