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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
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