Kansas Politics
Dwight D. Eisenhower was from this central Kansas town.
What is Abilene?
This Kansas Woman was no boozer. Her temperance movement became famous for her smashing saloons with a hatchet!
Who was Carry A. Nation?
This Kansas Jayhawk was the NFL's Rookie of the Year in 1965.
Who is Gayle Sayers?
This is the oldest city in Kansas
What is Leavenworth?
This Kansan from Emporia was a newspaper journalist and won two Pulitzer prizes. The Kansas School of Journalism is named after him.
This town not far from Lawrence was the territorial capitol in 1856. A slave state Constitution was authored and submitted from there.
What is Lecompton?
This famous Dodge City sheriff hunted buffalo, gambled, and was a U.S. marshal.
Who is William 'Bat' Masterson
Name the former Big 8 schools that left the conference for the Big 10 and Pac-10, respectively.
What are Nebraska and Colorado?
These two overland trails passed through Kansas heading westa nd were used by countless pioneers.
What are the Oregon and Santa Fe trails?
This African American poet and author grew up in Lawrence and Topeka.
Who is Langston Hughest
After Kansas was admitted to the Union this is the number of stars on the U.S. flag.
What is 34?
What is the nickname for the African American soldiers of the 10th US Calvary?
What are the Buffalo Soldiers?
This Stanford head basketball coach was married at the St. Lawrence Center.
Who is Jared Haase?
Which Kansas river once served as the border between the United States and Mexico?
What is the Arkansas?
Yes we have a state amphibian, of the striped tiger variety.
What is the salamander?
This new U.S. Senator from Kansas was recently called a 'moron' by Dr. Fauci.
Who is Roger Marshall?
Kansas was the first state to raise a military unit of this ethnicity.
What is African American?
This wing/fullback from Plainville, KS caught the two point conversion that broke KU's 8 year conference road losing streak.
Who is Jared Casey?
This sinkhole in Ashland Kansas is named after a famous well that Jesus Himself visited.
What is Jacob's well?
Kansas is the heart of the nation, (at least of the contiguous 48). This Kansas town named after a famous region of the Middle East marks the spot.
What is Lebanon?
This former Kansas governor served in Obama's cabinet as Health and Human Services Secretary.
Who is Kathleen Sebelius?
This frontier army scout who guided military units in Kansas was described by Custer as the most famous scout on the plains.
Who is James 'Wild Bill' Hickok?
This interim head coach at Maryland had his son baptized at the St. Lawrence Center, though it wasn't miraculous.
Who is Danny Manning?
The windiest city in Kansas is also the windiest in the nation. But it's not Wichita.
What is Dodge City?
You know you want to see the world's largest ball of twine. So you're headed here.
What is Cawker City?