Q 01/05

What is the capital of Missouri?

A) Jefferson City

B) St. Louis

C) Kansas City

D) Columbia

Answer · why

A) Jefferson City

It is only the 16th-largest city in the state and the ninth-least-populous state capital in the country.

Q 02/05

What is Missouri's famous unofficial nickname, printed on its licence plates?

A) The Cave State

B) The Gateway State

C) The Bullion State

D) The Show Me State

Answer · why

D) The Show Me State

Congressman Willard Vandiver is credited with the phrase in an 1899 speech: 'I'm from Missouri, and you have got to show me.'

Q 03/05

Missouri is also called the Cave State because it has more than how many recorded caves?

A) 3,000

B) 1,000

C) 7,300

D) 5,500

Answer · why

C) 7,300

Only Tennessee has more; Perry County has the most caves and the single longest one.

Q 04/05

The state is named after a river, which was named after the Missouria people. What does their name mean?

A) Those of the muddy river

B) People of the big water

C) Land of the many hills

D) One who has dugout canoes

Answer · why

D) One who has dugout canoes

French colonists adapted the Illinois-language name Wimihsoorita.

Q 05/05

Missouri joined the Union in 1821 on what terms?

A) Free-soil, under the 1820 Compromise

B) As a Confederate member state

C) Slave-holding, under the 1820 Compromise

D) As a federal territory only

Answer · why

C) Slave-holding, under the 1820 Compromise

Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance, and slavery was banned in Louisiana Purchase lands north of 36°30'.