201-300, 600-676, 1000-1100 Flashcards
1
Q
Which county is home to the West Virginia
State Fair?
A
Greenbrier
2
Q
On which river can the Sutton Dam be found?
A
Elk River
3
Q
In which West Virginia county can Pricketts
Fort State Park be found?
A
Marion
4
Q
What is the name of the company that manufactures Fiestaware and is located in Newell?
A
Homer Laughlin
5
Q
Which actress attended George
Washington High School in Charleston and was married to Ben Affleck?
A
Jennifer Garner
6
Q
In which state park are Foley Falls and Black Fork Falls located?
A
Twin Falls
7
Q
In which West Virginia community did the first national labor strike begin in 1877?
A
Martinsburg
8
Q
The office of governor is part of which
branch of government?
A
Executive
9
Q
What is the name of the Showboat that
was used as a part of the state’s centennial celebration in 1963?
A
Rhododendron
10
Q
What is the name of the Braxton County
town that was burned by Confederate raiders on December 29, 1861?
A
Sutton
11
Q
Who became West Virginia University’s
first female Mountaineer mascot in 1990?
A
Tennant
12
Q
According to the 2010 census, which West
Virginia county had the smallest population?
A
Wirt
13
Q
Before 1863, West Virginia was apart of which state?
A
Virginia
14
Q
In which county is the Point Pleasant Battle Monument located?
A
Mason
15
Q
What is the name of the arts and crafts
facility located along the West Virginia Turnpike near Beckley that opened in 1996?
A
Tamarack
16
Q
Which labor organizer was known as “the
miners’ angel”?
A
Mother Jones
17
Q
For which Revolutionary War hero was
Clarksburg named?
A
George Rogers Clark
18
Q
“Hot Rod” Hundley was a professional
athlete in which sport?
A
basketball
19
Q
In which county can the prehistoric Cotiga
mound be found?
A
Mingo
20
Q
In which Preston County town does the
annual Buckwheat Festival take place?
A
Kingwood
21
Q
Which Greenbrier County community’s
name is French for “Green Brier”?
A
Ronceverte
22
Q
Which West Virginia county official issues
marriage licenses and registers deeds?
A
county clerk
23
Q
What was the name of the West Virginia
native who was responsible for the establishment of Mother’s Day?
A
Anna Jarvis
24
Q
Which northern panhandle county was
formed in 1776 from the West Augusta District?
A
Ohio
25
In which West Virginia community did the first land battle of the Civil War take place?
Philippi
26
Which West Virginian wrote the song
"Mama's Hand"?
Dickens
27
Marshall's Pillars was an early name for which Fayette County site?
Hawks Nest
28
Which West Virginia community has the lowest elevation?
Harpers Ferry
29
Which West Virginia county was named for the American statesman known as "the
Great Pacificator"?
Clay
30
Which West Virginia native played wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans,
Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL?
Randy Moss
31
Which Marshall County town was home to the former West Virginia Penitentiary?
Moundsville
32
At which Marshall County landmark did Zak Bagans and his crew from Ghost Adventures perform a paranormal investigation during 2008?
West Virginia Penitentiary
33
Which Travel Channel show starring Zak
Bagans held a live paranormal investigation at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston on October 30, 2009?
Ghost Adventures
34
From what natural resource is the majority of West Virginia's electrical power produced?
Coal
35
Which West Virginia governor was responsible for desegregating the state's schools and was later found driving a taxi cab in Chicago?
Marland
36
Which Logan County resident was the winner of America's Got Talent in 2011?
Murphy
37
Which NBC anchor grew up in Morgantown and in 2018 added co-hosting the first two hours of The Today Show to her duties as co-host of the show's fourth hour?
Hoda
38
Which Emmy-Award winning reporter from
CBS News grew up in Wheeling?
Bob Orr
39
Which West Virginia community was home to Kelly Axe, the world's largest axe manufacturer?
Charleston
40
In which Greenbrier community was the first formal golf course in the United States established?
White Sulphur Springs
41
What are the four (4) counties that make up the state's Northern Panhandle?
Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall
42
What is the name of the Confederate commander who captured Buckhannon on
April 29, 1863?
Imboden
43
In which three West Virginia counties do the county and county seat have the same name?
Clay, Logan, Wayne
44
What is the common name for the Shawnee leader who was murdered at
Point Pleasant in 1777?
Cornstalk
45
In which Mingo County community did a gun battle between Baldwin-Felts detectives and striking miners break out on May 19, 1920?
Matewan
46
In which West Virginia town is the Robey Theater, the oldest continuously operating theater in the state, located?
Spencer
47
In which West Virginia town did Barbara Jo
Rubin become the first woman jockey to win a thoroughbred horserace on a U.S. track in 1969?
Charles Town
48
What was the home country of West
Virginia's largest immigrant group in 1910?
Italy
49
What is the name of the former state park, known for its outdoor dramas Hatfields and McCoys and Honey in the Rock?
Grandview
50
What is the name of the Confederate general and congressman from Cabell County who died on May 24, 1864, after being wounded in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain?
Jenkins
51
What is the name of the community center established in the 1930s by Mary Behner on Scotts Run?
The Shack
52
Which statehood leader served as governor of West Virginia for seven days?
Farnsworth
53
What was the name of the woman who escaped from her Shawnee captors in 1755 and took a long journey through the Kanawha and New River valleys?
Ingles
54
Which traditional musician was born
Virginia Myrtle Ellis on February 9, 1900?
Wilson
55
Which native of Alsace became West
Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration?
Diss Debar
56
What was the name of the Marion County native who became the first woman to preside over a Republican state party convention?
Yost
57
What is the name of the man for whom a lake in Mingo and Wyoming counties was named and who presided as the judge in the Matewan Massacre trial?
Bailey
58
What is the name of the stone mansion in Elkins that was completed in 1893 as the summer home of U.S. Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis?
Graceland
59
In which Cabell County community was
Morris Harvey College, now the University of Charleston, originally located?
Barboursville
60
What was the name of the Martinsburg attorney and newspaper publisher who was the first African American admitted to the West Virginia Bar?
Clifford
61
What is the name of the movie released in
2006 that tells the story of the aftermath of the tragic and deadly plane crash of the Marshall University football team on
November 14, 1970?
We Are Marshall
62
What was the name of the Revolutionary War general who led American forces to a decisive victory at Saratoga and had a home located in Jefferson County?
Gates
63
What is the name of the West Virginia native who became the highest ranking African American officer in the Civil War?
Delany
64
Who is the first woman from West Virginia to be elected to the United States Congress?
Kee
65
What was the name of the West Virginian who is believed to be one of only three conscientious objectors in the 20th century to win the Medal of Honor?
Bennett
66
What was the last county to be created before West Virginia became a separate state?
Webster
67
In which West Virginia county did the Golden Delicious apple originate?
Clay
68
What is the name of the Marshall County site that marks the spot where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was completed to the Ohio River in 1852?
Rosbys Rock
69
What is the name of the Belington native who served as West Virginia's Poet Laureate from 1994 until her death in 2012?
McKinney
70
Who was the commander of the colonial army at the battle of Point Pleasant?
Lewis
71
For which hero of both the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War is the county seat of Putnam County named?
Scott
72
What form of government must municipalities with fewer than 2,000 residents form in West Virginia?
Mayor-Council
73
Which West Virginia community was home to the first paved streets in the United States?
Charleston
74
Which county was named for the Revolutionary War general known as the
"Swamp Fox"?
Marion
75
Who was the West Virginia resident who was the last known living U.S. Veteran of World War I?
Buckles
76
Which former West Virginia governor served as the president of the College Board until 2012?
Caperton
77
Which West Virginia county has the smallest area?
Hancock
78
Which West Virginia native won the gold medal in the shotput event during the 1996
Olympic Games?
Barnes
79
What West Virginia community was named for the capital city of Greece?
Athens
80
What is the name of the Fayette County
town that was formerly called Vandalia?
Fayetteville
81
Which baseball legend, nicknamed "Stan the Man," played for Williamson in the Mountain States League in 1938 and 1939?
Musial
82
What is the name of the decree issued by King George Ill on October 7, 1763, that forbade settlement west of the Allegheny
Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
83
What is the name of the gray horse born in Greenbrier County that became General Robert E. Lee's horse during the Civil War?
Traveler
84
What Wirt County town was once named
Beauchamps Mills?
Elizabeth
85
What is the name of the man who began the commercial salt works in the Kanawha Valley in 1797?
Brooks
86
In which county can Carnifex Ferry
Battlefield State Park be found?
Nicholas
87
What is the name of the westernmost region of West Virginia?
Ohio River Valley
88
What was the name of the professional golfer, nicknamed "The Slammer," who became The Greenbrier's golf pro in 1935?
Snead
89
In which county can Moncove Lake State Park be found?
Monroe
90
Which West Virginia county has the most state- and federally owned land?
Pocahontas
91
Which county was named for the Revolutionary War general who was killed at the Battle of Princeton?
Mercer
92
Which German explorer is believed to be the first European to reach the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and to gaze upon present-day West Virginia?
Lederer
93
Which political office also bears the title of
Lieutenant Governor of West Virginia?
President of the Senate
94
In 1896, who became the first African American elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates?
Payne
95
Which decisive Union victory on July 11, 1861, forced Confederates from much of western Virginia and elevated General George McClellan to command of the Army of the Potomac?
Battle of Rich Mountain
96
Name West Virginia's three current members of the U.S. House of Representatives?
McKinley, Mooney, Miller
97
Which Fairmont native has coached the Alabama Crimson Tide football team to several national championships, including one in 2018?
Saban
98
What is the name of the movie that was partially filmed in Weirton and Follansbee and won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Deer Hunter
99
Name the three branches of state government.
Executive, Legislative, Judicial
100
What is the number of the interstate highway that connects Charleston and Parkersburg?
77
101
What is the number of the interstate highway that runs east of Morgantown toward Cumberland, Maryland?
68
102
What is the number of the interstate highway that passes through a tunnel at Wheeling and crosses the Fort Henry
Bridge over the Ohio River?
70
103
What is the number of the U.S. highway that closely follows the road bed of the National Road near Wheeling?
40
104
What is the number of the U.S. highway that closely follows the road bed of the Northwestern Turnpike and connects
Romney to Parkersburg?
50
105
What is the number of the U.S. highway that closely follows the road bed of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike?
60
106
Which prominent actor who starred in
When Harry Met Sally and was the voice of Mike Wazowski in the Pixar film Monsters Inc. received a baseball scholarship to play at Marshall University?
Crystal
107
Which Civil War general was selected by President Abraham Lincoln to command the Union Army after victories in western Virginia?
McClellan
108
Who was the five-time socialist presidential candidate that spent time in the West Virginia Penitentiary for violating the Espionage Act?
Debs
109
What was the name of the Smithers native who was named the top defensive end of the NFL's first 50 years?
Marchetti
110
In which geographic region of West Virginia can Hampshire County be found?
Potomac Section
111
In which community is the annual Wood
Chopping Festival held?
Webster Springs
112
What is the name of a structure where logs are placed leaning against something for support?
Lean-to
113
Which West Virginia county is named for one of the heroes of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Putnam
114
What is the name given to the French and Indian War in Europe?
Seven Years War
115
Which Brooke County town was chartered as Charlestown in 1791?
Wellsburg
116
In which West Virginia county is the West
Virginia Dandelion Festival held?
Greenbrier
117
Who was the painter of three murals for the West Virginia building at the New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940?
Grauer
118
Which Shepherdstown native became one of Illinois's first two U.S. Senators when that state joined the Union?
Thomas
119
Who was the first African American woman to serve as a federal judge in West Virginia?
Berger
120
With a final concrete pour in June 2009 an
1-64 bridge near Charleston became the longest concrete box girder span in the United States. Which river did the bridge cross?
Kanawha
121
In which Eastern Panhandle town is the National Conservation Training Center located?
Shepherdstown
122
Which Hancock County native led an 1862
Civil War raid that was dramatized in the
1956 Walt Disney movie The Great
Locomotive Chase?
Andrews
123
Which West Virginian was appointed
Secretary of War by Benjamin Harrison in 1891?
Elkins
124
What is the name of West Virginia's southernmost county?
McDowell
125
Which former Today host began his journalism career as a producer for WOWK-TV in Huntington?
Lauer
126
Which bridge designed by Charles Ellet, Jr., and constructed between 1846 and 1849 was the first long-span wire-cable suspension bridge in the United States?
Wheeling Suspension Bridge
127
What was the name of the Methodist minister who pressed for the gradual emancipation of slaves during West Virginia's Constitutional Convention in 1861?
Battelle
128
Which former WVU football star played for the Houston Texans and led all NFL rookie running backs in rushing in 2008?
Slaton
129
What is the name of the tourist railroad that travels along the South Branch of the Potomac River, through an area called the Trough?
Potomac Eagle
130
Which 1861 Civil War battle in Nicholas
County was known by the humorous title of the Battle of Knives and Forks?
Battle of Kesslers Cross Lanes
131
Which Tyler County native and publisher of
the Virginia Plain Dealer was West Virginia's first Secretary of State?
Boyers
132
What is the name of the condition that resulted in numerous deaths during the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel?
Silicosis
133
Which prominent Revolutionary-era
Virginian proposed the construction of the James River and Kanawha Canal?
George Washington
134
What was the name of the Greenbrier County camp that housed Italian and German prisoners of war during World War Il?
Camp Ashford
135
What is the name of the first book published in present-day West Virginia?
Christian Panoply
136
Which Tyler County native and publisher of
the Virginia Plain Dealer was West Virginia's first Secretary of State?
Boyers
137
What is the name of the condition that resulted in numerous deaths during the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel?
Silicosis
138
What is the name of the condition that resulted in numerous deaths during the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel?
Silicosis
139
Which prominent Revolutionary-era
Virginian proposed the construction of the James River and Kanawha Canal?
George Washington
140
What was the name of the Greenbrier County camp that housed Italian and German prisoners of war during World War Il?
Camp Ashford
141
What is the name of the first book published in present-day West Virginia?
Christian Panoply
142
What was the name of the Clarksburg native who won an American Library Association award for her children's book
An Edge of the Forest published in 1959?
Smith!
143
Who was elected in 1861 to fill the vacant Restored Government of Virginia's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives formerly held by John S. Carlile?
Blair
144
Which state forest is named for the editor of the Pocahontas Times from 1906 to 1957?
Calvin Price
145
In which community did the Diamond
Department store open its eating facilities to African Americans on May 3, 1960?
Charleston
146
Who is the youngest person to be elected to the West Virginia Legislature?
Saira Blair
147
What is the name of the weighted shaft or handle used to throw spears or darts with more force by hunters of the Archaic culture?
Atlatl
148
Which West Virginia city is home to the
Huntington
first McDonald's Restaurant in the U.S. to offer free charging stations for electric cars?
Huntington
149
Which cable channel did John Hendricks of
Mingo County develop?
The Discovery Channel
150
Which former West Virginia Secretary of State and Congressman wrote The Bridge at Remagen?
Hechler
151
Who was president of the Northwestern
Virginia Railroad and one of the first two U.
S. Senators from West Virginia?
Van Winkle
152
In which community was the movie
Matewan filmed?
Thurmond
153
Which famous opera singer, born in Clarksburg, served as Dean Emerita for the Boston University School for the Arts?
Curtin
154
Which U.S. Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to vote and was ratified by the West Virginia Legislature on March 10, 1920?
19th
155
How many members of each house of the West Virginia legislature are needed to overturn a governor's veto?
Majority
156
Which part of West Virginia has been the fastest growing over the past 20 years?
Potomac Section
157
Which office holder serves as the county treasurer?
Sheriff
158
According to the 2010 Census which county had the largest population?
Kanawha
159
Which famous West Virginia athlete was the model for the NBA logo?
West
160
How many members serve in the West
Virginia Senate?
34
161
What is the name of the old stone house built in the 1820s along the Northwestern Turnpike in Preston County by Henry
Grimes?
Red Horse Tavern
162
Which two future U.S. presidents served in the Union army in West Virginia during the Civil War?
Hayes, McKinley
163
In which community was an African American school named Ramer Memorial
High School located?
Martinsburg
164
Which Confederate general ordered his men to destroy oil derricks and storage tanks at Burning Springs?
Jones
165
In what year did a mine explosion near
Farmington in Marion County lead to significant changes in mining laws after 78 miners died?
1968
166
What are the four (4) regions of West
Virginia from east to west?
Potomac Section, Allegheny Highlands, Allegheny
Plateau, Ohio River Valley
167
What river is mentioned in the song
"Country Roads" which many Americans mistakenly believe is West Virginia's most important river?
Shenandoah River
168
What type of transportation is associated with the legendary figure John Henry?
Railroads
169
On what date did West Virginia officially become a state?
June 20, 1863
170
In which major West Virginia city was a new state government formed during the Civil War?
Wheeling
