Famous Kansans
This famous aviator was born in a small town in Kansas.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This Kansas town is known as the "little apple".
What is Manhattan?
Dorothy follows this toward the Emerald City.
What is the Yellow Brick Road?
Kansas is part of this region of the central United States famously associated with frequent tornadoes.
What is Tornado Alley?
This is the name of the official state bird of Kansas.
What is the Western Meadowlark?
This man went by the nick name “Ike” and grew up in Abilene.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Kansas town became famous for cattle drives and later served as the setting for Gunsmoke.
What is Dodge City?
Dorothy's farmhouse lands on which witch?
Who is the Wicked Witch of the East?
This song is the official state song of Kansas.
What is “Home on the Range”?
This is the official state tree of Kansas.
What is the Cottonwood?
This Kansas-born businessman founded the automobile company that still bears his last name.
Who is Walter Chrysler?
This Wichita landmark stands where the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers meet and features a 44-foot Native American sculpture.
What is the Keeper of the Plains?
What does the Tin Man believe he needs from the Wizard?
What is a heart?
What abolitionist became famous for his involvement in the conflict in Kansas before his later raid on Harpers Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
Kansas' state motto, Ad Astra Per Aspera, translates approximately to what English phrase?
What is “To the stars through difficulties”?
This NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 command module pilot, was born in St. Francis, Kansas.
Who is Ron Evans?
This city is both the largest city in Kansas and known as the “Air Capital of the World.”
What is Wichita?
In the 1939 movie, Dorothy's slippers are ruby red. What color are they in L. Frank Baum's original book?
What is silver?
This Kansas town was an important stopping place for travelers along the Santa Fe Trail to gather supplies before heading west.
What is Council Grove?
Kansas entered the Union in 1861 as which state number?
What is the 34th state?