By SALINA POST
Completely happy Kansas Day! Kansas formally turned a state of the US on Jan. 29, 1861.
Check your Kansas data with these trivia questions from the Kansas Historic Society. (We’ll provide the solutions on Monday.)
What was Kansas known as through the territorial interval?
a. Battlefield Kansas
b. Bleeding Kansas
c. Combating Kansas
d. Jayhawk Kansas
What have been abolitionists from Kansas often known as?
a. Border Warriors
b. Kansans
c. Brown’s Boys
d. Jayhawkers
What’s the state reptile of Kansas?
a. snapping turtle
b. ornate field turtle
c. painted turtle
d. noticed turtle
What’s the state tree of Kansas?
a. cottonwood
b. oak
c. ash
d. evergreen
Which metropolis is the oldest in Kansas?
a. Lawrence
b. Leavenworth
c. Lecompton
d. Kansas Metropolis
Which Kansan was named the Nationwide Soccer League’s Rookie of the 12 months in 1965?
a. John Riggins
b. Gale Sayers
c. Lynn Dickey
d. Barry Sanders
Which cartoonist, born in Kansas, is the creator of the well-known cartoon “Beetle Bailey?”
a. Charles Schulz
b. Invoice Amend
c. Invoice Watterson
d. Mort Walker
Which well-known Dodge Metropolis sheriff was a buffalo hunter, gambler, deputy U.S. marshal, and later a newspaper journalist?
a. William “Bat” Masterson
b. Wyatt Earp
c. Henry Newton
d. Doc Holliday
Which Kansas-born clown often known as Weary Willie, toured with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and is taken into account one of many best of all time?
a. Purple Skelton
b. Emmett Kelly
c. Mark Anthony
d. Bobby Kaye
Which well-known and influential African American poet and creator spent a lot of his boyhood rising up in Lawrence and Topeka?
a. Langston Hughes
b. Countee Cullen
b. Jupiter Harmon
d. Paul Laurence Dunbar
What city was the territorial capitol of Kansas in 1856?
a. Wyandotte
b. Lecompton
c. Topeka
d. Lawrence
What’s the state amphibian of Kansas?
a. barred tiger salamander
b. bullfrog
c. tree frog
d. mudpuppy
What’s the state march of Kansas?
a. I’m a Jayhawk
b. Wildcat Victory
c. Kansas March
d. Free State March
After Kansas was admitted into the Union, what number of stars have been on the US flag?
a. 32
b. 33
c. 34
d. 35
When was the state seal of Kansas adopted?
a. 1861
b. 1862
c. 1859
d. 1860
What’s the title of the location the place a serious Civil Struggle battle in Kansas was fought?
a. Baxter Springs battlefield
b. Buying and selling Put up battlefield
c. Marais de Cygnes Bloodbath
d. Mine Creek Battlefield
Which metropolis was struck by tornadoes consecutively in 1916, 1917, and 1918 on Could 20?
a. Hesston
b. Backyard Metropolis
c. Codell
d. Liberal
What’s the title of the sinkhole positioned close to Ashland, Kansas, that has by no means been recognized to be dry?
a. Buffalo Invoice’s Properly
b. Elm Springs
c. Massive Properly
d. St. Jacob’s Properly
Kansas was the primary state to lift what sort of navy unit?
a. Nationwide Guard
b. African American infantry regiment
c. Plains calvary unit
d. Particular forces unit
Which frontier military scout who guided navy items in Kansas was described by George Armstrong Custer because the “most well-known scout on the plains?”
a. James “Wild Invoice” Hickok
b. William “Buffalo Invoice” Cody
c. Equipment Carson
d. William Bent
Through the years of the Santa Fe Path, which Kansas river served because the border between the US and Mexico?
a. Kansas River
b. Neosho River
c. Arkansas River
d. Smoky Hill River
Which tribe of American Indians did Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado meet within the Quivira Area of Kansas?
a. Pawnee Indians
b. Cheyenne Indians
c. Kansa Indians
d. Wichita Indians
Which “large” Kansan turned a world champion boxer when he defeated the defending world heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson in 26 rounds?
a. Jess Willard
b. Joe Lewis
c. Max Schmeling
d. Tommy Burns
What main commerce route by way of Kansas stretched a thousand miles from Missouri to New Mexico?
a. Chisholm Path
b. Santa Fe Path
c. Oregon Path
d. California Path
Which influential Kansan from Emporia was a newspaper journalist and creator who obtained two Pulitzer Prizes?
a. Samuel L. Clemens
b. Walter Winchell
c. William Allen White
d. Ernie Pyle
