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This Clarksburg native became the first chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics in 1957.
What is Charles Frederick Mosteller
100
This county was named for the man who served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835.
What is Marshall County
100
A bridge in Raleigh County was named for this man who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity” at La Lande, France, during World War II.
Who is Stanley Bender
100
The French and Indian War was ended by this 1763 treaty.
What is Treaty of Paris.
100
The Grave Creek Mound at Moundsville is a product of this prehistoric culture.
Who is The Adena Culture.
200
In 1871, West Virginia voters approved this amendment to the state constitution that removed voting restrictions on former Confederate males.
What is The Flick Amendment
200
This member of West Virginia’s congressional delegation in Washington, DC, was elected in 1982 to the seat formerly held by his/her father.
What is Alan B. Mollohan
200
This resort was renamed Ashford General Hospital during World War II.
What is The Greenbrier resort
200
This woman became WVU’s first woman mountaineer mascot in 1990.
Who is Natalie Tennant
200
These two men were shot and killed on the McDowell County courthouse steps by Baldwin-Felts detectives on August 1, 1921.
Who is Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers
300
Wayne County was formed from this county in 1842.
What is Cabell County
300
Under a change in the law in 2000, the person who holds this state government position also bears the title of lieutenant governor of West Virginia.
What is The President of the Senate
300
The community of Petroleum is located in this county.
What is Ritchie County.
300
According to census statistics, the population of this county grew at a faster rate than any other county between 1990 and 2000.
What is Berkeley County
300
This man replaced Frank Cignetti as head football coach at West Virginia University in 1980.
Who is Don Nehlen
400
This national forest, which was created in 1936 in part from Natural Bridge National Forest, and which lies mostly in Virginia, includes a portion of Monroe County in West Virginia.
What is Jefferson National Forest
400
The first West Virginia chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality was established in this city in 1958.
What is Charleston
400
This Williamstown glass manufacturer celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005.
What is Fenton Art Glass
400
This women’s college basketball team won the 2006 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) championship.
What is The University of Charleston
400
This trunk line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that ran from Grafton to Parkersburg was completed in 1857.
What is The Northwestern Virginia Railroad
500
In 1919, the West Virginia Legislature passed an act that led to opening of the West Virginia Colored Deaf and Blind School in 1926 in this county.
What is Kanawha County.
500
In 1922, this widow of a Preston County congressman ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Izetta Jewell Brown
500
In the presidential election of 1860, this Constitutional Union candidate won the popular vote in Virginia.
Who is John Bell
500
In the early 1900s, West Virginia's timber industry was at its peak of production. At the 1905 meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association, Mason G. Ambler presented a paper on the state's forests, streams, and fuels. Read the following excerpt from his paper: "Even the casual traveler through our State cannot now misread the ‘signs of the times.' They are everywhere blazed on the face of nature. On every scarred and deforested mountainside, in flood swept valleys and polluted streams; in the weird and wasteful illumination throughout our great natural gas belt. . . . The spread of railroads has carried destruction to the very heart of our great forests, and the song of the saw-mill and the ring of the ax are heard in every interior valley, in a commercial requiem over the monarchs of the century." Based on this excerpt, which of the following actions would Ambler most likely have supported:
What is tax breaks for companies moving to West Virginia to log timber
500
This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1978.
Who is Louise McNeill