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1. Why did the state sponsor a rock concert along the banks of the Clackamas River on a hot August weekend in 1970?

Vortex I – to distract the hippies from protesting Nixon!
OregonEncyclopedia Y Done
Wikipedia Y Done

2. What Oregon politician ran for vice president in 1860 as a pro-Southern sympathizer?

Joseph Lane
OE N Not done (no article yet)
WP Additional information needed (In a cited section, but could have more detail on the campaign and the effect on Lane's career)

3. Who is Oregon's only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction writing?

H. L. Davis for Honey in the Horn, 1936
OE Additional information needed (uncited, and the book actually won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel; the Fiction award replaced it in 1948)
WP Additional information needed (The answer is out there, but the "only Oregon winner" part is not mentioned.)

4. What was "Oshu Nippo" and who read it?

Japanese language newspaper published in Portland
OE Y Done (good article, though no citations)
WP N Not done (need an article)

5. What Oregon singer did Tony Bennett call "the father of rock 'n' roll"?

Poor old Johnnie Ray
OE Y Done
WP Y Done (but doesn't mention the Bennett quote)

6. Why did Simon Benson pay for 20 public drinking foundations in Portland?

From a somewhat weasely sentence in the Benson article: "It is said that the fountains were put in to dissuade workers on his hotel from going to a bar to get a drink of water and then decide on an alcoholic beverage instead."
OE N Not done (no article yet)
WP Y Done (The answer has been there for some time, but we still need a citation! Maybe OHS could help with that, instead of lobbing insults?)

7. In 1900 1902, what Portland writer told the world about Sacagawea and made her a famous woman in Oregon history?

Eva Emery Dye
OE Y Done
WP Additional information needed It's in the Sacagawea article, but was a little tough to find, since the OHS's quiz gave the wrong date! Could be expanded, and perhaps Dye needs an article.

8. When was the last public execution conducted in Oregon?

1902
OE Y Done
WP Additional information needed (See Capital punishment in Oregon, answer not there yet, probably should be)

9. What famous Oregon artist worked in the sign department of the Oregon State Motor Association?

Charles Heaney
OE Y Done
WP Additional information needed (WP has an article on this person, but the OSMA info is not there.)

10. What was the Roseburg blast of 1959?

From a well-cited section of Roseburg, Oregon#The Roseburg Blast:
On August 7, 1959, at approximately 1:00 am, the Gerretsen Building Supply Company caught fire. Firefighters soon arrived at the building, located near Oak and Pine street, to extinguish the fire. Earlier in the evening, a truck driver for the Pacific Powder Company, George Rutherford, had parked his explosives truck in front of the building, a fact which went unnoticed until shortly before the truck exploded, destroying buildings in an eight-block radius and severely damaging 30 more blocks.
OE N Not done (no article yet)
WP Y Done