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Today's 5-Minute Quest Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page. Good Luck!

BEGINNERS 1. The first Arbor Day was held in which state on this date in 1872? (hint: the answer is found on this page) 2. Haley Joel Osment was born on this date in what year? (hint: the answer is found on this page) 3. According to the Educational Paperback Association, as a young boy David Adler dreamed that a Major League scout would sign him to play for which baseball team? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page) Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author born on this date: DWIRT LADLE MAN

INTERMEDIATE 1. Which O. Henry story was published on this date in 1906? (hint: the answer is found on this page) 2. According to the Pulitzer Foundation, Joseph Pulitzer was a passionate crusader against what? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page) 3. According to the U.S. House of Representatives, after the Civil War Robert E. Lee served as president of what college? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page) Use all of these letters to spell the title of a Haley Joel Osment film (according to KidActors): DENY TALLER HU

EXPERT (hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page) 1. According to the U.S. House of Representatives, to what country did Lew Wallace serve as a minister? 2. According to the Gale Group, Dolores Huerta is the cofounder and first vice president of what organization? 3. According to the Library of Congress what was the original title of W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues"? Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1923 work of Kahlil Gibran (according to the Author's Calendar): H PROP TEETH

Lew Wallace Born on This Date 1827 [New Mexico Magazine]	Joseph Pulitzer Born on This Date 1847 [National Institutes of Health	Robert Burns Woodward Born on This Date 1917 [The Nobel Foundation]	Dolores Huerta Born on This Date 1930 [Washington University, St. Louis]	David Adler Born on This Date 1947 [Educational Paperback Association]

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1897	Eric Knight (English-American Journalist, Novelist: Author of Lassie Come Home)
1903	Clare Newberry (Oregon-born Children's Author, Illustrator)
1922	Harvey Weiss (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator)
1941	Martin Waddell (Northern Ireland Children's Author)
1947	David Adler (New York City-born Children's Author)
1952	Wendy Anderson Halperin (New York-born Children's Author, Illustrator)
1778	William Hazlitt (English Author)
1810	Benjamin H. Day (Massachusetts-born Printer, Journalist; Founder of The New York Sun)
1847	Joseph Pulitzer (Hungarian-American Publisher, Founder of the Pulitzer Prize)
1934	David Halberstam (New York City-born Author)
1941	Paul Theroux (Massachusetts-born Author)
1949	Gregory Nava (California-born Latin-American Screenwriter)
1855	Jacob Fjelde (Norwegian-American Sculptor)
1838	Frank Baldwin (Connecticut-born Inventor; Known for the Monroe Calculator)
1917	Robert Burns Woodward (Massachusetts-born 1965 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
1794	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (Rhode Island-born American Military Leader)
1806	Leonidas Polk (North Carolina-born Confederate General)
1583	Hugo Grotius (Dutch Jurist, Scholar; Wrote "On the Law of War and Peace")
1735	Button Gwinnett (English-American Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia)
1827	Eliza Bryant (North Carolina-born African-American Nursing Home Advocate in Cleveland, Ohio)
	Lew Wallace (Indiana-born Statesman, Military Leader, Author of Ben Hur)
1882	Frances Perkins (Boston-born U.S. Secretary of Labor)
1908	William Booth (English Founder of the Salvation Army)
1930	Dolores Huerta (New Mexico-born Latin-American Labor Leader)
1868	George Arliss (English Actor)
1915	Harry Morgan (Michigan-born Actor, Colonel Potter in M*A*S*H)
1921	Chuck Connors (New York-born Actor)
1926	Junior Samples (Georgia-born County Music Performer)
1929	Max von Sydow (Swedish Actor)
1932	Omar Sharif (Egyptian Actor)
1951	Steven Seagal (Michigan-born Actor)
1983	Ryan Merriman (Oklahoma-born Actor)
1984	Mandy Moore (New Hampshire-born Actress)
1988	Haley Joel Osment (Los Angeles-born Actor)
1936	John Madden (Minnesota-born Football Coach, Sportscaster)
1938	Don Meredith (Texas-born Football Player, Sportscaster)
879	Louis II, King of France
1813	Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Italian Mathematician)
1919	Emiliano Zapata (Leader of Mexican Peasants, Assassinated by Government Forces)
1931	Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese Poet)
1955	William Jacobsen (Iowa-born Member of the U.S. Congress)
1958	W. C. Handy (Alabama-born African-American Composer, Ragtime Songwriter)
1969	Harley Earl (California-born Designer of the Corvette)
1975	Marjorie Main (Indiana-born Actress)
1997	Michael Dorris (Kentucky-born Native-American Author)
2010	Lech Kaczynski (President of Poland: Killed in Plane Crash)
1633	The First Bananas in England Go on Sale in London
1768	Marqués de Rubí Recommends Reorganization of Spain's Mexican Frontier
1778	Commander John Paul Jones Sets Sail to Raid British Warships in the Irish Sea
1795	Missionary Priest, Father Jean Francois Rivet, Arrives in Vincennes, Indiana
1806	Lewis: We set out early and droped down the channel to the lower end of brant Island from whence we drew them up the rapid by a cord about a quarter of a mile which we soon performed; Collins and Gibson not having yet come over we directed Sergt. Pryor to remain with the cord on the Island untill Gibson arrived and assist him with his crew in geting his canoe up the rapid, when they were to join us on the oposite side at a small village of six houses of the Clah-clah'lahs where we halted for breakfast. in passing the river which is here about 400 yds. wide the rapidity of the currant was such that it boar us down a considerable distance notwithstanding we employed five oars. on entering one of these lodges, the natives offered us a sheepskin for sail, than which nothing could have been more acceptable except the animal itself. the skin of the head of the sheep with the horns remaining was cased in such manner as to fit the head of a man by whom it was woarn and highly prized as an ornament. we obtained this cap in exchange for a knife, and were compelled to give two Elkskins in exchange for the skin. this appeared to be the skin of a sheep not fully grown; the horns were about four inches long, celindric, smooth, black, erect and pointed; they rise from the middle of the forehead a little above the eyes. they offered us a second skin of a full grown sheep which was quite as large as that of a common deer. they discovered our anxity to purchase and in order to extort a great plrice declared that they prized it too much to dispose of it. in expectation of finding some others of a similar kind for sale among the natives of this neighbourhood I would not offer him a greater price than had been given for the other which he refused. these people informed us that these sheep were found in great abundance on the hights and among the clifts of the adjacent mountains. and that they had lately killed these two from a herd of 36, at no great distance from their village. we could obtain no provision from those people except four white salmon trout. at ten oclock Sergt. Pryor and Gibson joined us with Collins who had killed 3 deer. these were all of the blacktailed fallow kind. we set out and continued our rout up the N. side of the river with great difficulty in consequence of the rapidity of the current and the large rocks which form this shore; the South side of the river is impassable. as we had but one sufficient toerope and were obliged to employ the cord in geting on our canoes the greater part of the way we could only take them one at a time which retarded our progress very much. by evening we arrived at the portage on the North side where we landed and conveyed our bagage to the top of the hill about 200 paces distant where we formed a camp. we had the canoes drawn on shore and secured. the small canoe got loose from the hunters and went a drift with a tin vessel and tommahawk in her; the Indians caught her at the last village and brought her up to us this evening for which service we gave them a couple of knives; the canoe overset and lost the articles which were in her.—
1815	Indonesia's Tambora Volcano Sends Ash 20 Miles into the Atmosphere
1816	Congress Authorizes the Creation of a Second National Bank
1825	The Marquis de Lafayette Arrives in New Orleans
1833	First Homeopathic Medical Society, the Hahnemann Society, Is Organized in Philadelphia
1841	Horace Greeley Launches the New York Tribune
1845	Over 1,000 Buildings Damaged by Fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1849	Walter Hunt of New York City Receives U.S. Patent 6,281 for His Safety Pin
1861	26 Volunteers from Sauk County Depart for Madison to Become part of the First Wisconsin Infantry, Company F
1862	Florida's 1st Cavalry Captures 6 Union Soldiers, Kill 1, Near Amelia Island
	Union Forces Bombard Georgia's Fort Pulaski
1864	Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Accepts the Crown as Emperor of Mexico
1865	Crowds Serenade President Lincoln throughout the Day. He Makes Extemporaneous Speeches
	President Lincoln Asks That Flags and a Navy Sword Be Provided for His Son Tad
	Robert E. Lee Bids His Troops Farewell
1866	ASPCA Is Organized
1872	The First Arbor Day Is Celebrated in Nebraska
1885	Dr. Sheldon Jackson Is Appointed General Agent of Education for Alaska
1887	Pope Leo XIII Formally Approves the Catholic University of America
1895	The Ocean Liner St. Paul Is Launched in Philadelphia by the International Navigation Company
1899	The Second Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Is Mustered Out of Service
1906	A Monument Is Unveiled Marking the Spot Where the Oregon Trail Passed over the Hill Near Present-Day La Grande, Oregon
	O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" Is Published
1908	The Washington Forest Fire Association Is Formed
1909	7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Rat Islands
1912	Luxury Ship RMS Titanic Sets Sail from Southampton, England
1918	The Congress of Oppressed Nationalities Comes to a Close in Rome
1919	Emiliano Zapata, Leader of Mexican Peasants, Is Assassinated In Morelos by Government Forces
1920	Oil Is Discovered in Stephens, Arkansas
1924	Simon & Schuster Is Started by Publishing a Crossword Puzzle Book
	Arkansas' State Flag Is Adopted
1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald Publishes The Great Gatsby
1929	An F5 Tornado Kills 23 People in Northeast Arkansas
1930	Arnold Collins Mades the First Synthetic Rubber Called Polychloroprene or Neoprene
1932	Paul von Hindenburg Is Elected First German President; Hitler Finishes Second
1933	The Civilian Conservation Corps Is Created
1938	Austria Is Made a State of Germany
1941	Independent State of Croatia Is Created in Occupied Yugoslavia
	Hooverville, Seattle's Depression-era Shantytown, Burns Down
1942	U.S. & Filipino Soldiers Begin 65-mile Bataan Death March
1944	Harvard University Researchers Produce the First Synthetic Quinine for Treatment of Malaria
1945	New York Drama Critics Choose Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie as Best Play of the Year
1947	The Brooklyn Dodgers Purchase the Contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals
1949	Atlanta, Georgia's Last Streetcar Makes Its Final Run
	Sam Snead Wins the Masters
1951	President Truman Removes Douglas MacArthur from Command of U.N. Forces in Korea
1953	House of Wax Premieres as the First 3-D Color Film
	Austrian Actress Hedy Lamarr Becomes a U.S. Citizen
1957	Ricky Nelson First Sings on Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in the "Rick the Drummer" Episode
1958	Bobby Darin Records "Splish Splash"
1959	Japan's Crown Prince Akihito Marries Commoner
1960	Arnold Palmer Wins His Second Masters Title
1961	South African Gary Player Is the First non-U.S. Golfer to Win the Masters
1962	4.2 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in Vermont's Recorded History
1963	U.S. Nuclear Sub Thresher Sinks 220 Miles East of Boston
1966	10,000 Marchers Arrive in Sacramento, California in Gain Support of Farm Workers' Strike
1968	Fifty-one People Die as Storm Capsizes Ferry in New Zealand's Wellington Harbor
1970	Paul McCartney Leaves the Beatles
1971	U.S. Table Tennis Team Begins One-week Tour of China
1972	70 nations, Including the U.S. and Soviet Union, Ban Biological Warfare
	U.S. B-52 Bombers Hit Targets in North Vietnam for First Time in Four Years
	7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills over 5,000 in the Iranian State of Fars
	Charlie Chaplin Receives Honorary Academy Award
1974	Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir Resigns
1975	Lee Elder Is First African-American Golfer to Compete in the Masters
1977	Tom Watson Wins the Masters
1978	Independent State of Transkei Breaks All Diplomatic Relations with South Africa
1979	Soviet Union Launches Soyuz 33 with the First Bulgarian Cosmonaut Aboard
1981	Computer Timing Error Postpones the First Space Shuttle Lunch (Columbia STS-1)
	Northern Ireland Elects Dying IRA Hunger Striker to the British Parliament
1982	NASA Launches INSAT-1 Satellite to Provide Telecommunications Support for Remote Areas of India
1984	Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Successfully Retrieves Dysfunctional Solar Max Satellite for Repairs
1987	South Africa Signs a Security Pact with the Independent States of Transkei and Ciskei
1988	Self-Rule Peace Accord Reached for Northern Ireland
1993	ANC Leader Is Assassinated on the Eve of South Africa's First Democratic Elections
2000	Beth Henley, Family Week, Opens at New York's Century Theatre for the Performing Arts
2001	8-Months Pregnant, Jane Swift Becomes First Female Governor of Massachusetts
2005	Tiger Woods Wins His Fourth Masters Championship
2006	Across the U.S. Tens of Thousands Protest Proposed Legislation to Criminalize Illegal Immigrants
2010	Polish President Lech Kaczynski Killed in Plane Crash