Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - This Week in History: Oklahoma Land Rush

1. What signaled the start of the Oklahoma Land Rush at noon on April 22, 1889?

Horn

Fiddle

Bugle

Drum

Bagpipe

2. What movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman depicts the Oklahoma Land Rush?

Up, Up and Away

Sooners

Boomers

Far and Away

Oklahoma!

3. What mode of transportation moved settlers across the country during the economic boom of the 1870s and 1880s?

Stagecoach

Railroad

Wagon

Steamboat

Model T

4. The state nickname for Oklahoma is the "Sooner State," named for settlers who did what?

Entered the territory with land grants

Discovered the gold

Learned to whistle

Came after the it became an official state

Entered the territory before they received permission

5. Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907 making it what number state?

12th

46th

40th

35th

20th

6. Oklahoma! the Broadway musical was written by which famous composers?

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Siskel and Ebert

Jones and Smith

Gilbert and Sullivan

The Gershwins

7. Under Spanish and then French control, Oklahoma became part of the United States under what famous land purchase?

Louisiana Purchase

Seward's Folly

Northwest Territory

Mississippi Purchase

Nebraska Compromise

8. Native Americans were removed to Oklahoma as early as 1817, earning the territory what name?

Plains Territory

Indian Territory

Great Desert Territory

Old Spanish Territory

Great Plains Territory

9. Which president opened up the 1.9 million acres of Oklahoma land, some of which had been previously assigned to Native American tribes, to settlers?

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Benjamin Harrison

Chester A. Arthur

Theodore Roosevelt

10. A rush for what Oklahoman natural resource began in earnest in the early 1900s?

Oil

Gold

Salt

Silver

Aluminum