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Question 1

A	Boy's printed cotton dress
B	Girl's bed gown Hint: Boys usually wore these until the age of four or five.
C	Girl's summer dress Hint: Boys usually wore these until the age of four or five.

Question 1 Explanation:

This boy's printed cotton dress was made for Ben Mowry of Massillon, Ohio, circa 1808-1811.

Question 2

A	Sewing machine Hint: The earliest examples of these machines were made with wooden tubs, which were replaced with metal in the early twentieth century.
B	Hand-cranked butter churn Hint: The earliest examples of these machines were made with wooden tubs, which were replaced with metal in the early twentieth century.
C	Washing machine

Question 2 Explanation:

This item is a Boss Washing Machine No. 1, patented in 1891 by the Boss Washing Machine Company of Cincinnati.

Question 3

A	Telescope Hint: This object was used in emergencies.
B	Candlestick Hint: This object was used in emergencies.
C	Firefighting trumpet

Question 3 Explanation:

Firefighting trumpets or megaphones were used to "call out" or announce the fire to assemble the call men, who were local citizens who assisted regular fire fighters in putting out fires.

Question 4

A	Ink stamps Hint: This utensil allowed families to make a solid form out of a common dairy product.
B	Butter molds
C	Cookie presses Hint: This utensil allowed families to make a solid form out of a common dairy product.

Question 4 Explanation:

These butter molds were used by the Ursuline Sisters of Brown County. They range in size from 2.25 to 3.5 inches (5.71 by 8.89 cm) across.

Question 5

A	Bed warmer
B	Flour sifter Hint: This item made things more comfortable on cold nights.
C	Child's copper rattle Hint: This item made things more comfortable on cold nights.

Question 5 Explanation:

The Ursulines of Brown County used this 1850s bed warmer in the dormitory of their school.

Question 6

A	Ice cream maker Hint: The maker of this device also manufactured beeswax candles.
B	Potato masher Hint: The maker of this device also manufactured beeswax candles.
C	Honey extractor

Question 6 Explanation:

Harvested combs of honey were placed in this A.I. Root honey extractor, which would then spin very fast, forcing the honey out of the comb onto the side of the extractor, where it runs down to a collection spout as pure wax-free honey.

Question 7

A	Gold nugget Hint: These animals, whose scientific name is "Mammut americanum," were large elephant-like creatures with teeth shaped like blunt cones that were adapted for eating twigs from shrubs and trees.
B	Mastodon tooth
C	Petrified wood Hint: These animals, whose scientific name is "Mammut americanum," were large elephant-like creatures with teeth shaped like blunt cones that were adapted for eating twigs from shrubs and trees.

Question 7 Explanation:

This mastodon tooth measures approximately 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.8 cm).

Question 8

A	Nutcracker Hint: This tool helped make refrigeration possible in the days before refrigerators.
B	Surgical tweezers Hint: This tool helped make refrigeration possible in the days before refrigerators.
C	Ice tongs

Question 8 Explanation:

These ice tongs used to carry ice harvested from Lake Erie to ice houses, ice wagons, and customer's homes.

Question 9

A	Zoar beehive
B	Rabbit hutch Hint: The name of this object is also a type of popular 60's hairdo.
C	Early refrigerator Hint: The name of this object is also a type of popular 60's hairdo.

Question 9 Explanation:

This beehive was manufactured in Zoar, Ohio, in the 1840s. Beekeeping was one of the many industries of the Society of Separatists of Zoar, a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in 1817.

Question 10

A	Music box Hint: This object was used to determine the direction of a line relative to the magnetic north pole.
B	Surveyor's instrument
C	Seismograph Hint: This object was used to determine the direction of a line relative to the magnetic north pole.

Question 10 Explanation:

This brass surveyor's compass was used by Thomas Clark to survey and plat Elmore, Ohio in 1851.

Question 11

A	Hocking Hills hiking trail Hint: Fugitive slaves often used this to make their way to a safe haven.
B	Steps to Thomas Worthington's Adena mansion Hint: Fugitive slaves often used this to make their way to a safe haven.
C	John Rankin House Freedom Stairway

Question 11 Explanation:

This photograph shows the "Freedom Stairway," the one hundred steps leading down from the Rankin House toward the Ohio River.

Question 12

A	Rug beater
B	Whisk Hint: Before electric vacuum cleaners were in common use, people would often use this tool.
C	Fireplace poker Hint: Before electric vacuum cleaners were in common use, people would often use this tool.

Question 12 Explanation:

This rug beater was made around 1900.

Question 13

A	Sabre-tooth cat skull Hint: This ancient fish was a massive armored carnivore reaching 16 feet or more in length and probably approaching a weight of two tons.
B	Dunkleosteus terrelli fossil
C	Giant beaver skull Hint: This ancient fish was a massive armored carnivore reaching 16 feet or more in length and probably approaching a weight of two tons.

Question 13 Explanation:

In the late Devonian Period, also known as the "Age of Fishes," a monstrous "terrible fish" named Dunkleosteus terrelli prowled the seas covering what is now northeast Ohio.

Question 14

A	Sausage grinder Hint: The owner of this object was close friends with John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed.
B	Cider press
C	Wine press Hint: The owner of this object was close friends with John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed.

Question 14 Explanation:

Colonel John James, who donated the land for Urbana University in the early 1850s, owned this cider press. Johnny Appleseed planted an apple orchard for Col. James at 300 S. High St. in Urbana, from which the family harvested fruit for cider.

Question 15

A	Binoculars Hint: This object was a popular form of entertainment in the late nineteenth century.
B	Night-vision goggles Hint: This object was a popular form of entertainment in the late nineteenth century.
C	Stereoscope

Question 15 Explanation:

The stereoscope was used to view "stereographs" which contained side-by-side images captured simultaneously from two slightly different perspectives. Looking at the card through a stereoscope, a viewer would see a single three-dimensional image.

Question 16

A	Defibrillator prototype
B	AM/FM radio Hint: This object was created by Dr. Claude Beck, a heart surgeon.
C	Voltage detector Hint: This object was created by Dr. Claude Beck, a heart surgeon.

Question 16 Explanation:

This defibrillator prototype was an early model used to counteract fibrillation of the heart muscle and restore normal heartbeat by applying a brief electric shock.

Question 17

A	Candle holder Hint: When it was used, you might see smoke coming out of this object.
B	Otter effigy pipe
C	Carved whistle Hint: When it was used, you might see smoke coming out of this object.

Question 17 Explanation:

This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a otter was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County.

Question 18

A	Dog collar of "Laddie Boy"
B	Ladies' belt Hint: This item was fastened around the neck of a presidential pet.
C	Child's bracelet Hint: This item was fastened around the neck of a presidential pet.

Question 18 Explanation:

The citizens of Fairbanks, Alaska, presented this collar to President Warren G. Harding and his wife Florence Kling Harding for their dog Laddie Boy on July 16, 1923.

Question 19

A	Farm plow Hint: This is an important tool in Ohio's transportation history.
B	Carriage seat Hint: This is an important tool in Ohio's transportation history.
C	Canal scoop

Question 19 Explanation:

This canal scoop was was pulled by a mule and used to build and maintain the Miami, Wabash and Erie Canals in Paulding County.

Question 20

A	Civil War draft wheel
B	Church lottery wheel Hint: People did not want their number to be pulled from this object.
C	Butter churn Hint: People did not want their number to be pulled from this object.

Question 20 Explanation:

This Civil War draft wheel was used to select men to be drafted to serve from Ohio's twelfth district. The district consisted of Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Fairfield, Hocking, and Perry counties.

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