Battle of the Books Questions - A Long Way from Chicago
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| Who wrote A LONG WAY TO CHICAGO? | RICHARD PECK
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| What month did they spend a week with Grandma? | August
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| Who went to grandma’s? | Joey Dowdel and his sister, Mary Alice
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| What was the “Chicago Typewriter”? | A Thompson Submachine gun
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| Where did Alice think mother and Dad would go? | Week of fishing up in Wisconsin
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| What train did they go to see grandma on? | Wabash Railroad’s Blue Bird
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| Where did it leave every morning? | Dearborn Station bound for St. Louis
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| Why did Mary Alice hate it? | They privy was outside and an old tomcat would jump at you as you came out.
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| What was prohibition? | Selling liquor was against the law.
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| Who drove a Hupmobile? | The banker, L.J. Weidenbach
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| Where did people go to loaf, talk tall, and gossip? | The Coffee Pot Café
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| What did Grandma put in the cauldron to keep it from sticking? | Pennies
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| Who was humped over with buck teeth and cross eyed? | Effie Wilcox
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| What did Grandma keep behind the woodbox? | A twelve gauge double-barreled Winchester Model 21.
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| How did Shotgun get his name? | Shooting a cow
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| What was the reporter wearing? | A Masonic ring with diamond chips in it.
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| What was Shotgun buried in? | A green pine coffin
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| What could you tell about him? | He didn’t have his teeth in and he was wearing bib overalls.
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| What did grandma put at the coffin? | A pitcher of glads from her garden at either end of the pine box with an American flag stuck in each one
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| Who stayed the night with Shotgun’s body? | Effie Wilcox, the reporter, grandma, Joey and Mary Alice
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| Who was in the coffin, batting at the gauze over the body? | The tomcat
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| What did grandma do? | Shot both barrels at the coffin and shot the lid off.
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