History
Kansas became a U.S. state in what year?
What is 1861?
These four states share a border with Kansas.
What is Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma?
This serial killer, known by the initials BTK, committed crimes in Wichita, Kansas, and was arrested by 2005.
Who is Dennis Rader?
This famous 1939 movie’s story begins in Kansas.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Kansas is the ___ state to join the Union.
What is 34th?
This Kansas county is the largest by land area.
What is Butler County?
This famed female aviator disappeared during an attempt to fly around the world.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Kansas has more of these than people.
What are cows?
This 1803 land deal brought Kansas territory under U.S. control.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This river flows through Wichita and southern Kansas.
What is the Arkansas River?
This Kansas-born general served as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Kansas city is home to the world’s largest hand-dug well.
What is Greensburg?
This Native American tribe gave Kansas its name.
What is the Kansa (Kaw) Tribe?
This Kansas town marks the geographic center of the continental United States.
What is Lebanon, Kansas?
This Kansas native founded the Pizza Hut restaurant chain in 1958.
What is Dan Carney? (Frank Carney)
In Kansas, it is illegal to shoot rabbits from this location, even if on your own property.
What is a car?
This city served as Kansas's capital before Topeka.
What is Lecompton?
This region covers most of western Kansas and is part of the Great Plains.
What is the High Plains?
This jazz saxophonist, born in Kansas City, Kansas, was nicknamed “Bird” and helped invent bebop.
Who is Charlie Parker?
This Kansas town is home to the world’s largest ball of twine, which has been continually added to by the community since it was started in 1953.
What is Cawker City?