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100

Which city has a larger population, Wichita or Topeka?

Wichita

100

It is the state flower.

What is the sunflower.

100
Kansas was named after them.
Who are Kanza people?
100
This is where the capital of Kansas is located.
What is Topeka?
100

The _______ is the Kansas state mammal

Bison

200

Which four states border Kansas?

MO, OK, CO, NE

200

This is the state tree.

What is the cottonwood tree?

200
This is the state song written by Brewster Higley ad Daniel Kelley.
What is "Home on the Range"?
200

He is the governor of Kansas.

Who is Laura Kelly?

200

What Kansas town is nicknamed “The Little Apple”?

Manhattan

300

What is the highest point in Kansas--Mount Oread or Mount Sunflower?

Mount Sunflower

300
This is the state insect.
What is the honeybee?
300
He was a Kansan and the 34th president of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300

Was Kansas the 33rd, 34th, 35th, or 36th state to enter the Union?

What is the 34th state to enter the union?

300

Which famous and influential African-American poet and author spent much of his boyhood growing up in Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas?

Langston Hughes

400

Which city is the oldest in Kansas? Lawrence, Leavenworth, Lecompton, or Kansas City?

Lecompton

400
It is the state bird.
What is the western meadowlark?
400

He was the first European to travel to the land that became Kansas.

Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?

400
The state motto, "Ad Astra per Aspera" (To the stars through difficulty," means this.
What is doing something that you believe in even though it is difficult. (Speaks to the struggles Kansas went through to become a state.)
400

What town is the Kansas state fair held in each year?

Hutchison

500

What river makes up the Northeast border of Kansas?

Missouri River

500
This is the state reptile.
What is the ornate box turtle?
500

They had three main goals when they explored land that included Kansas: 1. find a water route to the Pacific Ocean, 2. learn about Native Americans, and 3. record information on everything they learned about the new land.

Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

500

These are 3 things that can be found on the Kansas seal and what they mean.

What are: Buffalo: state animal Native Americans on horseback: first people to live here Wagons & Oxen: settlers & pioneers who settled in Kansas Log House: settlement & desire to make new homes in KS Riverboat: early transportation Horses, Plow, & Farmer: agriculture 34 Stars: 34th state to enter the Union Ad Astra per Aspera: state motto January 29, 1861: When KS became a state

500

This NFL Hall of Fame running back grew up and played high school football in Wichita.

Barry Sanders