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Famous Missourians
Entertainment and Sports
History
Miscellaneous
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100
He was the only president form the state of Missouri from the town of Independence.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
100

The cardinal and the slugger are the mascots for these two professional baseball teams.

Who are the St Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals

100

The first European settlers in Missouri were from this country (in the 1750's ) They set up trading centers in places such as St. Louis and St. Genevieve.

Who were the French?

100

These eight states border Missouri.

What are Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa?

100
This is the state animal.
What is the mule?
200
She wrote books about her life on the prairie and lived in the town of Mansfield Missouri.
Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
200

This famous musical was set in St Louis and is about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

What is Meet Me in St. Louis?

200
In this year Missouri officially became a state.
What is 1821?
200
This is the Missouri State nickname.
What is the show me state?
200
This is the state tree.
What is the Dogwood?
300

He was a famous outlaw and robber (known for robbing trains and banks) from Kearney Missouri and was murdered by his friend.

Who was Jesse James?

300
This baseball team (located in Kansas City) was a member of the National Negro League and one that Jackie Robinson once played for.
What was the Kansas City Monarchs?
300

Missouri was originally acquired for the United States in this famous purchase of 1803.

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

300
To pioneers St. Louis was known as this (This is what the arch symbolizes).
What is the gateway to the west?
300
This is the state insect.
What is the honeybee?
400
This former major league baseball player played for the Saint Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons from 1941 to 1963 and was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1969.
Who was Stan Musial or Stan the Man?
400
In 1904, the first Olympic games held in the United States was located in this city.
Where is St. Louis?
400

This allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

400
This town was the starting point of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Where is St. Louis or St. Charles?
400
This is the state song.
What is the Missouri Waltz?
500
This famous inventor was born near Diamond Missouri and was known for developing crop rotation methods to conserve nutrients in over planted soil. He was also known for discovering hundreds of uses for crops such as the peanut.
Who was George Washington Carver?
500

This famous novel (which is a sequel) set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg Missouri (inspired by the real town Hannibal) tells the story of a young boy and his encounters on the Mississippi River and his quest to find his real identity.

What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

500

The name Missouri (meaning the town of the large canoe) comes from this Native American Tribe.

Who are the Sioux?

500

The first capital of the state was located in this town.

Where is St. Charles?

500
This is the state dance.
What is the square dance?