Born in Dickinson County, KS in 1932, he has the distinction of being the youngest Air Force officer to wear astronaut's wings
Who is Joe Engle?
100
She was the first woman governor of Kansas.
Who is Joan Finney?
100
She was the student whose 1951 case struck down the separate but equal schools in Topeka KS.
Who is Linda Brown (Buckner)?
100
Although he did not introduce Turkey Red wheat to Kansas, this Halstead grain miller was the first to make growing hard red wheat profitable.
Who is Bernard Warkentin?
100
Keeper of the Plains, the 44-foot steel sculpture at the junction of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas in Wichita, KS is one of his works.
Who is Blackbear Bosin?
200
Born in St. Francis, KS in 1933, he was one of the original 19 men selected for the NASA space program.
Who is Ron Evans?
200
He was Kansas's only U.S. president.
Who is Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower?
200
Living all his life in Phillips county Kansas, this independent oil operator left a foundation which gives away over half a million dollars each year to organizations and students in northwestern Kansas.
Who is Dane Hansen?
200
This Hesston farm equipment manufacturer reached a peak in 1975 with sales over $200 million.
Who is Lyle Yost?
200
When she won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, she was the first blak woman to receive the award.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
300
After flying on five space shuttle missions, he has returned to Kansas to teach and promote education in science and math at the University of Kansas.
Who is Steve Hawley?
300
Although he ran for U.S. president twice, he never became the president.
Who is Robert "Bob" Dole?
300
In 1897 she was granted a license to pratice law in Kansas, making her the first African-American woman lawyer in the United States.
Who is Lutie Lytle?
300
He made his fortune by building cattle pens and loading chutes next to the railroads in Abilene, Kansas for Texas cattle herds.
Who is Joseph McCoy?
300
This Hays sculptor's favorite medium is limestone.
Who is Pete Felten (Jr.)?
400
He is the archaeologist who worked in Rice County before deciding it was the area that Coronado called Quivira in 1541.
Who is Waldo Wedel?
400
A popular Kansas governor, he lost in his campaign for president against the popular FDR in 1936.
Who is Alf Landon?
400
This mental hospital located north of Topeka, Kansas is named after the father and sons whose therapy included physical exercise and a "mixture of Freud and friendliness."
What is Menningers?
400
Alexander Hyde developed this over-the-counter medication that was mild enough to treat the nose or eyes but strong enough to use on sore muscles.
What is Mentholatum?
400
His best known book The Last Cattle Drive is a 1977 book about modern Kansas.
Who is Robert Day?
500
The U.S. Army asked him to preserve the remains of the horse Comanche, the only survivor found on the Little Bighorn battlefield, after Custer's defeat.
Who is Lewis Lindsay Dyche?
500
Unlike her fellow Republicans, she has supported laws to limit the purchase of handguns and semiautomatic weapons.
Who is Nancy (Landon)Kassebaum?
500
Believed to be the first Christian martyr in the present United States, this priest has memorials in Council Grove, Herington, and near Lyons, Kansas.
Who is Juan de Padilla?
500
The Foley brothers, Daniel and Robin, started this chain of fast-food Mexican restaurants.
What is Taco Tico?
500
His works: varies from writing a biography of poet Emily Dickinson, to practising psychiatry, to painting giant silk moths.