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100

The only known mummies found in WV are in this city

What is Philippi?

100

Marshall University's football team suffered the deadliest plane crash in US history  in this year

What is 1970?

100

Official WV state colors

What are Old gold and royal blue?

100

This man was president of the UMWA District 17 at the time of the 1921 Miners' March on Logan

Who is Frank Keeney?

100

She had two different husbands killed during the Mine Wars in less than 15 months

Who was Jessie Testerman Hatfield?

200

The murder of this Indian chiefs family members led to an uprising in 1774 that culminated in the Battle of Point Pleasant

Who is Logan?

200

Fairmont native Mary Lou Retton became the first woman ever to win a gold medal in the Olympics in this year

What is 1984?

200

Official state bird

What is the northern cardinal?

200

Prior to the Civil War, this was the main method of transporting large amounts of coal

What are steamboats?
200

This county surpassed McDowell in 1955 as being the leading coal producing county in the nation

What is Logan?

300

The last public execution in WV happened in this city

What is Ripley?

300

This Princeton native drafted Michael Jordan to play for the Chicago Bulls

Who was Rod Thorn?

300

These occupations are represented on the state seal?

What are mining and farming?

300

The National Mine Health and Safety Academy is located in this city

What is Beaver?

300

This WV city is known to have the earliest organized baseball team

What is Wheeling?

400

This serial killer known as the "Bluebird of Quiet Dell" murdered at least five people in Clarksburg in 1931

Who was Harry Powers?

400

West Virginia's first state Black high school basketball championship was held in this year

What is 1925?

400

Official state tree

What is the sugar maple?

400

This many miners died in the Upper Big Branch Disaster in Raleigh County in 2010

What is 29?

400

This WV mine disaster prompted passage of the federal Coal Mine Health and Safetyn Act

What is Farmington?

500

This place in Mingo county has been described as a "notorious ambush site" where various unsolved crimes have happened

What is Dingess Tunnel?

500

Huntington native, Bill Campbell, was known as one of the greatest amateur athletes of this sport

What is golf?

500
US President who the state fossil is named after

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500
This is the most dangerous step in the room and pillar mining process

What is pulling the pillars?

500

This is the color of the official WV Legislature book

What is blue?
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