Q 01/05

Lexington, Kentucky, the Horse Capital of the World, is in which region of the state, named for its grass?

A) The Bluegrass

B) The Cumberland Plateau

C) The Jackson Purchase

D) The Pennyroyal

Answer · why

A) The Bluegrass

The area's limestone bedrock gives the soil a high calcium content, which planters noticed by 1800 made for hardier horses.

Q 02/05

Frontiersmen camping in Kentucky in June 1775 named their site after hearing news of what?

A) A royal proclamation on the frontier

B) The opening battle in Massachusetts

C) The death of Virginia's governor

D) A fresh land grant from Virginia

Answer · why

B) The opening battle in Massachusetts

It was the first of many American places named after the Massachusetts town, and it happened 17 years before Kentucky became a state.

Q 03/05

Lexington, Kentucky's city government has been merged with which county since 1974?

A) Scott

B) Jessamine

C) Fayette

D) Bourbon

Answer · why

C) Fayette

The consolidated city is coterminous with the county and runs a nonpartisan mayor-council system with 12 districts.

Q 04/05

In 1958 Lexington enacted what national first to protect its surrounding horse farms?

A) A ban on high-rises

B) A greenbelt tax

C) A billboard ban

D) An urban growth boundary

Answer · why

D) An urban growth boundary

New development is restricted to an urban service area, which is why farmland begins so abruptly at the city's edge.

Q 05/05

Keeneland Race Course has held live meets in which two months since 1936?

A) April and October

B) May and September

C) March and November

D) June and August

Answer · why

A) April and October

The track's retro feel is why most of the racing scenes in the 2003 film Seabiscuit were shot there.