Deck 2 4-6

Question 1

What is the name of the battle in 1861 were union troops under general Jacob D. Cox were defeated near St. Albans?

Answer 1

Scary creek

Question 2

What was the name of the slave who helped defend fort Donnelly from a Native American attack in 1778?

Answer 2

(Dick) pointer

Question 3

In which community is the West Virginia strawberry festival held annually?

Answer 3

Buckhannon

Question 4

What is the longest cave in West Virginia?

Answer 4

 Friars Hole (cave)

Question 5

What was the subject of Henry Ruffners 1847 “Address to the people of West Virginia”

Answer 5

Slavery (slaves)

Question 6

Which Mercer County town was once the home of 19 millionaires?

Answer 6

Bramwell

Question 7

In 2004, which Charleston native became the first woman to be elected as West Virginia Secretary of State?

Answer 7

(Betty) Ireland

Question 8

Which West Virginia community was founded in 1918 because of the construction of an explosive plant?

Answer 8

Nitro

Question 9

Which county was created in 1867 and was name for the 16th president of the United States?

Answer 9

Lincoln (County)

Question 10

In which Marshall County town was a Fokker aircraft factory briefly operated?

Answer 10

Glen Dale

Question 11

In which county is the chief cornstalk wildlife management area located?

Answer 11

Mason (County)

Question 12

In which community is Concord University located?

Answer 12

Athens

Question 13

Which West Virginia industry was the joyloading machine instrumental in changing?

Answer 13

Coal (Industry)

Question 14

Which Webster County native served is the model for Bush Brown’s statue of the West Virginia Mountaineer on the capital complex in Charleston?

Answer 14

(Eli) Hamrick

Question 15

Which radio station went on the air in Pomeroy Ohio in 1923 in later move to Huntington we’re begin regular broadcast in 1927?

Answer 15

WSAZ

Question 16

Which Nobel prize winning mathematician was born in Bluefield and was portrayed in a major motion picture?

Answer 16

(John) Nash

Question 17

Which West Virginia community was the West Virginia marble festival held before 2016?

Answer 17

Cairo

Question 18

What is the shape of Alberts Chapel in Calhoun County?

Answer 18

Octagon

Question 19

Which profession was former Bluefield resident Alex B. Mahood prominent?

Answer 19

Architecture

Question 20

The diet of early settlers was described as “hog and hominy.” What is the key component of hominy?

Answer 20

Corn

Question 21

What is 1669 expedition that was used by the French to base the claim on the Ohio Valley?

Answer 21

La Salle

Question 22

How high is the dome on the West Virginia State capital building?

Answer 22

292 feet

Question 23

What is the name of the animal with Latin name Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus that the U. S. Department of the interior removed from the endangered species list in 2010?

Answer 23

West Virginia northern flying squirrel

Question 24

In which present – day West Virginia County was the center of population in the United States located in 1820?

Answer 24

Hardy (county)

Question 25

Which state forest name was derive from the name of a space Brady, Herman guy come down, and Herbert Bowers?

Answer 25

Kumbrabow (state first)

Question 26

What is The name of the wheeling theater that was used is a military prison during the Civil War and was called “Lincoln’s Bastille”?

Answer 26

Athenaeum

Question 27

The documentary poem “ The book of the dead” by Muriel Rukeyser trees which West Virginia disaster?

Answer 27

Hawks nest (tunnel disaster)

Question 28

On what date was the 35th star added to the U. S. Flag to reflect the admission of the West Virginia as the 35th state of the Union?

Answer 28

July 4, 1863

Question 29

Which famous bluegrass musician from West Virginia recorded for songs for the soundtrack to the documentary about coal mining called “ Harlan county, USA?

Answer 29

(Hazel) Dickens

Question 30

Which Shepherdstown resident was born in Denmark in 1854 and was the author of “Prisoners of the American Revolution” and “Rose Brake”?

Answer 30

(Danske) Dandridge

Question 31

During the new deal, homestead communities were established at Arthur Dale in Preston county, Eleanor and Putnam County and then the Tiger Valley. In which county can Tygart Valley homesteads be found?

Answer 31

Randolph (County)

Question 32

What is the name of the Jefferson county man who was charged with being a Confederate spy and executed after care of battle plan to release prisoners from Johnson’s island in lake Erie in 1864?

Answer 32

(John Yates) Beall

Question 33

What was the name of the Upshur county mine disaster that killed 12 miners after lightning triggered an explosion in 2006?

Answer 33

Sago

Question 34

What did the Barnett children and others refused to do that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court case -West Virginia state Board of Education vs. Barnett-?

Answer 34

Say the Pledge of Allegiance

Question 35

Which state park is name for the Wyandotte word “ Point between two waters”?

Answer 35

Tu-Endie-Wei (State park)

Question 36

What is the name of the Moundsville native who wrote the novel -fools Parade-, which was later made into motion picture starring Jimmy Stewart?

Answer 36

(Davis) Grubb 

Question 37

Which Charlston–born author wrote -Addie: a memoir- and served in the British women’s auxiliary Air Force during World War II?

Answer 37

(Mary Lee) Settle

Question 38

Which Spencer native was one of the most decorated female veterans and U.S. history and was buried in Arlington cemetery in 2002?

Answer 38

(Ruby) Bradley

Question 39

In which Monongalia County community did voters elect a socialist government on January 5, 1911?

Answer 39

Star city

Question 40

What was the name of the nitro native who pitch for the Milwaukee Braves and won three games against the New York Yankees in the 1957 World Series?

Answer 40

(Lew) Burdette