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IA Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2013


hi my name is Jonathan Grunwald and I’m
an eighth-grade homeschooled student
from Ames Iowa welcome to my state Des
Moines is Iowa’s capital and largest
city the capital building behind me was
completed in 1886 and it’s gold dome
remains one of the most famous landmarks
in the Hawkeye State by the way you
might not want to use that term right
come from Ames is home of the Iowa State
Cyclones who faced the Iowa Hawkeyes
each fall in the state’s largest
football rivalry iowa state university
was one of the first land grant
universities in the united states it’s
also home of the first-ever electronic
digital computer built by professor john
vincent atanasov and ISU student
Clifford Barry this tower is campanile a
famous landmark on campus now let’s go
to one of my favorite places & ames
hickory park hickory park restaurant
company was founded in nineteen seventy
and it is unique as it is the only one
in the world this is it they even have
their own happy birthday song which they
sing 300 times a week seemed like a lot
fifteen thousand customers pass through
these doors abdominally save room for
dessert your ice cream is delicious
speaking of ice cream did you know that
the Blue Bunny headquarters are in
lemars Iowa mmm YUM Iowa is also home to
the largest collection of grant wood
artwork grant wood was a native Iowan
and you can still see the house from his
famous painting American Gothic in eldon
other famous islands include John Wayne
and her 31st President Herbert Hoover
who was the first president born west of
the Mississippi
River the Homer he was born in West
Branch is now a National Historic Site
I’m Jonathan Grunwald and i’ll see you
in DC
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