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		THE WISE OLD SEAGULL presents YOUR SNEAK QUIZ STUDY GUIDE for "OREGON-101"

• OR-eh-gahn?...How Easterners mispronounce "OR-eh-gun"
• 11,240 Feet?...Highest Point in Oregon  (Mt. Hood)
• 0 Feet?...Lowest Point in Oregon  (Pacific Ocean)
• 3257 Miles?...Distance to Miami Beach (Too far for me to fly)
• $54.00?...Cost of Oregon License Plates (Good for two years)
• 3,200,000?...Oregon's Population.  (9,700,000 in L.A. County)
• 1243 Miles?...Length of Columbia River
• 0.0000000000000%?...Oregon's Sales Tax  (That rounds off to "zip")
• 1932 Feet?...Depth of Crater Lake (Deepest lake in the U.S.A)
• 1201 Chetco Ave?....The Brookings address of Seashore Real Estate
• Pears and Roses?...Summertime in Medford
• Daffodils and Camellias?...Wintertime in Brookings
• 7900 Feet?...Depth of Hell's Canyon (Oregon/Idaho Border)
• 10%?...Maximum Oregon Income Tax
• Ashland?...Home of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (A really neat town!)
• Fort Clatsop?...Where Lewis and Clark spent a miserable winter in 1805-6
• Famous Wool Blankets?...Pendleton 
• 82^O?...One February Day in Brookings.  (Usually only gets to 70^O)
• Bend?...East Entrance to Cascades Mountains (Resorts, Skiing, Golf & Stuff)
• 5¢?...Deposit on Pop Cans (Cleaner Highways and Money for Candy) 
• 1400?...Number of Lakes in Oregon  (I know.  Minnesota has us there!)
• $6-$10/per $1000?  Rate of Property Tax in Brookings area. 
• Britt Music Festival?...In Historic Jacksonville. (Music under the stars!)
• 23,000 Ft² ?...Area of Baker City's "Oregon Trail Interpretive Center" 
• Hult Center?...Beautiful Performing Arts Center (In Eugene)
• Rogue River?... (Rafts, Jet Boats, Wilderness)
• Seashore Real Estate?...Designer of This Web Site (We hope you like it!)
• "The Switzerland of America"?...Joseph, Oregon (Nez Perce Country)
• World's Largest Wooden Building?...WW-II Blimp Hangar -(Tillamook)
• "Nope"?...The answer when asking to pump your own gas in Oregon
• 225?...The Number of Oregon State Parks
• Astoria?...First U.S. settlement in the West.  (Named for John Jacob Astor)
• 363 Miles?...Length of U.S. 101 from California Line to the Columbia River
• Salem?...State Capital
• -54^O?... Oregon's Lowest Temperature Ever Recorded.  (Brrrr!)
• 119^O? ... Oregon's Highest Temperature Ever Recorded.  (Whew!)
• Very Nice?...You-For Visiting Our Web Site.

 

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