Trivial Slotemakers Test

1. The children of Cornelis & Aagje were?

1. Anna, Jan, Dick
2. Antje, Jack, Dirk
3. Anna, John, Dirk
4. Agnes, Jessie, Tillie

1. Which war had recently been fought which was one of the reasons the Slotemakers wanted to move from Europe?

1. The American Civil War
2. World War II
3. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870
4. The Danish – Dutch War of 1882

1. When it came time to leave Holland which two countries did the Slotemakers consider?

1. Russia and Canada
2. The United States and Canada
3. The United States and the Republic of South Africa
4. The United States and Mexico

1. Anna and John were how old when they boarded the ship for America?

1. Anna was 31 and John was 22
2. Anna was 10 and John was 16
3. Anna was 16 and John was 10
4. Anna was 4 and John was 2

1. In 1881 the Slotemakers arrived at their new hometown of?

1. Orange City, Iowa
2. Lynden, Washington
3. New York, New York
4. Denton, Texas

1. At the age of 20 Anna did what?

1. married Henry Spaan
2. gave birth to her first born, named Cornelia, during the worst snow storm in Iowa’s history
3. was arrested for taking bites out of cheese rounds in a factory.
4. went to seminary school

1. Eight years after the Slotemakers arrived in Orange City another Dutch family named the Kramers arrived. The Kramers children were?

1. Nellie, Ella, Kate, Sigmund and Rose
2. Nellie, Joe, Kate, Tillie, Dora and Glenda
3. Ella, Sam, Dack, Mack, Dora and Trudie
4. Nellie, Ella, Tillie, Kate and Dora

1. What was the name of the foster daughter the Slotemakers brought with them from Holland and who did she marry in Orange City?

1. Alida Kronker married Steve Blankers
2. Ida Mueller married Peter Spaan
3. Alida DeVries married Peter Mueller
4. Ida Mueller married Peter DeVries

1. coffee from Seattle, a photo of Mount Baker & smoked oysters
2. cheese, strawberry jam & smoked salmon
3. apples, pears & a piece of fir bark
4. a small windmill, dried tulips & saltwater taffy

1. Cornelius, Henry, Agnes, Anna & Dick
2. Henry, Otto, Agnes, Dick & Jessie
3. Cornelius, Henry, Agnes, Dick & Otto
4. Cornelius, Otto, Jessie, Agnes & Dirk

1. Cornelia
2. Cornelius
3. Henrietta
4. Aagje

1. Daughter Jessie was born
2. Neil was expelled from school for the 2^nd time.
3. Cornelis and Aagje celebrated their 50^th Wedding Anniversary
4. World War I began

1. Bert Dyksterhuis
2. Arnold Blankers
3. Jayson Elenbaas
4. Fred Polinder

1. polio
2. measles
3. tuberculosis
4. influenza

1. Harlow Spaan and Fred Polinder
2. Henry Spaan
3. Cornelius Spaan and Henry Spaan
4. William Wagter and John Spaan

1. brookies
2. ollie bollen
3. prachtig
4. kinterklassen

1. was a doughboy in France
2. sold Liberty Bonds
3. refused to buy Liberty Bonds
4. led anti-war demonstrations

1. she came under surveillance of American government agents
2. voiced her objection to the British and support of the German Kaiser
3. changed her opinion after America entered the war in 1918
4. all of the above

1. run away from home
2. brew moonshine at his secret still
3. trap animals and sell fur pelts
4. study his school work

1. Agnes had left home with a Fuller Brush salesman
2. Otto had left home to be a cowboy in Oregon
3. Neil had left home to get out of milking
4. Dick had left home to join the army

1. Agnes
2. Jessie
3. Sylvia
4. Nellie

1. Rudolph Valentino
2. Douglas Fairbanks
3. Aimee Semple McPherson
4. Calvin Coolidge

1. the end of the Great Depression
2. the 50^th Wedding Anniversary of Anna Slotemaker Spaan and Henry Spaan
3. the birth of Gerald ‘Mooch’ Slotemaker
4. 50 years since the founding of Lynden

1. Fanny Slotemaker
2. Marie Spaan
3. Cornie Spaan
4. Judy Slotemaker

1. a dijk
2. a polder
3. a sinkerslabben
4. a brunesweg

1. Jan Keppel and Greitje Muller
2. Cornelis Slotemaker and Aagje Keppel
3. John Slotemaker and Tillie Kramer
4. Dirk Slotemaker and Hervormde Kerk

That concludes the Slotemaker Trivia Test

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