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Can you answer five history questions concerning the history of six randomly-changing
U.S. states?
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Wisconsin
What famous Hungarian-born escape artist grew up in Wisconsin?
Harry Houdini
What serial killer, known as Milwaukee Cannibal, murdered 17 men and boys
from 1978 to 1991?
Jeffrey Dahmer
What political party was founded at a meeting at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon?
Republican Party
What event killed around 2,500 people in 1871?
Great Peshtigo Fire
What city, founded as a trading post in 1634, is the oldest in Wisconsin?
Green Bay
 
 
South Dakota
The idea of what landmark was conceived by historian Doane Robinson?
Mount Rushmore
What area in western South Dakota had a gold rush in the 1870s?
Black Hills
What is the name of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota people?
Wounded Knee
What lawman was known for his life on the frontier as a soldier?
Wild Bill Hickok
What Sioux warrior is subject of a gigantic uncompleted sculpture?
Crazy Horse
 
 
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
 
 
Rhode Island
Who founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts?
Roger Williams
What Ivy League university was established in Providence in 1764?
Brown
From 1930 to 1983, Rhode Island hosted the America's Cup races in what sport?
Sailing
In what city did many rich people build summer mansions during the Gilded Age?
Newport
What singer outraged fans by playing electric instruments at a 1965
folk festival in Rhode Island?
Bob Dylan
 
 
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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