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The world’s longest running trivia contest is aired each January on WLFM, the radio station at Lawrence University in Appleton. For the last 35 years, the station has broadcast 50 consecutive hours of trivia questions.

first appeared: 7/16/2000

Master magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss) claimed Appleton, Wis., as his birthplace, but actually was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. Houdini?s family moved to Appleton when he was a toddler. Today, Appleton is home to the Houdini Historical Center.

first appeared: 7/2/2000

Introduced in 1959, the original Barbie doll was named after Barbie Millicent Roberts of Willows, Wis., the daughter of Ruth and Elliott Handler, founders of the Mattel toy company. Ruth got the idea for the doll when she saw her daughter imitating adult conversations while playing with paper dolls.

first appeared: 6/4/2000

The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wis., (pop. 7,340) in 1854 when a group of people met in a small frame school house and started a new political party to fight the spread of slavery and to support free land for homesteaders in the western states. The party’s first presidential candidate was John C. Fremont; its second was Abraham Lincoln.

first appeared: 5/21/2000

The carousel in Waterloo, Wis., (pop. 2,700) has been operating ever since it was purchased from a traveling carnival by the Waterloo Fire Department in 1925. The carousel has 28 wooden horses and two chariots, and is one of about 150 operable antique carousels in the nation.

first appeared: 5/7/2000

John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill met by accident when they had to share a hotel room in Boscobel, Wis., in 1898. A year later the two men, along with Will J. Knights, organized The Gideons association, which since then has distributed more than 900 million free bibles to those away from home.

first appeared: 4/23/2000

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