Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Cheyenne, Laramie, Sheridan: public school, pension, television)

[CptnRn]

Hi Althea, welcome to Wyoming Trivia... I'm not sure I'm really ready to get back into this game but here goes....

Originally Posted by Althea-1

In what YEAR did Wyoming Air Service begin airmail route between Cheyenne and Billings, Montana?

The same year the Democrats won every state elective office and majority of seats of state legislature...

...1934

[Althea-1]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Hi Althea, welcome to Wyoming Trivia... I'm not sure I'm really ready to get back into this game but here goes....



The same year the Democrats won every state elective office and majority of seats of state legislature...

...1934

Hooray...you are correct. Your turn.

[CptnRn]

OK next question. According to one website I found, Newcastle, Wyoming has an unusual sex ordinance, what is it?

[Rescue3]

I can't answer that one with a straight face...

[Wm Jas]

Couples are banned from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer.

Can you imagine the problems that society would have if it weren't for common sense laws like this?

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Wm Jas

Couples are banned from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer.

Can you imagine the problems that society would have if it weren't for common sense laws like this?

You've got it Wm Jas! I can't help but wish I knew the back story behind that law being written.

"Damn, they are at it again! There ought to be a law! ..."




... Edit: here is the website http://www.jamesfuqua.com/lawyers/jo....shtml#Wyoming

[Wm Jas]

On May 25, 1891 the Grand Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Wyoming conducted a public ceremony dedicating the cornerstone of Sheridan’s first brick school building. A time capsule was placed inside the cornerstone. Among many other things this time capsule contained two items of significant American historical interest. Name one or both of the items.

[Rescue3]

I'm kinda' guessing that's an inside architecture bit of trivia... just as the USDA can actually tell you which came first - the chicken or the egg. Unless you're in the industry, you just don't get to know it.

Wm Jas - want to pass on the answer and suggest another question?

[Wm Jas]

No trick or inside question! Sheridan had 2 weeklies in those days. And those are online.

That's all you get and I'm not giving the answer. If it's not worth a bit of sleuthing then maybe it’s time for this thread to fade away gracefully.

[Rescue3]

Good hint.

Okay, I'm going to guess you were not going for the two copper cents or the copy of the Sheridan Post.

The tin box had to fit in a cavity that was only a 4 x 8 inches, so it had to be small. Let's guess it was a piece of the apple tree under which Generals Lee and Grant negotiated the surrender that ended the civil war and a piece of the "old Constitution, which was sunk during the Revolutionary war."

Except that the USS Constitution was launched in 1797, somewhat after the Revolutionary War was fought (1776 to 1783). It was the third of the first six frigates authorized by the newly formed United States government. Still survives to this day in the Boston Harbor, but has never been sunk. (There is evidence of an old myth that it was sunk, but that myth was pretty seriously debunked. In actual fact, the United States Constitution was not even adopted until 1787, four years after the war ended, and ten years before the ship was launched.)

If there was an "old" Constitution actually sunk during the Revolutionary War, I haven't found a hint of it.

We need some Navy help. Wanna weigh in here, Elk Hunter?