All Things Twain
First Nations
Musical Musings
African-Americans
Women
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Cosmic events during the birth and death years of Mark Twain.
What are Hailey’s Comet Sightings?
100
Great Muddy
What is the translated meaning of the Missouri people from which the state is named?
100
A popular cultural celebration that occurs annually in St. Louis with attendance often second only to New Orleans.
What is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras?
100
A former slave who as a free man gained prominence as a compassionate and skilled horse trainer and founder of the American Royal Horse Show.
Who was Tom Bass?
100
She spent her formative years preforming in St. Louis prior to her renowned days of fame being showcased at the Revue Negre in Paris.
Who was Josephine Baker?
200
Florida, Missouri
What is birth place of Samuel Clemens?
200
Chickasaw, Illini, Ioway, Missouria, Osage, Oto, and Quapaw.
Who are nations of indigenous people whose historic homelands are located in the present day state of Missouri?
200
This particular musical style became popular in the 1940s-1960s and can be identified often by its piano based structure.
What is St. Louis blues music?
200
Dred Scott Supreme Court case.
What is the Supreme Court case that voided the Missouri Compromise?
200
Born Virginia Katherine McMath, her success from a vaudeville dancer to eventual leading actress in movies she attributes to Lela, her arts-inspired, business-minded mother who in her own right was accomplished as one of the first women Marines, journalist and Hollywood writer.
Who is Ginger Rogers?
300
Mississippi River
What is a physical aspect of Missouri’s landscape that often played an important backdrop in Twain's writings?
300
Van Meter State Park
Where is the Missouri American Indian Cultural Center located?
300
Anna Mae Bullock and Ike Wister Turner would eventually gain fame as a popular music act.
Who were the popular Ike & Tina Revue named after? Both artists would go on to win Grammy awards and other accolades for their work. Both Ike and Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2001 were inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
300
During the antebellum period, this region, which includes Arrow Rock and Saline County, had the highest percentage of black population in the state.
What is the Little Dixie region?
300
In 1873 she founded the first successful public kindergarten at Des Peres School in Carondelet, St. Louis, and ran it for the next eleven years without compensation. Children were taught in the morning and teachers in the afternoon.
Who was Susan Blow?
400
Warner McGuinn, Esq.
Who was a prominent African-American lawyer who Mark Twain supported during his final year of law school at Yale after a chance encounter with the once struggling student? Warner McGuinn later went on to mentor Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
400
In 1832, the Sauk and Fox tribes attempted to re-take their homeland in this.
What was the Black Hawk War, which occurred in Northern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin? The tribes were led by Chief Black Hawk.
400
Often referred to as The Statesman of Jazz, this Mizzou Alum currently serves as the Director of Jazz program at the University of Missouri Saint Louis campus.
Who is Jim Widner?
400
This documentary is about the destruction of the town of Pinhook, Missouri during the Heartland Flood of 2011 when the Birds Point-New Madrid levee was breached by the Army Corps of Engineers.
What is "Taking Pinhook" about?
400
She grew up in Missouri in a sheltered Jewish immigrant family. She shunned middle-class expectations for women at the time, did not complete college, married and kept her last name, and wrote provocative novels such as Lummox and The Imitation of Life that were made into movies.
Who is Fannie Hurst?
500
Sergeant Fathom, Rambler, Thomas Jefferson Snondgrass and W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab and Josh
What are other pseudonyms Samuel Clemens used in writings prior to settling on Mark Twain?
500
St. Genevieve or St. Louis.
What are the earliest permanent European settlements in Missouri? St. Genevieve was established initially in 1750 by French Canadian farmers. St. Louis was established in 1764 by Pierre Laclede Liguest with support of New Orleans merchant Gilbert Antoine Maxent to serve primarily as a fur trading post near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
500
Popular Columbia, Missouri music festival that features artists representing a variety of genres. American Blues Scene Magazine called it “One of the most prominent festivals in the country!” As well as live music, you can enjoy delicious BBQ also.
What is Roots n' Blues festival?
500
A steam boat docked in the neutral, non-slave territory of the Mississippi river provided sanctuary for Reverend John Berry Meachum's efforts to educate African-Americans in early St. Louis.
What was used to house the Freedom School?
500
Born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in St. Louis and Arkansas. She became one of the most influential voices of modern time as a celebrated poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. During her lifetime she was awarded over 60 honorary doctorate degrees.
Who was Maya Angelou?
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