Test Your Jasper Knowledge

These trivia questions are brought to you by the Mayor's Office and the City of Jasper. All questions are current as of July 1, 2011.

1. How many miles of street are in Jasper?

2. Sturm's Hardware has been in continuous business since when?

3. How many stoplights are owned by the City of Jasper?

4. How many city parks are in Jasper?

5. When and where was Jasper's first bank robbery?

6. How many Mayors have served Jasper?

7. What is the population of Jasper's Sister City of Pfaffenweiler, Germany?

8. What year did the original Courthouse, and all its records, burn?

9. What was the original name of Heichelbech's Restaurant and Bar?

10. What was the original use of Car 300 on the Spirit of Jasper Train?

11. How high is the water wheel at the Jasper City Mill?

12. What was the cost to build St. Joseph's Church (completed in 1880)?

13. How tall is the Jasper Fire Department's Tower Truck when the ladder is fully extended?

14. Can you name any of the original 14 families who settled in Jasper from Pfaffenweiler, Germany?

15. What building once stood where the present Jasper Public Library is located?

16. Jasper was the first city to have an Ordinance (law of the City) that requires every newly built house to have one of these installed?

17. In 1915, which downtown building was the Ideal Bowling & Billiard Hall?

18. How many gallons of water does the Central Water Tower at Newton and16th Street hold?

19. What was the nickname of the Holy Family area beyond the 3rd Avenue bridge?