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100

The city of the first born King child

What is Bettendorf?

100

John Deere is from this Quad City

What is Moline?

100

This group of people made the first music in Iowa and Nebraska.

American Indians (tribal music(

100

University of Iowa Football Team 

What is The Hawkeyes

100

This film was made in 1989 in Dyersville, Iowa.  The major diamond and cornfield are a major tourist destination. 

What is Field of Dreams?

200

This river city saw a new life in 2011, William Roger. 

What is Davenport, IA

200


This major river runs through the Quad Cities

Daily Double:Does this river run North to South or East to West?

The Mississippi River

Travels East to West ONLY in Quad Cities

200

This was the most prominent instrument in early Iowa music history

The fiddle

200

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

What is The Nebraska Cornhuskers

200

This multi platinum comedian grew up in Nebraska.  “Git R Done!”  “I don’t care who ya are that’s funny”

Who is Larry the Cable Guy?

300

Between Iowa and Nebraska, this state produces more corn. 

What is Iowa?

300

Name all four Quad Cities

What is Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock Island

300

This state is known for the Indie Rock scene, centers around the “Omaha Sound” from the 1990s and 2000s

Nebraska

300

Minor League Baseball team in the Quad Cities

What is the Quad City Bandits?

300

While primarily filmed in South Dakota, this Best Picture-winning epic utilized Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska for the surrender of the last band of free Sioux Indians. (1990)

What is Dances with Wolves?

400

THE Capital of IOWA

What is DES MOINES?

400

The Cornhusker State

What is Nebraska?

400

How were Richie Valen, The Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly killed in Iowa on February 3, 1959?


Daily Double: Name a Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valen or Big Bopper Song

What is a plane crash?


What is Peggy Sue or That’ll be the day that I die-Buddy Holly

Richie Valen sang La Bamba

Big Bopper-Johnny be good, chantilly lace

400

This women’s softball team competes in the Big Ten Conference and plays their home games at Bob Pearl Field in Iowa City, Iowa

What is University of Iowa Hawkeyes?

400

This popular film was set in Iowa and Oklahoma for the storm chasing background. Filmed in 1996.

what is Twister?

500

CAPITAL OF NEBRASKA

what is LINCOLN?

500

Arbors Day was founded in this state in 1972

What is Nebraska?

500

Because of this railroad, Omaha became a critical stop on the famous “Chitlin Circuit,” where major national acts like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Ray Charles performed at the Dreamland and Carnation ballrooms. 

What is the Union Pacific Railroad

500

This is the most popular sport in Iowa and Nebraska.

What is Football (American)?

500

The SETTING of this movie took place in Iowa in a fictional town named Endora.  Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprrio shot most of the film in Texas.

What is “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”

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