History &
State Facts
State Facts
The major river that flows by downtown Louisville.
What is the Ohio River?
The year of the first Kentucky Derby.
What is 1875?
The official drink of The Kentucky Derby.
What is a Mint Julep?
The professional boxer and activist who grew up in Louisville, Kentucky?
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The year the Kentucky Innocence Project was established by the Department of Public Advocacy.
What is 2001?
Kentucky's state nickname.
What is the "Bluegrass State"?
The event that starts two Saturdays before the Derby.
What is "Thunder Over Louisville"?
The open-faced sandwich created by Chef Fred Schmidt at the historic Brown Hotel in Louisville.
What is the "Kentucky Hot Brown"?
The Kentucky city known as the "Horse Capital of the World"?
What is Ocala, Kentucky?
The minimum sentence requirement for a case to be eligible for assistance from KIP?
What is a ten-year sentence?
Kentucky's state flower.
What is the Goldenrod?
The name of Kentucky Wildcats fans.
What is the "Big Blue Nation"?
The official dish of Kentucky.
What is Burgoo?
Hodgenville, Kentucky is the birthplace of which U.S. president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the first individual to be exonerated based on DNA testing in Kentucky.
Who is William Gregory?
The year that Kentucky was admitted to the union as the 15th state.
What is 1792?
Commonly considered to be the one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
What is Secretariat?
The family that created the first Derby Pie in 1950.
What is the Kern family?
What Frankfort, Kentucky was originally known as?
What is "Frank's Ford"?
The proposal which would provide compensation for those who are wrongfully convicted in the state of Kentucky. These individuals could receive $65,000 for every year of imprisonment.
What is House Bill 178?
The name of the first English explorer who began visiting what is now the Frankfort area in the early 1750s.
Who is Stephen Frank?
The number of times a horse can race in the Kentucky Derby?
What is only once in the horse's lifetime?
The average number of strawberries that the Kentucky Derby concession stands sells each year.
What is 300,000 strawberries?
The stretch of highway in Eastern Kentucky named after country-music stars.
What is "Country Music Highway"?
The number of individuals that KIP has been able to free from prison since 2015.
What is 12 men and women.