Wisconsin
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What famous Hungarian-born escape artist grew up in Wisconsin?
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Harry Houdini
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What serial killer, known as Milwaukee Cannibal, murdered 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991?
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Jeffrey Dahmer
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What political party was founded at a meeting at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon?
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Republican Party
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What event killed around 2,500 people in 1871?
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Great Peshtigo Fire
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What city, founded as a trading post in 1634, is the oldest in Wisconsin?
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Green Bay
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South Dakota
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The idea of what landmark was conceived by historian Doane Robinson?
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Mount Rushmore
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What area in western South Dakota had a gold rush in the 1870s?
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Black Hills
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What is the name of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota people?
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Wounded Knee
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What lawman was known for his life on the frontier as a soldier?
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Wild Bill Hickok
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What Sioux warrior is subject of a gigantic uncompleted sculpture?
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Crazy Horse
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Utah
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Who succeded Joseph Samith as President of the Mormons, and led the them west?
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Brigham Young
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What was made illegal in 1890?
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Polygamy
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What train and bank robber was born as Robert LeRoy Parker?
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Butch Cassidy
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What family music group originated from Ogden, Utah in the 1970s?
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The Osmonds
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What major event was hosted by Salt Lake City in 2002?
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Winter Olympics
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Rhode Island
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Who founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts?
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Roger Williams
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What Ivy League university was established in Providence in 1764?
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Brown
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From 1930 to 1983, Rhode Island hosted the America's Cup races in what sport?
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Sailing
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In what city did many rich people build summer mansions during the Gilded Age?
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Newport
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What singer outraged fans by playing electric instruments at a 1965 folk festival in Rhode Island?
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Bob Dylan
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Kansas
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What five-star general from Kansas served as the President?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What is the term for the violent era when Kansas decided whether to become a free state or a slave state?
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Bleeding Kansas
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What famous frontier town was once the ending point for cattle drives?
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Dodge City
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What Kansas resident's lawsuit against the Board of Education led to a 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation?
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Oliver Brown
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What Kansan aviatrix disappeared over the Pacific?
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Amelia Earhart
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