FIGIK-HILIK (The States F-L In Acronym Format) Quiz

Answer: Saint Augustine

The city of Saint Augustine (San Augustin in the Spanish language) was founded in 1565, and served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years! In 1566, the year following its founding, some of Florida's native inhabitants, members of the Saturiwa tribe, burned down the original Spanish settlement, with the end result being that it had to be moved to a nearby location.

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

The Louisiana Purchase, which occurred on December 20, 1803, enabled the United States to lay claim to the former French colony of Louisiana and all that it entailed, excluding the French territory in Canada. After the original French colony had become a protectorate of Spain, it was later returned to the French, a mere two years before Napoleon sold it to the U.S., in part to pay off war debts.
The purchase price? Roughly the equivalent of 15 million dollars. Imagine today trying to buy even one of the smaller cities in this vast region for that sum!

Answer: he was a prisoner-of-war camp commandant

Wirz was the camp commandant at the notorious Andersonville Prison in Macon County Georgia during the American Civil War years. The conditions at Andersonville were, at best, horrible. At worst, the prison was described by many of its inmates as "Hell".

While Wirz was not responsible for the lack of food available, decent sanitation or lack of medical supplies (though he himself had been a doctor), he may have been responsible for some mistreatment of individual soldiers. During his trial in Washington, D.C. a supposed eyewitness presented extremely damning evidence that resulted in Wirz being one of only two people executed for war crimes during the Civil War; (the other being a man named Champ Ferguson).

Eleven days after his execution, the 'eyewitness' was found to be guilty of perjury regarding the trial and quickly disappeared.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the first U.S. President to have been born and raised in Illinois, although Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack Obama were all living in Illinois at the time of their elections. Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, and raised in the town of Dixon.

Answer: False

While the first and last portions of the statement are true, Arizona, like Hawaii, also does not observe daylight savings time. Portions of other states also disregard DST.

(European and American nations are more likely to observe DST, while Asian and African nations are more apt to ignore it.)

Answer: Arco

Arco was the first town in the world to be lit by nuclear power; however, it was also the first location to experience a plant "melt-down" in which people died. On January 3, 1961, a reactor at a local nuclear power plant caused three deaths. These constituted the world's first fatal reactor accidents.

(Another more pleasant Idaho 'first': Sun Valley ski resort was where the world's first chairlift was installed in 1936.)

Answer: Kentucky

Kentucky is home to Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest system of caves in the world. Some of its more popular features include Grand Avenue, Frozen Niagara, Big Clifty Sandstone and Fat Man's Misery. Mammoth Cave covers over 400 miles of underground pathways.

The National Park Service offers a variety of cave tours. Some are electrically lighted tours while others are lit only by paraffin lamps with which visitors are outfitted. Some tours lead off into muddy crawl spaces and hidden tunnels.

The park is located primarily in Edmonson County, Kentucky, just to the northeast of the city of Bowling Green.

Answer: Indiana

The region of the country in which Indiana lies (The Great Lakes Region) was once known as the United States Northwest Territory, dating back to 1787. After 1800, Ohio was split off from this territory, and the nomenclature then became the Indiana Territory. Since this land belonged to Native Americans, it was probably only logical that it became called "Indiana". Later, both Michigan and Illinois were also split off from the territory, and thus the modern-day boundary lines of Indiana were established.

Indiana's capital, Indianapolis, was the largest city in the state, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics recorded in 2010.

Answer: Kansas

Kansas called a screeching halt to all alcoholic beverages in 1881 because of massive amounts of violence caused by cowboys, who after long trail rides "let off steam" when they arrived in towns like Dodge. Months of long trail rides fraught with danger, boredom, and lack of female companionship, along with being short on all types of entertainment, led to cowboys becoming out of control at times after they entered a town.

Bullets and booze have never been a great combination, and the Kansas legislature found it intolerable after a while, so it decided to address the problem by completely amending the state's constitution prohibiting the usage of alcohol, at least from a legal perspective.

Answer: Iowa

This conflict began as nothing more than a misunderstanding, (as do MOST wars; right?).

This one began as a border dispute between the two states. Yeah, a 9.5 mile wide border. It did, however, encompass nearly the entire length of the two states, Iowa's southern and Missouri's northern boundaries. This dispute had several causes, including some vague wording in Missouri's Constitution about boundaries, mistakes made during surveying following the Louisiana Purchase, and misunderstandings that had been written concerning Native American treaties (which of course the native tribes were largely ignorant of and were not consulted about). The U.S. Supreme Court finally had to intervene in the dispute. No one was injured, and the "war" came to a peaceful conclusion, but not before three trees containing honeybee hives were chopped down; hence the name the "Honey War".