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What does "Ad Astra per Aspera" mean?
to the stars through difficulties
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What town is Kansas State in?
Manhatten
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What is the State Flower of Kansas?
sunflower
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What is the longest river in Kansas?
Arkansas River
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What is the most common nickname for the state of Kansas?
the Sunflower State
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What does the name Kansas mean?
people of the south wind or wind people
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What is the name of the town where Kansas University is located?
Lawrence
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What is the State Animal of Kansas?
American buffalo
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What geographical region is Kansas a part of? (2 acceptable answers)

Midwest, Great Plains

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What is the main crop grown in Kansas?
wheat
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What does Manifest Destiny mean?

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

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What is the capitol of Kansas?
Topeka
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What is the State Bird of Kansas?
Western Meadow Lark
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What are the 4 states that border Kansas?
Missouri (east), Nebraska (north), Oklahoma (south), and Colorado (west)
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What is the name of our state song?
Home on the Range
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What is a Jayhawker?

Antislavery guerrilla during the Bleeding Kansas era.

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What is the largest county in Kansas by population?

Johnson County
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What is the State Tree of Kansas?
Cottonwood
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What is the highest point in Kansas?
Mount Sunflower
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Which President was a Kansan?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Wichita is a Native American word meaning what?

painted face

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What is the largest county by geographical size in the state of Kansas?

Butler County

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What is the State Reptile of Kansas?
Ornate Box Turtle
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Where is the state's largest swimming pool?
Garden City
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What famous trail used for trade and military purposes extends through part of Kansas?

the Santa Fe Trail

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