"The States"-Kansas Trivia Quiz

Answer: Comanche

"The Battle of Little Big Horn" took place on June 25 and June 26 in the year 1876. Almost 1000 people were killed in battle. Civilians Boston Custer, Mark Kellogg and Henry Armstrong Reed were also killed. Kansas state was named after the Kansas River. The Kansas River was named after the "Kansa" tribe that was made up of Native Americans who lived in the area.

Answer: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe

Cyrus K. Holliday was in charge of the project and charted the original course the "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" would be taking. By 1945, the railroad has carried and transported roughly 11,264,000 passengers. The railway owned a mere six trains in 1870, but in 1945 1,759 locomotives were owned by the company. Sharing a border with Nebraska (to the north), Missouri (to the east), Colorado (to the west) and Oklahoma (to the south), the center point of the 48 continuous states has been established in Smith County, which is located close to Lebanon, Kansas.

Answer: 1911

The Wichita Mid-Continent Airport has been revealed as the largest airport in the state. In 2008, a total of 36 Kansas cities had a population of at least 10,000 people. Wichita was ranked the #1 most populated Kansas city with 357,698 and Haysville had 10,029 natives.

Answer: Sunflower

The sunflower plant was discovered in Peru. Maurice Greene was dubbed "The Worlds Fastest Man", won four Olympic Medals and was born in Kansas City, Kansas. Kirstie Alley, Ed Asner, Hugh Beaumont, Annette Bening, Madge Blake, Scott Foley, Dennis Hopper, Don Johnson, Buster Keaton, Shirley Knight, Paul Rudd, Vivian Vance and Dee Wallace-Stone were all Kansas residents before they hit it big in the acting industry.

Answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska act was established to make new territories and for the settlers to decide once and for all if they would allow slavery in those new lands. Named for the 34th President of the United States, the "Eisenhower Presidential Library" can be found in Abilene. Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas, but he grew up in Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. and days later was buried next to his son, Doud, who died at the age of three in 1921.

In 1979, Eisenhower's wife, Mamie, died and was also buried next to her husband and son. All three are buried in Abilene on the grounds of the "Eisenhower Presidential Library."

Answer: John Brown

Born on May 9, 1800, John Brown started a anti-slave campaign to rid the future state of Kansas from slavery. Brown died on December 2, 1859 by way of execution for NOT stepping down from his beliefs. An interesting fact is the fact that John Brown had twenty children. Sadly, only eleven of Brown's twenty children made it to adulthood. Two years after Brown's execution, Kansas declared its independence and was admitted into the union.

Answer: 1870's

Wyatt Earp was born on March 19, 1848. In 1875, after several stints in other states, Earp moved to notorious Dodge City and became assistant martial.
Earp died on January 13, 1929 in Los Angeles, California. Earp was eighty years old at the time of his death. Elected to office in 1887, Kansas resident Susan Madora Salter, was the first woman mayor in the United States. In 1997, 492.2 million bushels of wheat were produced in Kansas, no wonder "The Wheat Capital of the World" has been located in Sumner County.

Answer: seashells

The state motto is "Ad astra per aspera", which translates in to "To the stars through difficulties." In 1860, the population of Kansas was 107,206 residents. The population was 2,178,611 natives in 1960, making a difference of over 2,000,000 people in just 100 years.

Answer: 226

Located in Dodge City, there was a museum named "Boot Hill Museum". "The Wizard of Oz Museum" can be found in Wamego. In the United States, Dodge City has been declared "The Windiest City" in the country. It was unlawful to put ice cream on cherry pie at one time in Kansas. Kansas resident Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American woman to win an "Academy Award".

Answer: windiest

If you thought that Kansas hasn't had an effect on "Popular Culture", you thought wrong. Before she was shipwrecked on "Gilligan's Island", store clerk Mary Ann Summers was raised on a farm in Winfield. A famous Witchita native was known as "Dennis the Menace".

Helen Crump (Andy Taylor's girlfriend on "The Andy Griffith Show") was from rural Kansas before moving to the fictional Mayberry, North Carolina. Before she spent time in "The Land of Oz", Dorothy Gale was being raised on a small farm in Kansas and later coined the phrase, "There's No Place Like Home". Dodge City's Matt Dillon is arguably the most famous martial in history. Clark Kent was sent away from his native planet "Krypton" and touched down in fictional Smallville, Kansas, where he was adopted, raised and later became "Superman".