Almost Heaven
In 1947 this Hamlin (Myra) West Virginia native was the 1st man to fly faster than the speed of sound. What is is name
Chuck Yeager
Secretary of State to President Jimmy Carter.
Cyrus Vance
•In November of 1863, Union troops under General William Averell defeated a Confederate force led by General John Echols and “Mudwall Jackson” at this battle.
Droop Mountain
Who said I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.
John Brown
What was the original name chosen for WV when delegates from western Virginia met in Wheeling in 1861 for the purpose of forming the state.
Kanawha
•What is the name of the World War II veteran from West Virginia for whom the U.S. Navy announced in 2016 it would name an expeditionary sea base ship?
Woody Williams
what was the name of the plane that broke speed barrier
Bell X-1
Glamerous Glennis
I was known as the miner’s angel and the “MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN AMERICA”
Mother Jones
•. Who was the first man to establish salt-works in the Kanawha Valley?
Elisha Brooks
Who was the 1st governor of West Virginia
Arthur Boreman
•What do all these people have in common: Earl Jones, Laverne Evans, Tim Kearney,, Chris Harrison and Darryl Odom.
drafted in 1984 NBA Draft
In 1947 this famous Jazz singer was convicted of possession of narcotics and served one year at , Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia where she endured a difficult detox.
Billie Holiday
In this year, four politicians all claimed to be Governor of West Virginia.
1888
•WV legendary steel driving man, whose life is the basis for one of the world’s best-known folk tales. His fame rests on a single epic moment when he raced the steam drill during the building of the Big Bend railroad tunnel.
John Henry
What major industry has found other uses for salt in the Kanawha Valley ?
Chemical
1st African-American admitted to practice law before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. He was one of the first lawyers in the nation to challenge segregated schools
JR Clifford
credited with founding Mother's Day in the United States. Designated as the second Sunday in May by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914
Anna Jarvis
•extremely fragile wetland ecosystem with a landscape more like Canada has seeds that t grew from root more than 10,000 years ago.
•Here plant lovers can glimpse at carnivorous, insect eating plants, like Pitcher’s Plant and Sundew.
Cranberry Glades
Who became governor in 1888
AB Fleming
This large-scale incident of occupational silicosis as the result of the construction of the Tunnel near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, as part of a hydroelectric project. This project is considered to be one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
Hawks Nest Diasater
The explorers who discovered the New River in 1671 weren't the first Europeans to reach the outer edges of what has become West Virginia. But the discovery gave England the clout it needed to lay claim to the entire Ohio Valley
Batts and Fallam
•These two future United States presidents served in West Virginia with the 23rd Ohio during the Civil War.
Hayes and McKinley
He has been described as a Renaissance man: publisher, editor, author, doctor, orator, judge, U.S. army major, political candidate and prison inmate (for defrauding a church), and the first African American to visit Africa as an explorer and entrepreneur. He was one of 1st three African Americans admitted to Harvard. Most importantly , father of black nationalism.
Martin Delaney
•Which wind farm on Backbone Mountain in Preston and Tucker were the first wind farms in West Virginia, and largest east of the Mississippi River.
Mountaineer Wind Energy Center
This civil rights movement , a activist organization founded by African-American intellectuals in 1905, had its first public meeting in the United States at Harpers Ferry
Niagara Movement
•What two historical awards do these two West Virginians have in common? Stanley Bender and Cornelius Charlton?
bridges on WV Turnpike
November 14 is the 50th anniversary of this tragedy
Marshall Plan Crash
•This National Football League Hall of Famer, was named the top defensive end of the NFL's first fifty years, was born in Smithers on January 2, 1927.
Gino Marchetti
Who said in 1960 The sun does not always shine in West Virginia, but the people always do, and I'm delighted to be here." This brought heavy applause.
JFK
Where can you find statues of soldiers honoring of WWI WWII Korean and Vietnam Wars?
WV Veterans Memorila State Capital complex