>> ERIC: OUR HOUR TOGETHER HAS NEARLY COME TO AN END.

BUT FIRST IT'S TIME FOR US TO HEAR FROM YOU.

LAST WEEK WE ASKED YOU A MINNESOTA HISTORY QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS WELL KNOWN IN OUR STATE.

BEFORE 1926, THERE WERE SOME OF THESE THINGS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

BUT IN 1926, MINNESOTA BECAME THE FIRST PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES TO HAVE ONE.

NOW THERE ARE 93 OF THEM IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT MINNESOTA HAS THE DISTINCTION OF GETTING ONE FIRST.

YOUR TASK WAS A SIMPLE ONE.

TELL US WHAT MINNESOTA "GOT" IN 1926 THAT WAS THE FIRST ONE IN THE UNITED STATES?

AS ALWAYS, CALLERS WITH THE WRONG ANSWERS GO FIRST.

>> ERIC: ALL GOOD ANSWERS.

BUT ALL INCORRECT.

A SPECIAL SHOUTOUT FROM THE PRODUCERS TO JOE FROM PUPOSKY WHO ANSWERS THE HISTORY QUESTION THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY - WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF GOOGLE!

FOR THIS WEEK'S RIGHT ANSWER, ANTHONY, YOU'RE ON.

>> Eric: WE CAN ALL ASPIRE TO GREATNESS.

YEAH, ANTHONY, YOU'RE CORRECT.

THE BASILICA OF ST. MARY IN MINNEAPOLIS IS THE ANSWER WE SOUGHT.

THERE'S A NICE COLOR PHOTO FROM EARLIER THIS CENTURY.

THE BIG CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNATED THE CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND HELD ITS FIRST MASS IN 1914.

IN 1926, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGED THE DESIGNATION TO THE BASILICA OF ST. MARY.

THANKS TO JIM BICKAL FOR THAT QUESTION AND FOR HELPING US OUT LAST WEEK.

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WE HAVE JUST ENOUGH TIME FOR SOME SHOW-ENDING MUSIC FOR YOU TONIGHT.

THIS WEEK BACK IN 2011, THE HONEYDOGS PERFORMED ON AN EPISODE OF THE TPT ARTS PROGRAM MINNESOTA ORIGINAL.

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