State Animals
What is the state mammal?
Buffalo
What year did Kansas become a state?
1861
What is the state tree?
Cottonwood
What state is south of Kansas?
Oklahoma
What is the state nickname?
Sunflower state
What is the state insect?
Honeybee
What insect plague came to Kansas and killed all of the settlers crops?
Grasshoppers
Kansas was named after what Indian tribe?
Kansa Indians
Capitol of Kansas
Topeka
Kansas is the what # state?
34th
What is the state reptile?
Ornate Box Turtle
What was the dust bowl?
Dust storms during the 1930s
What is the state song?
Home on the Range
What is the highest point in Kansas called?
Mount Sunflower
Number of counties in Kansas
105
What is the state amphibian?
Barred Tiger Salamander
He was a police officer in Wichita and a marshal in Dodge City during the cowboy days
Wyatt Earp
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? (Hint: she was from KS)
Amelia Earhart
Another name for Kansas grasslands
Prairie
Ad Astra per Aspera (to the stars through difficulty)
What is the state bird?
Western Meadowlark
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about her life on the Kansas prairie? (HINT: we watched a movie about it, it is outside Indy)
Little House on the Prairie
This man was a famous playwright from Independence (Hint: ICC has a festival every year named after him)
William Inge
What is the river that forms the northeastern border of Kansas?
Missouri River
Name the 2 trails that went through the state of Kansas?
Santa Fe Trail & Oregon Trail