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What is the capital of Virginia?
Charlottesville
Richmond
Norfolk
Roanoke
What is Richmond?
What city in Virginia was the Capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War?
Jamestown
Williamsburg
Charlottesville
Richmond
What is Richmond?
Where is the Shenandoah National Park located?
Central Virginia
Western Maryland
West Virginia
Northern Virginia
What is north-central Virginia?
(The majority of the park is in central Virginia.)
What is the nickname for Virginia?
The Volunteer State
The Old Dominion
The Magnolia State
The Pine State
What is The Old Dominion?
(King Charles II granted the nickname in the 1600s as a reward for the colony's unwavering loyalty to the English Crown during the English Civil War.)
In 1996, a group of Mormon businessmen acquired a two year women's college and turned it into a four-year coeducational school with a Brigham Young University-like honor code. What is the name of this school?
Zion University
LDS Business College
Southern Virginia University
BYU-Virginia
What is Southern Virginia University?
(Southern Virginia University is a private liberal arts college in Buena Vista, Virginia. The college embraces the values of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It has more than 1000 students of which 90% are members.)
What is the state flower and state tree of Virginia?
Rose
Bluebell
Dogwood
Daisy
What is the Dogwood?
(Flower-American Dogwood, Tree-Flowering Dogwood)
What is the name of Thomas Jefferson’s famous Virginia estate?
Monticello
Springwood
Mount Vernon
The Beehive House
What is Monticello?
What mountain range is located in western Virginia?
Appalachian Mountains
Ozark Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Nevada Mountains
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Virginia is nicknamed the "Mother of Presidents." How many Presidents were born in Virginia?
0
4
8
20
What is 8 Presidents?
What time do missionaries get up in the morning and go to bed at night?
6 am-10 pm
6:30 am-10:30 pm
7:00 am-11:00 pm
7:00 am-10:30 pm
6:30 am - 10:30 pm
What is the state beverage of Virginia?
Tea
Milk
Coffee
Juice
What is Milk?
(In 1981, New York became the first state to make milk its official drink. Farmers in Virginia and across the country quickly followed suit to boost agricultural demand, eventually leading to more than 20 U.S. states adopting the same beverage.)
Who was Virginia's first elected Governor?
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Edmund Randolph
Who is Patrick Henry?
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
What is Virginia's largest city?
Richmond
Norfolk
Arlington
Virginia Beach
What is Virginia Beach? (452,000)
(Chesapeake- 256,000, Arlington-241,000, Richmond-239,000, Norfolk 233,000)
Virginia has been dubbed the _____ Capital of the world.
Internet
Peanut
Apple
Gun
What is the internet?
(Virginia is known as the "Internet Capital of the World" primarily because an estimated 70% of global internet traffic passes through the state daily, specifically through Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley".)
How many missions are in or partly in Virginia?
3
5
7
9
What are 9 missions?
3 missions include the state name: Virginia Richmond Mission, Virginia Chesapeake Mission, and the Virginia Norfolk Mission .
Due to overlapping geographical boundaries, several neighboring missions extend across state lines. Washington D.C. South Mission, Washington DC North Mission, West Virginia Charleston Mission, Maryland Baltimore Mission, Tennessee Knoxville Mission, and North Carolina Charlotte Mission.
What is the official state bird of Virginia?
Northern Cardinal
Blue Jay
American Robin
Bald Eagle
What is the Northern Cardinal?
What is the oldest college in Virginia?
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
James Madison University
College of William and Mary
What is the college of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia founded in 1693?
What famous river forms part of the border between Virginia and West Virginia?
Delaware River
Ohio River
Hudson River
Potomac River
What is the Potomac River?
Virginia Beach is known as which of the following?
The Hollywood of the East
The City of Lights
The Resort City
The Beach Town
What is the Resort City?
How many members of the Church of Jesus Christ live in Virginia?
48,123
62,896
99,973
165,524
What is 99,973 total church membership?
(25 Stakes, 177 Wards, 35 Branches, 46 FamilySearch Centers)
(Utah 2,206,370 members)
Virginia's academic calendar is largely based off of:
The government
Religious holidays
Hunting season
Amusement Parks
What are Amusement Parks?
(Virginia’s theme parks have ruled over the state’s academic calendar since 1986, when lobbyists for the state tourism industry helped usher through a bill prohibiting public schools in the state from opening before Labor Day, ensuring that kids would never have to choose between homework and roller coasters before the first Monday of September.)
Virginia is one of only four states in the U.S. that are officially designated as what?
Territory
Dominion
Commonwealth
Republic
What is a Commonwealth?
(The four commonwealths (Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania) simply chose that term in their original constitutions to emphasize a government founded for the "common good". There is no legal or political difference between a state and a commonwealth.)
Virginia shares its borders with five other states. What are the five states?
What is Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
Who is the state of Virginia named after?
-Verginia-A legendary Roman woman
-Queen Elizabeth I-The Queen at the time
-Virginia Dare-The very first English child born in the New World
-Chief Wingina-A play on words of a local Secotan chieftain's name.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
Queen Elizabeth I was known as "The Virgin Queen" because she never married. She was a symbol of a pure, dedicated monarch "married" only to England and its expanding territories.
What page number of the hymn book would you find "Called to Serve?"
page 249