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3. He struck oil at Burning Springs Samuel D. Karnes

4. The 1924 Democratic candidate for President from WV John Davis

5. WV Governor responsible for desegregating schools William Marland

6. WVU football, NFL Hall of fame, played for Giants and Redskins Sam Huff

7. Reporter from Harpers Magazine, described the destruction at Harper’s Ferry Porte Crayon David Hunter Strother

8. Two opera singers Phyllis Curtain Eleanor Steber

9. Religious leader and founder of Bethany College Alexander Campbell

10. French explorer that placed lead plates in the banks of the Ohio River Celoron de Bienville

11. Mingo Indian Chief, his family was murdered Chief Logan

12. First English explorer into the interior of WV Christopher Newport

13. Confederate General that destroyed Harper’s Ferry Stonewall Jackson

14. Senator from the restored government, sponsored an amendment that made statehood possible Waitman T. Willey

15. Exhibited his steam boat at Shepherdstown on the Potomac River James Rumsey

16. Sheriff of Matewan at the Matewan Massacre Sid Hatfield

17. WV is shaped from what large mountain system? Appalachians

18. The largest tributary of the Ohio Kanawha

19. Spectacular overhanging rocks where the South Branch cuts through Hardy and Hampshire Counties The Trough

20. Where one sided spruce trees are found Dolly Sods

21. Largest County Randolph

22. Where the Kanawha River meets the Ohio River Point Pleasant

23. The Attorney General’s office is part of what branch of government? Executive

24. Who would replace the Governor if he died? Senate President

25. Who founded Mother’s Day? Where? Anna Jarvis - Grafton

26. The Morrill Land Act of 1862 provided for what? WVU

27. First developed the concept of vocational education Booker T. Washington

28. Name of the loyal government of Virginia during the Civil War Restored Govt. of Va.

29. Location of the Mountain State Forest Festival Elkins

30. State Capital Charleston

31. Location of the Festival of Lights Wheeling

32. Location of The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs

33. Location of the Blue Ridge Outlet Mall Martinsburg

34. The geographic center of the state Braxton County

35. Location of the FBI Fingerprinting Center Clarksburg

36. Location of Blennerhassett Island Parkersburg

37. Three ways pioneers obtained their land Corn Rights Settlement Rights Tomahawk Rights

38. What river could you travel south downstream? Greenbrier

39. First to fly faster than the speed of sound Chuck Yeager

40. Who chooses the State Superintendent of Schools? WV Board of Ed.

41. First battle of the American Revolution Battle of Pt. Pleasant

42. 1972 collapse of dam in which over 100 people drowned Buffalo Creek

43. First National Strike Martinsburg (RR)

44. Prohibited workers from striking injuction

45. “Nail” City Wheeling

46. Kind of coal in WV Bituminous

47. Killed Alexander Hamilton, conspired with Blennerhassett Aaron Burr

48. Actress and spy, helped Stonewall Jackson Belle Boyd

49. Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner from Hillsboro Pearl S. Buck

50. White man turned Indian, led Shawnee at the Battle of Fallen Timbers Blue Jacket

51. Bully of the boatman, keel boater on the Ohio an Mississippi Mike Fink

52. Barney Fife on the Andy Griffth Show Don Knotts