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Birthplace of author Mark Twain
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What is Florida?
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Birthplace of President Harry S. Truman
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What is Lamar?
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Birthplace of basketball player and N.J. senator
Bill Bradley
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What is Crystal City?
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Birthplace of poet Langston Hughes
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What is Joplin?
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Birthplace of merchant J.C. Penney
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What is Hamilton?
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Missouri state capitol
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What is Jefferson City?
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Starting place of the Pony Express
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What is St. Joseph?
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"The Gateway to the West"
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What is St. Louis?
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Missouri's oldest community was founded as early
as 1735
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What is Saint Genevieve?
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Holds the state record for the low temperature of
-40 degrees on February 13, 1905
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What is Warsaw?
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Missouri state bird
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What is the bluebird?
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Missouri state tree
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What is the flowering dogwood?
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Missouri state animal
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What is the Missouri mule?
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Missouri state flower
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What is the hawthorn?
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Missouri state fossil
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What is the crinoid?
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Has more miles of boulevards than Paris and more
fountains than any city except Rome
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What is Kansas City?
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Became the state song under an act adopted by the
General Assembly on June 30, 1949
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What is the Missouri Waltz?
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Made from a moving airplane was made by Captain
Berry at St. Louis, in 1912
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What is the first successful parachute?
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Holds the state record for the high temperature
recorded, 118 degrees on July 14, 1954
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What is Warsaw?
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Occurred in 1811, centered in New Madrid,
Missouri
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What is the most powerful earthquake to strike
the United States?
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630-foot stainless steel structure completed on
October 28, 1965
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What is the Gateway Arch?
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Aug. 10, 1821
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What is the date Missouri became a state (entered
union)?
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Oldest University west of the Mississippi
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What is Saint Louis University?
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Invented by Richard Blechyden at the St. Louis
World's Fair in 1904
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What is iced tea?
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Founded by Auguste Chouteau in 1764
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What is Saint Louis?
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Missouri State Governor
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Who is Matt Blunt?
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Number of electoral votes in presidential
elections
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What is 11?
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In 1865, Missouri became the state to do this
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What is become the first slave state to free its
slaves?
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The welfare of the people shall be the supreme
law
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What is the state motto?
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Completed in 1917 and occupied the following year
it is the third in Jefferson City and the sixth
in Missouri history
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What is the Capitol building?
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Make your wager
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Missouri is bordered by this number of states
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What is 8?