Day 60 (D-1) Salt Lake City

We leave Wyoming to go to Utah, just to spend the night there, have a free morning for last-minute shopping and then we fly back to France.


Today, I have only questions for you about Salt Lake City (and a few about Utah)! You may have to do some surfing on the internet to find all the answers!

 20 Questions.  Can you find 20 answers?

1.  What's the capital of Utah?

2.  Who founded the city and when?  (That's 2 questions, in fact.)

3.  What's the population of Salt Lake City (SLC)?

4.  What's the average elevation of SLC?

5.  When were the Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City?

6. How many medals did France win at these Olympic Games?

7.  Do you know the names of any of the French Gold Medal (5) winners at the SLC Winter Olympics?

8. The religious group LDS has their home headquarters in Salt Lake City. (Their less formal name is "Mormons.")    Their entire name is The Church of LDS.  What do the letters "LDS" stand for?

9. What place in the center of SLC is considered to be the "Vatican of the Mormons?"

10. What's the name of the highest mountaintop visible from SLC? (3454m)

11.  What's the name of the lake which is the largest salt-water lake in the Western hemisphere and the largest lake in the United States which is not a part of the Great Lakes region and has been called America's Dead Sea?

12.  If you would like a "taste of home" in SLC before returning to France, where can you go ?  (easy question...I give you the answer here):

13.  Wyoming is The Cowboy State and The Equality State; Colorado is The Centennial State; South Dakota's nickname is Mount Rushmore State. And Utah, what is Utah called?  And why?

14.  Why is the train important in Utah’s history ?

15. Grenoble's present Mayor Piolle would like Salt Lake City because it is considered to be a bicycle-friendly city. Many streets have bike lanes.  Oops, that's not a question!  Can you make the question? Why would Mayor Piolle......?

16.  What piece of music by Aaron Copland accompanied one of the choreographed opening musical performances of the SLC Winter Olympics?  It's a part of his ballet "Rodeo" and you just read about it in the last post!

17.  What kind of research can you do at the Mormons' library in SLC?  Hint: It's referred to as FHL.  What do those letters stand for?

18.What is the name of the mountain range to the east and to the north of SLC?

19.  The Museum of Ancient Life in the town of Lehi, 30 minutes to the south of SLC has the world's biggest exhibition of something.  What is it?

20.  What city in Italy is a sister-city of SLC?  It's not too far from Grenoble.


My best,

Jane
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-- stand for = represent (another phrasal verb)
-- bike lanes = pistes cyclables 

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--Grammar:  How about a little grammar lesson before this blog comes to an end?  A little grammar work before leaving on holidays.  A break from packing your suitcases!

You see here that in English we can say "What city."    But sometimes you will hear what and sometimes which, "Which city."  How do you choose?
What is used to ask when there are an unknown number or infinite possibilities for an answer.
For example: "What movie did you go to see?"
Which is used if you are choosing between a more limited number of items, already defined, like this: 
For example: "Which shoes should I wear with this dress -- my blue ones or my black ones?"  Certainly use which,  not what, when there are only two choices, or if both the speaker and the listener can visualise all the items under consideration: For example: Which foot did you break?"
Often which or what can be used for several choices, depending on what is in the speaker's mind:
For example:
a-- "Which bus goes into the center?"
b-- "What bus shall I take?"
Both sentences are fine.  The speaker is probably thinking about fewer buses in question (a) than in question (b).