Q 01/05

Oklahoma City was founded during which 1889 event?

A) The Oil Boom

B) The Gold Rush

C) The Railroad Boom

D) The Land Run

Answer · why

D) The Land Run

The Land Run opened the Unassigned Lands on April 22, 1889, and within hours some 10,000 homesteaders had staked claims around a railway stop called O...

Q 02/05

In 1935 Oklahoma City became the first city in the world to install which street fixture?

A) The traffic light

B) The parking meter

C) The fire hydrant

D) The pay phone

Answer · why

B) The parking meter

The parking meter was newspaperman Carl Magee's answer to downtown workers hogging every space all day; the first 175 went in on July 16, 1935, at a n...

Q 03/05

Which city was Oklahoma's territorial capital before the move to Oklahoma City?

A) Tulsa

B) Guthrie

C) Norman

D) Lawton

Answer · why

B) Guthrie

Guthrie lost the capital in a statewide vote on June 11, 1910, and the state seal was moved to Oklahoma City so quickly that Guthrie's leaders long cl...

Q 04/05

Which territory merged with Oklahoma Territory at statehood?

A) Indian Territory

B) New Mexico Territory

C) Arkansas Territory

D) Kansas Territory

Answer · why

A) Indian Territory

Indian Territory's leaders had asked Congress for a state of their own at the Sequoyah Convention of 1905, but Washington insisted on one merged state...

Q 05/05

Oklahoma City is namechecked in which 1946 Bobby Troup song?

A) Route 66

B) Oklahoma Hills

C) Okie from Muskogee

D) Tulsa Time

Answer · why

A) Route 66

Route 66: Troup wrote it on a 1946 drive to Hollywood with his wife in their Buick, and Nat King Cole's recording helped send post-war holidaymakers o...