This Iowa man is the nation’s longest serving governor (20 years and counting).
Who is Terry Branstad?
100
This Iowan was born in Cedar Rapids in 1978, and later played the character Kelso on "That 70s Show"
Who is Ashton Kutcher?
100
This is the nation's oldest continuously published student newspaper
What is The Simpsonian?
100
Iowa is #1 in the nation for the production of this crop.
What is corn?
100
This 1989 baseball film starring Kevin Costner was primarily filmed in Dubuque County.
What is Field of Dreams?
200
This person was the 31st President of the United States and was born in West Branch, Iowa.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
This actor was born in Winterset, Iowa in 1907 and acted in 142 pictures during his career--83 of these movies were Westerns.
Who is John Wayne?
200
This was Simpson College’s mascot until changed to the Storm in 1992.
What is the Redmen?
200
Iowa has 6 of this animal for every one person in the state.
What is the hog?
200
Because of Iowa's location in Tornado Alley, this movie's final scene was filmed in Eldora, Iowa
What is Twister?
300
This unique Iowa political event is now one of the first to happen in the nation and draws in political figures to all 99 counties.
What is the caucus?
300
This gymnast is an Olympic gold-medalist and a Dancing with the Stars contestant that hails from Des Moines.
Who is Shawn Johnson?
300
This man spoke at Abraham Lincoln's funeral, and he is the namesake for one of the largest lectures that Simpson hosts annually.
Who is Matthew Simpson?
300
This tractor manufacturing company makes most of their tractors in Waterloo, Iowa.
What is John Deere?
300
This movie was filmed in Madison County Iowa, as well as in Adel, and bears the name of one of these locations.
What is The Bridges of Madison County?
400
James W. Grimes had this role in Iowa's government from 1854-1858, and the city of Grimes, IA is named after him.
What is the Governor?
400
The University of Northern Iowa graduate and Iowa native was the quarterback for the St. Louis Rams in their first Super Bowl victory in 2000.
Who is Kurt Warner?
400
This iconic campus building was saved from demolition in 1985 when $600,000 was raised in one year to renovate it.
What is College Hall?
400
More than 97% of Iowa farms are owned by who?
What are families?
400
This horror movie about young people living in a popular Iowa crop was filmed in our state despite the story being set in Nebraska.
What is Children of the Corn?
500
The wife of this president was born in Boone, where her family's restored frame house still stands.
Who is President Eisenhower?
500
Peggy Whitson, an astronaut from Mount Ayr, Iowa, was the first female commander of this spacecraft in 2007.
What is the International Space Station?
500
Simpson College made this change to its academic calendar in 1983, partly so Science majors could have the opportunity to do learning in the field.
What is changing from a January term to a May Term
500
Iowa leads the nation in the production of this, which 47% of Iowa corn is used to make.
What is ethanol?
500
This horror movie is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town, who are suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.