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Can you answer five history questions concerning the history of six randomly-changing
U.S. states?
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Idaho
What were the original trading European settlers in Idaho looking for?
Fur
What was designed by Emma Edwards in 1891 - the only to have
been designed by a woman?
Seal of Idaho
What author bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho and committed suicide in 1961?
Ernest Hemingway
What Lemhi Shoshone women helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Sacagawea
What daredevil tried to jump over the Snake River in a steam-powered rocket?
Evel Knievel
 
 
Louisiana
What group of people settled in Louisiana after being exiled from
eastern Canada in the 1700s?
Acadians (Cajuns)
What was the first name of President Taylor?
Zachary
What day was declared an official state holiday in 1875?
Madri Gras
Who was President when the United States bought Louisiana from France in 1803?
Thomas Jefferson
What depression-era governor, nicknamed "Kingfish", was assassinated in 1935?
Huey Long
 
 
Virginia
Who is Virginia named for?
Queen Elizabeth
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas?
Jamestown
What country was Richmond the capital of between 1861-65?
Confederate States
What is the name of George Washington's estate?
Mount Vernon
What Native American woman saved John Smith from execution? (according to legend)
Pocahontas
 
 
Arkansas
What corporation, founded by Sam Walton, became world's largest corporation in 2002?
Walmart
What former Governor of Arkansas became the President?
Bill Clinton
What ex-governor ran for President in 2008 and 2016?
Mike Huckabee
What city was the birthplace of both of those governors?
Hope
What practice were the federal troops call in to end in schools in the 1950s?
Segregation
 
 
Kansas
What five-star general from Kansas served as the President?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What is the term for the violent era when Kansas decided whether to
become a free state or a slave state?
Bleeding Kansas
What famous frontier town was once the ending point for cattle drives?
Dodge City
What Kansas resident's lawsuit against the Board of Education led to a 1954
Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation?
Oliver Brown
What Kansan aviatrix disappeared over the Pacific?
Amelia Earhart
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