PRELUDE: MOLINE / QUAD CITIES QUIZ

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1. Moline, Illinois is one of the Quad Cities. Which of these is not?
a) Davenport, IA
b) Bettendorf, IA
c) Wellendorf, IL

2. The corporate headquarters for which agricultural machinery maker is based in Moline?
a) Deere & Company
b) Beere & Company
c) Leere & Company

3. The Quad Cities have a successful minor league hockey team. With which male animals do they share a name?
a) Mallards
b) Bulls
c) Lions

4. The son of which famous British writer is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Moline?
a) Thomas Hardy
b) Charles Dickens
c) William Wordsworth

5. Moline is the French word for what?

a) Farm town
b) Mill town
c) Downtown

6. In what year was Moline officially incorporated as a city?
a) 1872
b) 1873
c) 1874

7. Which former president once settled a dispute between rival local railroad and steamboat companies before he came into office?
a) James Buchanan
b) Andrew Johnson
c) Abraham Lincoln

8. The oldest eatery in the Quad Cities is Lagomarcino’s Confectionary, at 1422 5th Ave, Moline. When did it start as a business?
a) 1908
b) 1918
c) 1928

AND DID YOU KNOW…

Legendary outlaw “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born in LeClaire, just up river from Moline, in 1846. An experienced horseman and an excellent shot, he worked for the Pony Express while becoming a Wild West showman.

Davenport, Moline and Rock Island were originally called the Tri Cities, becoming the Quad Cities with the addition of East Moline. With the growth of Battendorf, they should have become the Quint Cities, but the name never caught on.

Before Western expansion, the Quad City area was the site of Saukenuk, the largest Native American settlement in North America. To find out more, visit the Hauberg Indian Museum in Rock Island or the Black Hawk State Historic Site website at www.blackhawkpark.org

Answers: 1c, 2a, 3a, 4b, 5b, 6a, 7c, 8a