CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
January 30 – February 6
KANSAS DAY QUIZ BEE 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
1:00-2:00 PM
School Gym
Quiz Master : Rev. Bernard X. Gorges
TWISTER
BISON
COYOTES
COWBOYS
KRISTIN UMBARGER
LANE HARVEY
VITTORIO KWEK
LANDON WOODYARD
CAMDEN HUGO
HUNTYR SCHWEGMAN
MELANIE HALLACY
JARREN GANT
FLORENCE BARLES
MIA GODINEZ
HAYDEN MATLOCK
PAUL FALKENSTIEN
BRENDON GAHAGAN
BRYAN AYALA
TY GALEMORE
EMILY LARKIN
XAVIER BAUER
CARSON BROWNFIELD
ALYSSA ANDOYO
GABRIEL GAHAGAN
BRAVES
AVIATORS
COMANCHES
PIONEERS
PAUL BOLLIG
MICHAEL AYLWARD
JAY BROWN
XOCHITL VARGAS
LOGAN FICKEL
LUPITA AYALA
ANGELO ANDOYO
LORENZO BARLES
RHENIAH TOLEDO
NATALIE BROWNFIELD
TAYLOR THOMPSON
ROSEBELLE TOLEDO
CAMERON AKINS
DAVID ORTIZ
HUNTER BAUER
MIKAYLA KWEK
JAYLN TOBIN
CADEN SCHWEGMAN
NATHAN MATLOCK
COREY AKINS
PAWNEES
HANNAH HUGO
JAQUELIN MENDEZ
DANE HARTWIG
TEVYN JAMES
JAKOB AGUILAR
All participants are directed to visit these websites to review:
http://www.skyways.org/KSL/Ref/misc/web/kansasday.html
http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-day/14770
All participants will need to review the following items:
What is the name of the State we live in?
What is a “Nickname” for the State of Kansas?
Kansas
Wheat State, Sunflower
State, Jayhawker State,
Midway USA
In what city is the capital of the State of Kansas?
Who is our current Governor?
How do you spell the official abbreviation of the Kansas?
What is the two letter postal Code for Kansas?
Approximately, How many square miles of area does Kansas cover?
What is the date the State of Kansas entered the United States of
America?
When Kansas became a State, what number was it?
Name the States that border Kansas.
Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kans.
KS
82,000 sq.mi.
January 29, 1861
On the Kansas flag, what is the meaning of the wreath that surrounds
the official seal?
Symbolizes the Louisiana
Purchase
On the Kansas flag, what flower is above the seal?
On the Kansas flag, how many stars are clustered at the top of the seal?
On the Kansas flag, how many stars are on the seal?
On the Kansas flag, what to the star represent?
On the Kansas flag, what is the State motto in Latin?
What is the State motto in English?
Sunflower
34
34
34th State in the Union
Ad Astra per Aspera
To the Stars through
Difficulties
In what year was the Kansas flag officially adopted?
How many United States Representatives does Kansas send to
Washington, D.C.?
1927
4
How many United States Senators does Kansas send to Washington, D.
C.?
2
Name two of the four United States Reps from Kansas.
1st-Jerry Moran, 2nd-Lynn
Jenkins, 3rd-Dennis
Moore, 4th-Todd Tihart
Name both United States Senators from Kansas.
Pat Roberts, Sam
Brownback
What is the State flower?
What is the State bird?
What is the State song?
What is the State tree?
What is the State mammal?
What is the State reptile?
Sunflower
Western Meadow Lark
Home on the Range
Cottonwood
Buffalo
Ornate Box Turtle
34
Nebreska, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Colorado
What is the State amphibian?
What is the State insect?
List five (5) of the State’s largest cities.
Who is the famous Kansan that started a great automobile company?
In what city was Walter Chrysler born?
Who is the famous Kansan that was Vice-President?
In what city was Charles Curtis born?
Who is the famous Kansan that was the first women to fly solo over the
Atlantic Ocean?
Barred Tiger Salamander
Honey Bee
Wichita, Overland Park,
Kansas City, Topeka,
Olathe, Lawrence,
Shawnee, Manhattan,
Salina, Lenexa.
Walter Chrysler
Charles Curtis
Amelia Earhart
In what city was Amelia Earhart born?
Who is the famous Kansan that was both a General and a President of
the United States?
Atchinson, KS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In what city was General Dwight Eisenhower born?
Who is the famous Kansan that was a nationally known comedian?
In what city was Buster Keaton born?
Who is the famous Kansan that was a nationally known clown?
In what city was Emmett Kelly born?
What is the number one cash crop in the State of Kansas?
Who is the author of “Little House on the Prairie”?
Near what current day city did Laura Ingalls Wilder live?
In what city is the University of Kansas?
In what city is Kansas State University?
In what city is Pittsburg State University?
In what city is Fort Hays State University?
In what city is Wichita State University?
What is the largest city in the State of Kansas?
In what city is the “World’s Largest Ball of Twine”?
In what city is the “World’s Largest Hand-dug Well”?
In what year did the “Big Well” open as a tourist attraction?
In what city is the “Kansas Barbed Wire Museum” located?
In what city was the element “Helium” discovered?
In what city is the “Independent Telephone Company Museum”
located?
In what city is the “Coleman Lantern Museum” located?
In what city is the “Kansas Historical Museum” located?
In what city is the “Kansas State Fair” located?
In what city is the “Kansas Cosmosphere” located?
To what interest is the “Kansas Cosmosphere” dedicated?
Abilene
Buster Keaton
Piqua
Emmett Kelly
Sedan
Wheat
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Independence
Lawrence
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Hays
Wichita
Wichita
Cawker City
Greensburg
1941
LaCrosse
Dexter
Abilene
In what city is the “Eisenhower Museum” located?
In what city is “Leo the Lion” from MGM?
Wichita
Topeka
Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Space Exploration
Artifacts
Abilene
McPherson
In what city is the world’s first “Bulldozer”?
In what city was the location for the TV series “Gunsmoke”?
Near what city is one of the world’s largest electric shovel for mining
coal?
In what city did the “Dalton Gang” meet its end?
Who was the Spanish explorer who first set foot in the area which is
now Kansas?
Morrowsville
Dodge City
West Mineral
Who was the famous Spanish Priest who traveled with Coronado?
Near what city did Fr. Juan Padilla die?
What was Kansas’ “nickname” in the years leading up to the Civil
War?
What was the name of the group who sacked and burned the town of
Lawrence in 1863?
Juan Padilla
Lyons
Bleeding Kansas
Which religious group settled in Kansas during the 1870’s to escape
religious persecution in Russia?
Mennonites
What is the name of the crop the Mennonites brought with them from
Russia?
Hard Red winter Wheat
What is the “Nickname” of the city of Wichita?
What famous movie had a main character whose house was taken away
in a tornado and set down in a fantasy land?
Air Capital
Wizard of Oz
Name one of the two nationally famous fast-food restaurants that began
in Wichita.
Pizza Hut, White Castle
Hamburgers
What city hosts the National Baseball Congress’ World Series?
Wichita
At one time, in Kansas, it was against the law to serve ice cream on
what kind of fruit pie?
Cherry Pie
What county, in Kansas, is the geographical center of the 48 contiguous
states?
Smith County
Barton County is peculiar. It is the only County in Kansas that is named
after who?
Name after a woman
Kansas has the largest population of what wild bird in North America?
In Manhattan, Kansas, there is a 30 foot tall statue of whom?
Why is Jonny Kaw important for Kansans?
Which trail passed through six states including Kansas?
Which County is known as the “Wheat Capital of the Wheat State”?
Prairie Chicken
Jonny Kaw
Agriculture
Oregon Trail
Summner
Geography
Kansas has many geographical regions: the Ozark Plateau, the
Flint Hills, the Cherokee Lowlands, the Glaciated Region, the
Smoky Hills, the Chatauqua Hills, the High Plains, the WellingtonMcPherson Lowlands, the Arkansas Lowlands, the Osage Cuestas,
the Red Hills, and the Interior Highlands.
The following questions will test your knowledge on the geographical
regions of the State of Kansas.
Coffeyville
Coronado
Quantrill's Raiders
What area of Kansas is noted for coal mining and is the home of “Big
Brutus”, which is a huge electric shovel standing over 160 feet tall?
Cherokee Lowlands
What is the region in the extreme southeast corner of Kansas that was
once the center of zinc mining in the United States?
Ozark Plateau
What rich grassland region in Kansas fattened cattle at the end of the
“long drive” on the Chisholm Trail?
Flint Hills
Once a prehistoric inland sea, this area contains many famous fossil
High Plains
finds. The most famous is a fish within a fish that can be seen at the
Steinberg Museum in Hays, Kansas. Which area contains these fossil
treasures?
What region, located in the northeast corner of Kansas, is noted for lush Glaciated Region
hills and valleys as a result of the last Ice Age from which it gets its
name?
What area in Kansas is known as Post Rock country after German
Smokey Hills
settlers faced a lack of trees? They had to make fence post cut from
soft limestone layers that had hardened when exposed to sun light.
Usually associated with Oklahoma, this region extends into Kansas and
derives its name from the abundance of iron in the soil, which gives the
soil its distinctive color. Name the region.
Red Hills
What Kansas region was named after the Spanish word for cliff and the
Native American tribe living there during European contact?
Osage Cuestas
What Kansas region was once an international boundary between the
United States and Spanish Mexico?
Arkansas Lowlands
Only ten miles wide, this region runs from the southern border of
Kansas as far north as Leavenworth County. Name the region.
Chataqua Hills