Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of Missouri State History

1. The eponymous Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri into the Union on August 10 of what year?

1815

1800

1821

1865

1850

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

Westward expansion

The old west

Daylight savings

The parabola

The future

3. 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

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

Aliens

Catholics

Kansans

Latter-day Saints

Sioux

6. 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

7. Which president hails from Missouri?

Dwight Eisenhower

Lyndon Johnson

Harry Truman

Jimmy Carter

Thomas Jefferson

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

Seagram's

Anheuser-Busch

Corona

Coors

Budweiser

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

Cobbler

Popsicle

Ice cream cone

Chocolate cake

Marshmallow

10. What type of public education opened in St. Louis in 1873?

Kindergarten

Parochial

Private

Middle school

High school