Q 01/05

What is the capital of Kentucky?

A) Frankfort

B) Bowling Green

C) Louisville

D) Lexington

Answer · why

A) Frankfort

With about 28,600 people it is only the state's 13th-largest city and the fourth-smallest state capital in the country.

Q 02/05

Kentucky's capital city takes its name from what 1780 incident?

A) A treaty signed frankly, in the open

B) A ford where pioneer Stephen Frank was killed

C) A fort built by Benjamin Franklin's nephew

D) A German settler named Frankfurt

Answer · why

B) A ford where pioneer Stephen Frank was killed

The crossing was called Frank's Ford in his memory, and the name wore down to Frankfort.

Q 03/05

Kentucky was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1792, as which state in order?

A) 21st

B) 12th

C) 15th

D) 18th

Answer · why

C) 15th

It had been part of a neighbouring state; Congress approved statehood two weeks before it approved Vermont's petition.

Q 04/05

Before statehood, Kentucky was part of which state?

A) Tennessee

B) Pennsylvania

C) North Carolina

D) Virginia

Answer · why

D) Virginia

Ten constitutional conventions were held in Danville between 1784 and 1792 before separation finally went through.

Q 05/05

Kentucky's nickname, the Bluegrass State, refers to a grass that was what?

A) Native to Kentucky prairies

B) Introduced by European settlers

C) Planted for the Kentucky Derby

D) Bred at the University of Kentucky

Answer · why

B) Introduced by European settlers

The nickname has never actually been made official by the General Assembly, and no grass has been named the state grass.