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100
What is the state bird?
mockingbird
100

What Hot Springs, Arkansas-born actor, filmmaker, and musician has been legally married 6 times and starred in the 2004 film Friday Night Lights?

Billy Bob Thorton

100
What culture built the Toltec Mounds?
Plum Bayou Culture
100
After the French and Indian Wars, France ceded the land of present-day Arkansas to this country
Spain
100
More of this finny treat is eaten in Arkansas than in any other state in the Union
catfish
200

What tasty-sounding plant has been the official state flower of Arkansas since 1901?

The Apple Blossom

200

What sweet biscuit topping is often attributed with Arkansas and typically contains flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, milk, and salt?

Chocolate Gravy

200
Who were the first Europeans to enter Arkansas?
the Spanish
200
In 1861, Arkansas seceded from the union and joined this group
Confederate States of America
200
The first of these stores was opened in Rogers in 1962
Walmart
300
What is the state gem?
diamond
300

American lawman who was one of the first deputy U.S. marshals of African descent in the American West.

Bass Reeves
300

Who was considered to be the first Spaniard to enter Arkansas?


DOUBLE JEOPARDY! 

Hernando de Soto

300
Although Arkansas was officially a Confederate state, almost 15,000 men from northern Arkansas fought for this group
Union
300
This river is the third longest in the united States
Arkansas River
400

Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts, and Jefferson Thomas are frequently named collectively as what three-word phrase associated with the state of Arkansas?

The Little Rock Nine
400

The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate was from Arkansas elected November 1932.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

Hattie Caraway

400
Who was the explorer who spotted and named the rock outcropping that eventually came to be known as Little Rock?
Bernard de La Harpe
400
The biggest and bloodiest Civil War battle in Arkansas was where?
Pea Ridge
400
The original name given to Little Rock by Bernard de La Harpe
Petit Roche
500

She is an internationally renowned bestselling author, and poet, as well as a pioneering activist. She is most well known for her 1970 bestselling novel. 


Maya Angelou

500

A southern version of Big Foot has been sighted near Fouke, Arkansas. Rumored to be be seven feet tall and covered in hair, what is the name of this legendary creature that kills chicken, cattle, dogs and livestock?

Boggy Creek Monster

500
Who was the Scottish financier who attempted to established a European settlement near Arkansa Post, but failed.
John Law
500
By the end of 1863 Helena, Little Rock, and Fort Smith were under the control of this army
Union army
500
Arkansas' first newspaper
Arkansas Gazette
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