Kansas Trivia
All Around Our State
This Land is Our Land
Early Days
Patriotic People
100
The Kansas state bird
What is the western meadowlark?
100
The state that borders Kansas in the west?
What is Colorado?
100
The highest point in Kansas
What is Mount Sunflower?
100
He searched for gold on behalf of the king of Spain where the Kansas River is formed by other rivers.
Who was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
100
He blazed the Chisholm Trail so that cattle could be driven from Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
Who was Jesse Chisholm?
200
The Kansas state tree
What is the cottonwood?
200
The state that borders Kansas in the north
What is Nebraska?
200
The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is one mile north of this city.
What is Lebanon?
200
He claimed all the land drained by the Mississippi River for France
Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle?
200
The man responsible for establishing the Santa Fe Trail.
Who was William Becknell?
300
The sunflower
What is the Kansas state flower?
300
The river that forms the northeastern border of Kansas
What is the Missouri River?
300
A hilly, forested region in the northeastern section of the state.
What are the dissected Till Plains?
300
The United States acquired a large territory including Kansas under this agreement with France.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
300
He introduced a bill in Congress to create two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
400
The Kansas state mammal
What is the buffalo?
400
The state that borders Kansas in the south
What is Oklahoma?
400
Another name for the Kansas grasslands
What is prairie?
400
The Kansa, Pawnee, Osage, and Kiowa Apache
Who were the Native Americans living in the region known as Kansas?
400
She carried on a crusade to enforce temperance by smashing saloons with an axe.
Who was Carry Nation?
500
The Kansas state insect
What is the Honeybee
500
The region of the country where Kansas is located
What are the Great Plains?
500
Located on a ranch in Osborne County, it is the continent's center which includes corrections for the curvature of the earth.
What is the geodetic center?
500
In 1806, he traveled through Kansas to make a peace treaty with the Indians.
Who was Zebulon Montgomery Pike?
500
Brave riders who delivered the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California.
Who were the Pony Express Riders?
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