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YOUR TOWN.

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Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard

School's back in a week or two, and it's time to sharpen your pencils.

Call this "Your Town 101' - a pop quiz on all things Lane County and beyond.

It's stuff that any self-respecting local should commit to memory to impress visitors and settle bar debates. The answers are on Page G2.

From the Cascades to the coast, from Kesey to Keiko, from nutria to the New Carissa, test your knowledge. We've also tossed in a couple of random brain-benders just to keep you honest.

Hey, why should students have all the fun?

1) Which of the following was an early alternative name for Eugene?

a) Two Buttes

b) Willamette City

c) Skinner's Bend

d) Skinner's Mudhole

2) True or false: Springfield, meanwhile, was named by settler Elias Briggs, after the town of the same name in Illinois.

3) True or false: Gen. Joseph Lane, the combative soldier and political leader for whom the county is named, oppressed Native Americans, endorsed slavery and was nominated for vice president.

4) True or false: Lane County is about the size of Connecticut.

5) In any given year, the number of rainy days in Eugene-Springfield approximates:

a) 30 percent

b) 40 percent

c) 50 percent

d) It never rains in Eugene-Springfield.

6) Crater Lake, in the state's only national park, is the deepest in the continental United States and the seventh deepest in the world. How deep is it?

a) as deep as two football fields, lined up end to end

b) more than three football fields, end to end

c) more than five football fields, end to end

d) more than seven football fields, end to end

7) The late author Ken Kesey, who lived in Pleasant Hill, wrote the classic American novels "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" before he turned how old?

a) 23

b) 25

c) 30

d) "The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery."

8) Keiko, the world's most famous whale, made Newport's Oregon Coast Aquarium a smash attraction after his transfer there in 1996. The animal died last December - what was Keiko's age?

a) 20

b) 22

c) 25

d) 27

9) Cottage...

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