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These soft fidget toys can look like dumplings, fruit, or animals and slowly puff back up after you squeeze them.



What are squishies?


100


This 1862 law let eligible settlers claim up to 160 acres of public land.


What is the Homestead Act?

100


On the treeless plains, some settlers built homes from blocks of this material, made of grass and soil held together by roots.



What is sod?


100


A famine made it hard to find food at home. For people deciding to leave, this was which kind of factor?



What is a push factor?


100


In this movie, a clownfish named Marlin crosses the ocean to find his son.



What is Finding Nemo?


100


African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas in a later wave of migration were called this.



Who were the Exodusters?


100


Many Italian immigrants came to southeast Kansas to work in mines that produced this fuel.



What is coal?


100


This two-number meme comes with a gesture that looks like you’re weighing something in each hand.



What is six-seven? Accept 6–7 or 67.


200


These stuffed monsters look like they borrowed somebody’s dentures. Their name is short for Funny Ugly Monsters.



What are Fugglers?


200


A farmer who rents and works someone else’s land is called this.



A farmer who rents and works someone else’s land is called this.


200


With firewood scarce, settlers burned these dried animal droppings for cooking and heat.



What are buffalo chips?


200


Affordable farmland drew families to Kansas. For people deciding where to settle, this was which kind of factor?


What is a pull factor?

200


In this Disney movie, Mirabel is the only Madrigal child who doesn’t receive a magical gift.



What is Encanto?


200


This western Kansas town became a well-known African American settlement.



What is Nicodemus?


200


Swedish immigrants settled in this Kansas town, where they could practice their Lutheran faith.



What is Lindsborg?


200


You forgot there was a test and didn’t study. Your friend says, “You’re ___,” meaning you’re in trouble.



What is cooked?


300


This Pop Mart collectible has pointed ears and a toothy grin and often hangs from a backpack as a plush charm.



What is Labubu?


300


This law gave squatters the first chance to buy the public land they already occupied.



What is the Preemption Act?


300


Settlers used these wind-powered machines to bring water up from deep wells.



What are windmills?


300


A family moves to Kansas, then encourages relatives and neighbors to follow. This pattern has a name.



What is chain migration?


300


Miles Morales gets bitten by a radioactive spider and learns the ropes from Peter B. Parker in this animated movie.



What is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?


300


This man, nicknamed “Pap,” encouraged hundreds of African Americans to move to Kansas.



Who was Benjamin “Pap” Singleton?


300


Ernest de Boissière organized this cooperative French community in Kansas.



What is Silkville?


300


Your team has one minute left, so someone says this two-word phrase meaning “focus and get serious.”



What is lock in?


400


Nice Cube and Gumdrop are two shapes in this brand’s line of squeezable fidget toys.



What is NeeDoh?


400


Under the Homestead Act, settlers generally had to live on and farm their land for this many years before gaining ownership.



What is five years?


400


Railroad companies helped determine where towns grew by choosing where to build these.



What are railroad stations or depots?


400


Some Germans from Russia came to Kansas for cheap farmland and this freedom, which let them practice their faith.



What is religious freedom?


400


In this animated movie, a robot named Roz learns to survive on an island and raises a gosling named Brightbill.



What is The Wild Robot?


400


After slavery ended, these two conditions in the South helped push African Americans to leave.



What are racial discrimination and violence?


400


Meatpacking plants near this western Kansas city recruited many Southeast Asian workers.



What is Garden City?


400


Your friend keeps insisting their favorite player is perfect and can do no wrong. What’s the slang term for praising someone that much?



What is glazing?