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Kansas Seal
100
This 5 star general grew up in Abilene and went on to be he 34th president of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
First called Bluemont College, this land grant university is home to the all powerful, all knowing Wildcats. (Hint: It's not KU.)
What is Kansas State University
100
Kansas became a state on this date.
What is January 29, 1961?
100
This rolling hills in eastern Kansas are famous for their thousands of acres of tallgrass prairie.
What are the Flint Hills?
100
Name two of the three types of animals are featured on the state seal.
What are horses, buffalo, and oxen?
200
This famous aviatrix was born in Atchison.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
Originally called Fairmont College, this university in the regents system was once a municipal college.
What is Wichita State University?
200
This animal is the state reptile.
What is ornate box turtle?
200
Name the two time zones of Kanas.
What are Central and Mountain?
200
Featured on the seal, this motto translates to "To the Stars through Difficulties".
What is Ad Astra per Aspera?
300
This Spaniard left Mexico in 1540 in search of the Seven Cities of Gold, taking him into present day Kansas.
Who is Coronado?
300
Home of the Underground Salt Museum and the Kansas State Fair.
What is Hutchinson?
300
An official state emblem, it's scientific name is Populus deltoides?
What is the cottonwood?
300
This major trail that cut through Kansas carried settlers from various points on the Missouri River to the west coast?
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
This number of stars are featured on a blue sky on the seal.
What is 34?
400
This Kansan was severely wounded in Italy in World War II and later represented Kansas in the United States Senate?
Who is Bob Dole?
400
The site of the highest elevation in Kansas.
What is Mt. Sunflower?
400
These two individuals represent Kansas in the National Statuary Hall in the U. S. Capitol.
Who are John James Ingalls and Dwight David Eisenhower?
400
This cattle trail started in Texas and went through Oklahoma and Kansas, ending in railheads in Kansas as far north as Abilene.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
400
This is the only building featured on the state seal.
What is a log cabin?
500
Born in Wamego, this Kansan grew up in Ellis and went on to become an automobile executive.
Who is Walter Chrysler?
500
The geographical center of the contiguous United States is located in this Kansas County.
What is Smith County?
500
Name two of the animals depicted on the centennial seals.
What are buffalo, cattle/oxen, horses, and meadowlark?
500
The building that served as the first capitol of the Kansas territory is located on this military installation.
What is Ft. Riley?
500
The state seal was approved by the Kansas legislature in this year.
What is 1861?
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