The Local Quiz

Here’s a 20 Question quiz made up of suggestions from a bunch of locals, a few transplants, and the Door County Living staff. What’s your score?

1. What do locals call the intersection where County F and Maple Grove Road meet?

2. Why do locals look forward to November 1st?

3. What does “Grudge” refer to?

4. Who is the man also known as Coyote?

5. What is a Norzwich and where do you get one?

6. Where is the Overseas Open held?

7. Where is someone going if they say they’re “heading into town?”

8. How do you pronounce the name of Wisconsin’s only dry municipality?

9. Which bar claims to have been the only establishment in the county to legally serve alcohol through Prohibition?

10. What building was once home to Johnny’s Cottage Restaurant?

11. Who coached a team full of “terminal dinks” to the Wisconsin state baseball championship in 1979?

12. Who gave Al Johnson his first goat, leading to the famous tradition of the goats on the roof?

13. Who was the Polka King and what did he drive?

14. What might old-timers call the building that is now Moretti’s in Sister Bay?

15. Who was a potter before he opened the Alibi Restaurant in Fish Creek?

16. If you order a fresh Lawyer on what are you asking for?

17. What was the previous name of the Bayside Tavern?

18. Where was the original Bunda’s Department Store located?

19. Who was Door County’s longest-serving sheriff, and who was the only person who interrupted his tenure from 1962 to 1982?

20. What 100-year-old building used to house the local laundry in Baileys Harbor?

Answers

1. BS Corners

2. The speed limit through Ephraim increases to 35 miles per hour through the village and 45 miles per hour on the southern and northern ends of the village.

3. The Door County League baseball rivalry between the Baileys Harbor A’s and the Sister Bay Bays

4. Norb Blei

5. A sandwich from the Fish Creek Market, formerly the Fish Creek General Store owned by Ann and Geri Norz

6. Deer Run Golf Course on Washington Island

7. Sturgeon Bay

8. Ephraim is pronounced EE-fruhm

9. Nelsen’s Hall Bitter’s Pub & Restaurant

10. Sister Bay Cafe

11. Rod “Chief” Billerbeck

12. Wink Larson

13. Freddie Kodanko, who drove a tractor wherever he needed to go

14. Salty Joe’s Fish Shack

15. James “JJ” Johnson

16. A slimy, cod-like fish

17. Bill’s Bar

18. The current On Deck store near the intersection of Highway 42 and 57 in Sister Bay

19. Hollis “Baldy” Bridenhagen. His wife, Gloria, served as sheriff for two years when Baldy had to step down to undersheriff because of term limits.

20. The current home of Door County Living and the Peninsula Pulse, located at 8142 Highway 57