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He was an American writer and developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Famous books include, How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.
Who is Dale Carnegie?
100
St. Louis, Kansas City, Dickerson and Promise Land.
What are zoos in Missouri?
100
This John Hughes film chronicles the mishap adventures of executive Neal Page (Steve Martin), trying to make it home from New York to Chicago for Thanksgiving, as he joined by the world’s worst travelling companion, Del Griffith (John Candy).
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
200
His life is frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures—real and legendary—were influential in creating the Western hero archetype of American folklore. In American popular culture, he is remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen and bridge between Indigenous people and European settlers.
Who is Daniel Boone?
200
These insects will be a buzz about your garden if you plant cone flowers, black-eyed susans and blanket flowers.
What are bees?
200
This film is credited as Jennifer Lawrence's break out role as a teenager in the rural Ozarks. The plot explores the interrelated themes of family ties and community, self-reliance and poverty set against the impact of methamphetamine trade.
What is Winter's Bones?
300
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain & Tom Sawyer are just a few iconic writings of this Missouri born author.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
This disease is typified by chronic weight loss leading to death. It is difficult to identify often without an autopsy. To prevent the spread of this disease to local deer populations, some states have approved mass-killings.
What is Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD?
300
This 1990s TV show was based in a small Missouri town exploring the blue-collar lives of a divorced single mother who is a recovering alcoholic set on making a fresh start and preventing her children from making the same mistakes she did.
What is Grace Under Fire?
400
He served as the first Dean of the School of Journalism and credited for writing "The Journalist Creed," which is still taught in college courses and held as a professional standard today.
Who is Walter Williams?
400
Elephant Ear Fish, Greater Prairie-Chicken, Gray Wolf, Mead's Milkweed, Peregrine Falcon and Yellow Mud Turtle.
What are examples of threatened and endangered plants and wildlife? More than 600 kinds of plants and 324 different animals in Missouri fall under these categories.
400
This cable station made a mid-way truck stop location very popular.
What is The Travel Channel?
500
He is often known for literary criticism of other authors' works. However with famous writings such as Four Quartets and The Waste Land, and a Nobel Prize for Literature, this ex-patriot is also noted as a significant writer of the 20th century.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
500
A massive swarm of these recently caused concern from satellite readings across Missouri as they travelled across the state to warmer climate.
What are Monarch butterflies?
500
This 1990s romantic drama starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader explores the unlikely relationship between a young middle class widower (Spader) who falls in love with a middle-aged working-class waitress (Sarandon) in St. Louis, Missouri.
What is White Palace?