Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - How Well Do You Know Wisconsin?

1. Wisconsin was admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848, and became what state?

12th

10th

45th

20th

30th

2. Wisconsin is nicknamed what?

Badger State

Mole State

Steamer State

Beer State

Cheese State

3. Who was the first European explorer to discover Wisconsin's Lake Michigan?

Louis Joliet

Jacques Marquette

Jean Nicolet

Nicolas Perrot

Samuel de Champlain

4. Only after what war did the number of European-American settlers first increase in Wisconsin?

Revolutionary War

War of 1812

Civil War

French and Indian War

Napoleonic Wars

5. German political refugees found their way to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century. They brought with them German modes of education, and opened the first what in the United States in 1856?

Kindergarten

University

Lycee

College

Community College

6. Also a by-product of many German immigrants, what city became the home of four well-known brewers by the end of the nineteenth century?

Green Bay

Prairie du Chien

Boaz

Madison

Milwaukee

7. Great agriculture makes Wisconsin the leading producer of what in the U.S.?

Butter

Cheese

Milk

Eggs

Beef

8. What famous prairie author was born and partially raised in Pepin, Wisconsin?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Willa Cather

Emily Dickinson

Frances Trollope

Elizabeth Gaskell

9. The passage of what act led Alvan Bovay of Ripon, Wisconsin, to create a new political party against the expansion of slavery?

Northwest Ordinance

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Wisconsin Act

California Act

10. Wisconsinite Victor Berger was the first of what party to be elected to Congress in 1911?

Socialist

Whig

Democratic-Republican

Libertarian

Green Party