Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - This Week in History: The Show-Me State

1. Missouri became the 24th state on August 10, 1821, as a result of what important bargain between slave and free states?

Taft Act

Louisiana Purchase

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Nebraska Compromise

2. Which explorers started and ended their expedition in St. Louis?

Washington and Jefferson

Lewis and Clark

Armstrong and Aldrin

Raleigh and Scott

Magellan and Vasquez

3. Missouri Governor Boggs issued an "Extermination Order" in 1838 against what group?

Aliens

Catholics

Kansans

Latter-day Saints

Sioux

4. Mark Twain was born in 1835 in what Missouri town that serves as the hometown for his fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?

Hannibal

Carthage

St. Louis

Jefferson City

Kansas City

5. The 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis was memorialized in what musical movie from 1944?

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Guys and Dolls

Louisiana Purchase

Oklahoma!

Meet Me in St. Louis

6. Which president hails from Missouri?

Dwight Eisenhower

Lyndon Johnson

Harry Truman

Jimmy Carter

Thomas Jefferson

7. The St. Louis Arch is a tribute to what?

Westward expansion

The old west

Daylight savings

The parabola

The future

8. The largest brewer in the world hails from St. Louis. What is its name?

Seagram's

Anheuser-Busch

Corona

Coors

Budweiser

9. Which famous Missourian knew How to Win Friends and Influence People?

Judy Garland

Harry Truman

Mark Twain

Dale Carnegie

Merriweather Lewis

10. Missouri has an official state dessert. What is it?

Cobbler

Popsicle

Ice cream cone

Chocolate cake

Marshmallow