State Symbols and Traditions
What is the state dance?
What is square dancing?
When was Scales Mound founded?
When was 1853?
Who lived in New Salem IL, and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
When did Illinois become a state?
When was 1818?
Does the Illinois government have three branches?
Yes
What is the Illinois state grain?
What is corn?
What is the highest elevation point in Scales Mound called?
What is Charles Mound?
Who was born in Chicago in 1964, and was the first African American first lady?
Who is Michelle Obama?
When was the current constitution adopted?
When was 1970?
What President took an armchair that he loved from Galena to the White House?
Who was President Ulysses S. Grant?
What is the state fish?
What is the bluegill?
What was the building in our small town that was an Allan Opera House, but was condemned as a fire hazard, and now is an event place for our town?
What is the town hall?
Who is our governor now?
Who is JB Pritsker?
When was a private bank, known as the scales mound banking company started
When 1910?
Where is the largest prehistoric site in Illinois?
Where in Cahikia Mounds?
What is the state nickname?
What is the prairie state?
In 1956 what old bridge was torn down?
What was the old railroad bridge?
Who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1965-1980, and was the first African American Mayor of Chicago?
Who was Harold Washington?
When was the last great Indian uprising in Illinois that was called the Black Hawk War?
When was 1832?
What is the state motto?
What is ¨State Sovereignty, National Union?¨
What is the state amphibian?
What is the Eastern Tiger Salamander?
Scales Mound took its name from a man who owned a what in the area on which there was a hill or mound? Scales Mound was then founded.
What is a farm?
Who was the first governor of Illinois?
Who was Shadrach Bond?
When was Peoria, the oldest community in Illinois, founded?
When was 1813?
In 1818, Illinois became what number state of the U.S.
Hint:_st
What is the 21st state of the U.S.?