Q 01/05

Which comic-book hero grew up on a family farm in Kansas?

A) Superman

B) Batman

C) Captain America

D) Spider-Man

Answer · why

A) Superman

Superman was raised near fictional Smallville, Kansas, and fans in a real Kansas town later campaigned to rename it Smallville.

Q 02/05

Which of these state nicknames belongs to Kansas?

A) Prairie State

B) Cornhusker State

C) Sunflower State

D) Show-Me State

Answer · why

C) Sunflower State

The Sunflower State takes its name from the wild native sunflower, a plant American Indians used for food thousands of years ago.

Q 03/05

In which year was Kansas admitted to the Union as the 34th state?

A) 1848

B) 1854

C) 1858

D) 1861

Answer · why

D) 1861

Statehood came on January 29, weeks after Southern legislators began walking out of Congress, which cleared the way for entry as a free state.

Q 04/05

The violent 1850s struggle over whether the territory would allow slavery is remembered by what name?

A) Bleeding Kansas

B) Burning Kansas

C) The Kansas Rebellion

D) The Territorial Insurrection

Answer · why

A) Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas saw at least 56 documented political killings, a violent prelude to the Civil War that soon followed.

Q 05/05

The 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act repealed which earlier deal that had banned slavery north of a set latitude?

A) Northwest Ordinance

B) Missouri Compromise

C) Wilmot Proviso

D) Compromise of 1850

Answer · why

B) Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise had barred slavery north of 36°30′; repealing it let settlers vote on slavery, and both North and South sent settlers to Kansa...