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Amos House fundraiser uses R.I. trivia questions

01:00 AM EST on Sunday, November 30, 2008

By John Hill

Journal Staff Writer

The Crescent Park Looff Carousel, in Riverside, is the oldest in the nation.


The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer

If you’re the type of person who knows the state drink is coffee milk and the state shellfish is the quahog, Ian Bohorquez has a game for you. Online, at least.

Bohorquez, president of a company called Creative:Interactive Inc., of Providence, has put together a collection of questions on 100 small facts about biggest little state as part of a fundraising campaign for Amos House, the private nonprofit social-service agency that runs a well-known soup kitchen in Providence as well as providing an array of support and training programs.

Amos House is holding a fundraising raffle, giving away prizes that include a $200 gift certificate to the Laurel Lane Country Club, in South Kingstown, a free pound of coffee every month for a year from the Coffee Exchange, a $100 gift certificate from Cardi’s Furniture, and a $50 one from Gallery Belleau, in Providence.

The game is at www.RhodeIslandTrivia.com and, for a donation — a $5 minimum is requested — participants can register for the raffle drawing and are routed to the trivia-question page. There are 20 questions and new ones are posted each week until the contest ends Dec. 17. The drawing for the raffle prizes is Dec. 18.

The trivia contest was added for fun, Bohorquez said. Proficiency in answering the questions will not enhance or hurt a player’s chances of winning a prize in the raffle.

For his research, he said he consulted sources such as almanacs but found a book called Rhode Island Curiosities to be one of the best sources of less-known but amusing knowledge.

“There are so many things in such a little state,” he said. “We have the oldest carousel in the nation, in East Providence. We also have the first diner car — I knew that. There was a lot from Rocky Point. Rocky Point had a saltwater swimming pool.”

He said picking the questions wasn’t that hard, but hitting the right balance between hard and easy was.

“I didn’t want to be so obscure that it made it no fun for anybody,” Bohorquez said.

jhill@projo.com

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