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    Kansas Trivia
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    Kansas Trivia

    By Barbara Brackman

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    Kansas Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Kansas. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful and historic state, Kansas Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. Designed for use in a wide variety of settings - home, office, school, parties - it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Sunflower State.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 30, 1997
    ISBN9781418553814
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      Kansas Trivia - Barbara Brackman

      KANSAS

      TRIVIA

      KANSAS

      TRIVIA

      COMPILED BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

      Rutledge Hill Press

      Nashville, Tennessee

      Copyright ©1997 by Barbara Brackman All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews and articles.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Rutledge Hill Press, 211 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219. Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn & Company, Ltd., 34 Nixon Road, Bolton, Ontario L7E 1W2.

      Typography by D&T/Bailey Typesetting, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Brackman, Barbara.

         Kansas trivia / compiled by Barbara Brackman.

           p. cm.

         ISBN 1-55853-539-X (paperback)

         1. Kansas—Miscellanea. I. Title.

        F681.B75 1997

        978—dc21

      97-28165

      CIP

      Printed in the United States of America.

      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 — 00 99 98 97

      PREFACE

      I came to Kansas as a child in 1959 and I've lived in a few other, more glamorous places. But like Dorothy Gale's, my heart has remained here. Kansas has a marvelous history, from its centuries when Native Americans hunted the buffalo through its inspirational crusade as Bleeding Kansas to the days of the cowboys and the suffragettes. I've been fascinated by the Kansas spirit, evidenced by places like The Garden of Eden and the Flint Hills, by its many female firsts, and its emphasis on literacy and education. Let others think Kansas is the place to be from; we Kansans know There's no place like home.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      GEOGRAPHY

      HISTORY

      ENTERTAINMENT

      ARTS & LITERATURE

      SPORTS & LEISURE

      SCIENCE & NATURE

      GEOGRAPHY

      CHAPTER ONE

      Q. What town calls itself the Czech Capital of Kansas?

      A. Wilson.

      Q. Englishman George Grant was once the biggest landholder in the United States. In 1873 he bought 70,000 acres of land in what Kansas county?

      A. Ellis.

      Q. Woody Hockaday of Wichita decided early that Kansas highways needed numbers so he spent his own money marking them with signs nailed to posts and telephone poles. What was the symbol he used?

      A. Hockaday's numbers were marked with a red H.

      Q. Hockaday gave one road the number of his business phone and it stuck. What state highway still bears that Hockaday number?

      A. Kansas Highway 96.

      Q. In the early years of statehood, what corporations owned one-sixth of the land in Kansas?

      A. The railroads.

      Q. In what town in Washington County does the main street form the border between Kansas and Nebraska?

      A. Lanham.

      Q. These natural springs, which were sacred to Native Americans and later became a thriving health spa, were inundated by a Corps of Engineers dam on the Solomon River. What was the name of the former Spirit Springs in Mitchell County?

      A. Waconda Springs, which are now under Waconda Lake.

      Q. Kansas has how many cities with a population over 10,000?

      A. Thirty-four.

      Q. What is the smallest county in Kansas?

      A. Wyandotte County, which measures 151 square miles.

      Q. Where is the Spinach Capital of the World?

      A. Lenexa.

      Q. What Civil War general, whose last words were supposedly They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance, met his end at the Battle of Spotsylvania and has a Kansas county named after him?

      A. Major General John Sedgwick.

      Q. George Sibley met with the Osage Indians at an old tribal meeting place to negotiate a treaty for the Santa Fe Trail. What town now stands on that site?

      A. Council Grove.

      Q. The Cimmaron River, once described as lacking nothing but water, is named for a Spanish word meaning what?

      A. Wild or unruly.

      Q. What county was created out of portions of Cherokee and Bourbon Counties?

      A. Crawford County.

      Q. According to the 1890 census, what percentage of Kansans reported being born in a foreign country?

      A. 10 percent.

      Q. Which Kansas county usually produces the most wheat?

      A. Sumner County.

      Q. It's doubtful that the man for whom this site is named ever saw it, but there is a beautiful stone structure there built by the WPA that offers a great view of the countryside. What is the site's name?

      A. Coronado Heights.

      Q. Bender Mounds in Labette County are named for whom?

      A. The Bender family, who murdered 11 travelers in their lodging house.

      Q. During the past few decades immigrants from Southeast Asia have been settling in Kansas. What percentage of Garden City's population is now comprised of Southeast Asians?

      A. 8 percent.

      Q. Kansas is covered with limestone, shales, sandstones, and coal, which are all what type of rock?

      A. Sedimentary.

      Q. When the sky turns a certain shade of green, what direction do Kansans turn to check the horizon for tornadoes?

      A. The southwest.

      Q. In Kinsley there is sign indicating that one destination is 1,561 miles east and the other is 1,561 miles west. The eastern destination is New York; what is the western?

      A. San Francisco.

      Q. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names has decided that the Kaw River's official name is what?

      A. The Kansas River.

      Q. A town in Kansas was named for this self-taught civil engineer who built bridges, four Kansas railroad lines, and gliders. What was his name?

      A. Octave Chanute (1832-1910).

      Q. Which county has the distinction of being Kansas's flattest, with an east to west change in elevation of only 100 feet?

      A. Haskell County.

      Q. What two rivers form the Kaw?

      A. The Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers.

      Q. Missouri's Osage River has a different name on the western side of the state line. What is it called in Kansas?

      A. The Marais de Cygne (pronounced MER-uh-duh-zeen)

      Q. At 4,039 feet, what's the highest spot in Kansas?

      A. Mount Sunflower.

      Q. When Mr. Keeney and Mr. Warren founded a town, what did they call it?

      A. WaKeeney.

      Q. When in Kansas how does one pronounce the name of the river that runs from the state's western border through Garden City, Dodge City, and Wichita?

      A. Ar-KAN-zuz.

      Q. What is the capital of Kansas?

      A. Topeka.

      Q. Which town derived its name by combining the names of two local tribes, the Osage and the Pottawatomie?

      A. Osawatomie.

      Q. This rock of Dakota Formation sandstone was a landmark on the Santa Fe Trail and was so named because Native Americans of the area often met at its summit. What is its name?

      A. Pawnee Rock.

      Q. Shunganunga Creek in Topeka takes its name from a Sioux word meaning what?

      A. Race horse.

      Q. Kansas has long been in conflict with what other state over water in the Arkansas River?

      A. Colorado.

      Q. In which city can one find streets named Hydraulic, Lulu, and Harry?

      A. Wichita.

      Q. There is a truck stop at the intersection of Interstate 35 and U.S. 75 called Beto Junction. What do the letters in Beto stand for?

      A. Burlington, Emporia, Topeka, and Ottawa.

      Q. What town had 572 residents in 1940 but was home to 111,790 by the time the 1990 census was taken?

      A. Overland Park, which is now the fourth largest city in the state.

      Q. There is Western Kansas and Eastern Kansas, but for all practical purposes no Central Kansas. Which half of the state has more area?

      A. Western Kansas.

      Q. This town calls itself the Home of the Governors as the following Kansas governors were born there: John R St. John, George Hodges, and John Anderson, Jr. In addition, Missouri's Governor Herbert S. Hadley and Idaho Governor James H. Brady also hail from what town?

      A. Olathe.

      Q. Which city is the second largest rail city in the United States?

      A. Kansas City, Kansas.

      Q. Neosho County formerly was called Dorn County. Why did residents change its name?

      A. Because Major Jackson Dorn, for whom the county was originally named, joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.

      Q. Frequently, in terms of geologic time, Kansas has been covered by what?

      A. An inland sea.

      Q. What town of nearly 18,000 is west of the rain and east of the aquifer, yet gets by with less water than most other Kansas communities?

      A. Hays.

      Q. Rivers in Kansas generally flow in which direction?

      A. East or southeast.

      Q. What is the name of the scenic highway that runs through the Flint Hills from Chatauqua to Hanover?

      A. The Prairie Parkway.

      Q. Approximately when did the last glacier in Kansas melt?

      A. One million years ago.

      Q. Where is the Prairie Chicken Capital?

      A. Cassoday.

      Q. When immigrants were homesteading Kansas, they could acquire an extra 160 acres of land if they planted 40 acres in what?

      A. Trees.

      Q. What river, part of which runs through Kansas, is the third longest in the U.S. at 1,459 miles?

      A. The Arkansas River.

      Q. What town declares itself the Barbed Wire Capital of the World?

      A. LaCrosse in Rush County.

      Q. Several counties in Kansas have had their names changed over the years. What was the major reason for changing a county's name?

      A. Most name changes occurred because the namesake was a Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War.

      Q. Who was Hugoton named for?

      A. French author Victor Hugo.

      Q. Kansas is spread over two geographic classifications. The eastern third of the state is in the Central Lowlands. What is the western two-thirds part of?

      A. The Great Plains.

      Q. There are few natural lakes in Kansas, and most of those were formed how?

      A. They are ox-bow lakes formed when a river changes course.

      Q. The rectangle of Kansas is a tilted plane. Which direction is the highest?

      A. West.

      Q. In 1995 what percentage of the Kansas population was of African-American descent?

      A. 6 percent.

      Q. What city in Kansas is named for the Indian words meaning Place to dig potatoes?

      A. Topeka.

      Q. What town was originally going to be named New Boston?

      A. Both Lawrence and Manhattan.

      Q. What town was first named Palmetto after the symbol for South Carolina?

      A. Marysville.

      Q.

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