Education in Iowa
Iowa State Fair
Farming
Iowa Food
The Land of Iowa
100
This University had a hand in developing the atomic bomb.
What is Iowa State University
100
There are nearly this number of foods “on-a-stick” available at the Iowa State Fair
What is 70
100
This is Iowa's ranking in the nation's list of the most productive agricultural states in the U.S.
What is third
100
Quaker Oats is the largest cereal company in the world and is located in this Iowa city.
What is Cedar Rapids
100
Because of these two rivers, Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water.
What are the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
200
This college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is one of only two colleges in the nation to have every building on its campus on the National Register of Historic Places
What is Cornell College
200
The first Iowa State Fair was held October 25 to 27,1854 in this town.
What is Fairfield
200
Iowa has at least 11,000 different kinds of this which helps the state have such success in agriculture.
What is soils
200
This type of apple was first developed in Iowa by Jesse Hiatt during the 1880s.
What is Red Delicious
200
Iowa has more of these areas, used for sport and recreation, per capita than any other state in the U.S.
What are golf courses
300
Founded in 1847, this school was the first public university to be started within the state
What is the University of Iowa
300
With 1,008,174 people in attendance, this year was the first time that the Fair had more than 1 million visitors.
What is 2002
300
This animal outnumbers humans in Iowa at a 4:1 ratio
What are hogs
300
Iowa is home to the largest spice plant in North America which is ran by this company.
What is Tone’s Spices
300
Until early in this century, Iowa was occupied exclusively by Indians and a few European traders, with loose political control by France and Spain
What is the 19th century
400
This school is the oldest land grant college in the U.S.A.
What is Iowa State University
400
This amount was the budget for the first Iowa State Fair.
What is $323
400
Iowa is considered to be one of the safest state in the U.S. to live in which is not surprising since the state is comprised of this percentage of farmland
What is 92%
400
The ice cream capital of the world can be found in Le Mars, Iowa, home to Wells Dairy, which is known for making this brand of ice cream products.
What is Blue Bunny
400
It's a myth that this Iowa lake is one of three "true blue" lakes in the world.
What is Okoboji Lake
500
The first schoolhouse in Iowa was built in 1830 in this county.
What is Lee County
500
Two time capsules have been buried in honor of the State Fair. The first time capsule was buried to mark the Fair’s 100th birthday in 1954 and is slated to be opened in 2054; the other, was buried in 1986 to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Fair's change in this and will be opened in 2086.
What is the location
500
Iowa contributed a disproportionate amount of young men to fight in this war, and afterwards they returned to help transform Iowa into an agricultural powerhouse, supplying food to the rest of the nation
What is the American Civil War
500
Otto Rohwedder, from this Iowa city invented the first bread slicing machine
What is Davenport
500
In 1840, this Indian tribe was forced off its homeland in Wisconsin and was offered protection on temporary land in Iowa by the US government. Thus, Fort Atkinson, the only fort built by the U.S. government for Indian use, was completed in 1842 for this tribe.
What is the Winnebago Indian Tribe
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