Treasure hunt clues #4

Milkweed is the state flower of Illinois

Look closely below for clues to two silver bars hidden somewhere in the Big Horn Basin. Not everything is a clue, but the ones that are will lead you to the treasure. If you find it, please text a picture to the number on the box.

Questions:

Which of the traditional names of the chess pieces is last alphabetically?

What are the little donuts sold by Hostess called?

Who stood immediately behind Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

What year was “The Jungle Book” first published, and who wrote it?

How many seasons of the TLC show Sister Wives have there been?

Fun Facts:

To us in Wyoming, some state flowers seem a little unusual. Nevada’s is sagebrush, which is really a shrub. Maine chose the white pinecone, which isn’t a flower at all. Illinois went with milkweed, considered a weed here, and Oklahoma’s is mistletoe, a plant better known as a parasite and a Christmas decoration than a flower.

John was born into a slave-owning family in Texas and later lived in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. He was born 20 years before the Civil War and died just six days after the Titanic sank.

Boy Scouts in Jackson help gather, clean and prepare about 8,000 pounds of antlers for sale at auction during the Mountain Man Rendezvous each May. In a typical year, more than $200,000 is raised, with 75 percent going to support the Wildlife Refuge and 25 percent going to the Scout troops.

In 1895, Charles Warwick won the mayoral election in Philadelphia after his opponent was photographed at 3 a.m. leaving a brothel.

The Reclamation Act of 1902 funded massive irrigation projects by selling public land and creating about 3 million acres of irrigated land. It helped turn the West into a major farm region. That land now produces about 60% of U.S. vegetables and 25% of the fruits and nuts.

In 1979, high school industrial arts teacher Geral Fauss sold 5,000 foam fingers at the New Orleans Cotton Bowl and then quit his job.

In 1917, there were 138 people who died in the Big Horn Basin. The next year, 297 people died.

Three little-known rare earth elements, cerium, praseodymium and neodymium, are so important that a mine east of Barstow, California, near the Nevada border, has quietly become one of the most strategic pieces of ground in the United States. The coordinates of the mine are about 35°28’39”N, 115°31’57”W.

Answers:

Rook (bishop, king, knight, pawn, queen, rook)

Donettes (Best-selling: #1 Powdered, #2 Chocolate, #3 Coconut Crunch)

Martin Luther King Jr. (Also Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen)

1894, Rudyard Kipling (It was published as a collection after earlier magazine stories.)

20 seasons (The last episode aired on February 1, and it seemed like a finale.)