WCH History
WCH Trivia
Wichita Trivia
Wichita History
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100
This is written on the cornerstone on the front porch
What is builded in 1910?
100
This is the WCH Code for a bomb scare?
What is Code Orange?
100
This is the 12th largest statue in the US
What is the Keeper of the Plains? (44 feet tall)
100
The largest latex and mylar balloon company in the country
What is Pioneer Balloon Company?
100
This famous celebrity who was raised in Wichita has visited the WCH
Who is Kirsty Alley?
200
This is the year that the WCH was founded
What is 1888
200
This is the acronym for BRIDGES
What is Building Responsibility and Independence through Developing Goals and Empowerment Skills?
200
Last year during a Wing Nut game they tried to break the world record for this largest game
What is Duck Duck Goose?
200
Back in the day, this was an old adult theater
What is the Orpheum?
200
This is the number of WCH staff couples that have fallen in love and gotten married
What is 3 couples?
300
This special item was on all the breakfast, lunch, and dinner tables at the WCH for over 100 years
What is white tablecloths?
300
The name that the WCH ghost of Imogene Hancock is more commonly known
What is the Little Girl in the Red Shoes?
300
This is the 1st basketball team in history to fly to an away game
Who is WSU Shocker Basketball team?
300
Founding brothers settled on this name after they realized the look of the building and that they only had room for 9 latters on the sign
What is the origin of the name for PIZZA HUT?
300
Former board president Doris Nelson's son Forrest, succeeded in accomplishing this great task
What is Swam the English Channel?
400
The children sang this song every Sundey in the early 1900's on their way to church
What is "Onward Christian Soldiers"?
400
This happened to the therapy dog of one of the employees from the home
Who's ashes are strewn in the courtyard at the Home?
400
This Country Music Video by Craig Morgan was produced in Wichita in 2007
What is International Harvester?
400
This restaurant started in Wichita in 1921, left Wichita in 1938 and is still in existence today
What did White Castle originate?
400
This famous TV star visited the Home in the 1940's
Who is Rin Tin Tin?
500
This is the number of children's graves that exist at the Maple Grove Cemetery from children that died at the home in the late 1800's and early 1900's
What is 18?
500
In early years, the Home matron would spank the children with her hairbrush. In hopes of stopping these spankings the girls did this
What is bury her hairbrush in the yard?
500
In 1895 this college was started in Wichita and later became known at WSU
What is Fairmount College? They also hosted the first night college football game west of the MS in 1905 where businessmen used lanterns from Coleman to light the field.
500
This comic strip is set in Wichita and the author was named honorary mayor
Where does Dennis the Menace take place? The author is Hal Ketchum.
500
Pat Wilson/Hobson/Rank was president of the board both during the 1960's and the late 1980's and was a special person for this reason
Who's grandmother founded the WCH?
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