Q 01/05

What is the capital of Kentucky?

A) Frankfort

B) Bowling Green

C) Louisville

D) Lexington

Answer · why

A) Frankfort

Frankfort has been the capital since Kentucky's statehood in 1792; with roughly 28,000 residents it is among the smallest state capitals, far smaller ...

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

Kentucky became the 15th state on June 1, 1792; Congress had passed its admission act in February 1791, two weeks before Vermont's, but Vermont entere...

Q 04/05

Before statehood, Kentucky was part of which state?

A) Tennessee

B) Pennsylvania

C) North Carolina

D) Virginia

Answer · why

D) Virginia

Kentucky was Virginia's western district, organized as Kentucky County in 1776; ten statehood conventions met at Danville between 1784 and 1792 before...

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

Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis, was introduced by European settlers; it is native to Europe and northern Asia and spread across the region's limest...