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Can you answer five history questions concerning the history of six randomly-changing
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Utah
Who succeded Joseph Samith as President of the Mormons, and led the them west?
Brigham Young
What was made illegal in 1890?
Polygamy
What train and bank robber was born as Robert LeRoy Parker?
Butch Cassidy
What family music group originated from Ogden, Utah in the 1970s?
The Osmonds
What major event was hosted by Salt Lake City in 2002?
Winter Olympics
 
 
Wyoming
What was the first national park in the world?
Yellowstone
Wyoming was the first state to grant what people the right to vote?
Women
What Wyoming politician has been called the most powerful Vice President of all-time?
Dick Cheney
What city was founded by Buffalo Bill?
Cody
What nickname did Harry Alonzo Longabaugh receive after stealing a horse in Wyoming?
Sundance Kid
 
 
Nebraska
What business tycoon was world's 2nd richest person in 2017?
Warren Buffett
What tree-planting holiday started in Nebraska in 1872?
Arbor Day
What Nebraskan ran for President several times, served as Secretary of State, wanted
to ban the teaching of evolution, and gave the famous "Cross of Gold" speech?
William Jennings
Bryan
World’s largest exhibited skeleton of what extinct mammal was found on a farm
in Lincoln County in 1922?
Mammoth
What U.S. President was born in Nebraska but grew up in Michigan?
Gerald Ford
 
 
Florida
What hurricane devastated South Florida in 1992?
Hurricane Andrew
What beverage was invented to help the Florida Gators football team in 1965?
Gatorade
What bearded, daiquiri-loving novelist lived in Key West from 1931 to 1939?
Ernest Hemingway
What city, founded in 1565, is the oldest European settlement in the U.S.?
St. Augustine
Who is given credit as the first European to explore Florida?
Juan Ponce de León
 
 
Illinois
What was the world's tallest building from 1973-1998?
Sears Tower
What team was accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series?
Black Sox
What Civil War general lived in Galena, Illinois?
Ulysses S. Grant
What Chicago talk show host became the richest African-American person?
Oprah Winfrey
What historic highway starts in Chicago and ends in Santa Monica, California?
Route 66
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