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Kansas City is the name of two different cities facing each other across a state line between Missouri and ________.
Kansas
100
Name a comfort food.
ALL ANSWERS ARE VALID, AND EARN POINTS.
100
How many fountains are officially registered in KC, not including fountains owned by companies? Points awarded if within 10pts.
200
100
Kansas City is called the “Paris of the Plains” because it has more boulevards than which famous French city?
Paris, of course!
100
Only a four hour drive away, which city on the other side of the state includes the famous Gateway Arch?
St. Louis
200
The famous animator Walt Disney met his signature pet in his studio on Troost, later named Mickey.
What’s a mouse?
200
At one point, it was illegal to serve ________ with cherry pie in Kansas.
ice cream (why, I can’t imagine)
200
March 23, 1912 set a record for most snowfall in a single day in Kansas City. Take a guess at how much snow fell, +/- inches will win points. Double points if you can convert it to feet correctly.
20.5 inches of snow! (1’8.5”)
200
One of KC’s biggest parking lots serves two major league stadiums. Name either stadium for points. (The entire complex, including both stadiums and the parking lot is called the Truman Stadium Complex)
Kauffman Stadium for the Royals & Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs
200
Shortly before the American Civil War broke out, Missouri entered the U.S. as a slave state, while which state nearby entered as a free state?
Kansas entered as a free state!
300
18th & Vine is an area of town known for its influence on the liquid music known as _____, made famous by instrumentalists like Duke Ellington and others…
jazz!
300
The Kansas state flower produces hundreds of seeds, which make for a great snack! What’s the flower’s name?
Sunflower
300
Before the KC ______, we were home to the KC Monarchs, the longest-running franchise of Negro Leagues baseball. What is our current baseball team’s name?
the Royals!
300
To celebrate the holiday season, the Country Club Plaza puts up lights around the shopping district, which are turned on the evening of…
Thanksgiving!
300
The state of Missouri is surrounded by how many other states? Double points for naming at least 4.
8 states! Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee
400
Kansas City is just south of the _______ River, where Lewis & Clark set out for a water bound trek to the Pacific Ocean.
Missouri River
400
Which McDonald’s kids’ meal was invented in KC, featuring a toy in every box?
the Happy Meal! :)
400
Name ONE of the Native American tribes who lived in the midwest and are alive in nearby place names.
Kansa, Missouri, Shawnee, Crow, Ohio, and more!
400
This large park in the south of KC, home to the Zoo and Starlight Theatre, is more than twice the size of NYC‘s Central Park.
Swope Park
400
Harry Truman, the U.S. president who followed FDR, was from this city east of KC named for a key American ideal.
Independence, MO
500
During Prohibition (alcohol was banned in the 1920s for a few years) Kansas City was mostly controlled by a crime family known as the __________.
Pendergast family
500
Name TWO original BBQs from Kansas City. Which one is your favorite?
Gates! Joe’s KC, Jack Stack, Arthur Bryant’s, LC’s, Q39, etc.
500
Kansas City has more _________ restaurants per capita (a.k.a. per person) than any other city in the U.S.!
Barbecue, of course!
500
The image below shows which museum in Kansas City, home to Vincent Van Gogh and Kehinde Wiley paintings and is free to visit!
The Nelson Atkins Art Museum
500
If you want to go to college after high school but stay in KC, there are plenty of colleges within the city. Guess how many colleges & universities are in KC! (+/- 5 gets points)
25+ colleges and universities!