Interesting Facts in Kansas History (1919-1973)
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| Who was the "Kansas Flyer"? | Glenn Cunningham
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| Whose nickname was "Big Train"? | Walter Johnson
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| Students from which college began Pizza Hut? | Wichita State University
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| Which President created the Interstate Highway System? | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Kansas was the first state in the Union to outlaw which group? | Ku Klux Klan
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| What destructive natural disaster hit Kansas in 1951? | flooding on the Kansas River
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| Which city is known as the "Air Capital" of the world? | Wichita
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| Who was known as the "First Woman of Aviation"? | Olive Beech
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| Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic? | Amelia Earhart
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| Why was Georgia Neese Clark Gray famous? | She was the first female Treasurer of the United States
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| What caused the United States to get into World War II? | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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| Who started a grocery store chain in Kansas? | Dillon Brothers
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| What day did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? | December 7, 1941
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| Who was the first woman elected to the Kansas Legislature? | Minnie Johnson Grinsted
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| Who was the first American Indian to hold a national political office? | Charles Curtis
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| Which Kansas became one of the most influential photographers in the world? | Gordon Parks
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| What was hung in homes to show that those families had sons or daughters fighting overseas? | victory banners
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| What "crashed" in October of 1929? | Stock Market
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| In what year did World War II end? | 1945
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| Who ran for governor of Kansas to get rid of the Ku Klux Klan? | William Allen White
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| What was another name for the draft? | conscription
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| Walter Johnson was one of the first five players chosen for the ___?___ and helped the Washington Senators win two World Series. | Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Kansas City became known for what type of music? | Jazz
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| What kind of music became popular during the 1950's | Rock and Roll
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| Which team was one of the most successful in the Negro League? | Kansas City Monarchs
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| President Eisenhower was from which Kansas town? | Abilene
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| What did Kansas repeal fifteen years after the United Sates repealed it? | Prohibition
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| What was the name of Pizza Hut's mascot? | Pizza Hut Pete
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| Kansas students were taught what "strategy" in school because of the threat of a nuclear bomb attack? | Duck and Cover
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| Who were the first men on the moon? | Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldren
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| What was the name of the group of women who marched from camp to camp in 1921 protesting the mining companies hiring of "scabs"? | Amazon Army
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| Which Kansan lost to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election? | Alf Landon
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| Which Kansan was a well-known poet who wrote 67 books? | William Stafford
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| Because of a shortage of goods and food rationing during World War II, many women's magazines printed recipes on how to bake without... | sugar
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| What did the KKK do to scare African-Americans and other people? | burned crosses
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| What famous "character" during World War II showed that women could do men's jobs? | Rosie the Riveter
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| Which Kansas High School is in a former missile base and silo that was purchased from the government for $1.00. | Jackson Heights
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| What Kansas couple published nine books and lectured around the United States about travels and photographs from around the world? | Martin and Osa Johnson
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| Charlie Parker was the Kansas City native who helped invent a new type of jazz improvisation called... | bebop
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| What were the two nicknames given to the Great Plains during the tough times of the 1930's? | Dirty Thirties & Dust Bowl
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| Which war did the United States fight in during the 1960's? | Vietnam War
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| What was the name of the Russian satellite that was the first one to be successfully launched into space? | Sputnik
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| During the space race, schools began emphasizing which two subjects? | math and
science
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| The tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union became known as the... | Cold War
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| Who was the artist and language teacher who taught different languages? | Birger Sandzen
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| At which store in Kansas did African-Americans begin "sit-ins"? | Dockum's Drugstoor
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| What was the time period called when sports started to become really popular? | Age of Play
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| What restaurant began with 600 borrowed dollars and a used oven? | Pizza Hut
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| Who became a major part of American economy for the first time in the 1950's? | teenagers
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| Glenn Cunningham grew up in ___?___ and was so badly burned as a child that the doctor didn't think he would walk ever again. | Elkhart
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| Who were the three aviation pioneers who helped make Wichita the "Air Capital" of the World? | Walter Beech
Clyde Cessna
Lloyd Stearman
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