Q 01/05

Omaha sits on the bank of which river?

A) Platte

B) Missouri

C) Mississippi

D) Niobrara

Answer · why

B) Missouri

Omaha sits on the west bank of the Missouri River, which forms Nebraska's eastern border there; the Platte joins the Missouri a short distance south o...

Q 02/05

Omaha is the county seat of which Nebraska county?

A) Sarpy

B) Lancaster

C) Douglas

D) Washington

Answer · why

C) Douglas

Omaha is the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the sponsor of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act that created t...

Q 03/05

In the Omaha language, the city's name means what?

A) Big River

B) Upstream People

C) Flat Water

D) Council Place

Answer · why

B) Upstream People

The name comes from the tribe's own name, Umonhon, meaning 'Upstream People' or 'those going against the current'; Omaha is a Dhegihan Siouan language...

Q 04/05

Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854 when speculators crossed the river from which neighbouring town?

A) Bellevue, Nebraska

B) Sioux City, Iowa

C) St. Joseph, Missouri

D) Council Bluffs, Iowa

Answer · why

D) Council Bluffs, Iowa

Speculators from Council Bluffs, Iowa crossed on William D. Brown's Lone Tree Ferry in 1854 to claim the site, and the ferry helped earn Omaha its 'Ga...

Q 05/05

Omaha was informally founded in 1854 at a picnic on Capital Hill, now the site of what?

A) Creighton University

B) The Joslyn Art Museum

C) Central High School

D) The county courthouse

Answer · why

C) Central High School

Central High School now occupies Capitol Hill; the school opened in 1859 in the old territorial capitol building and moved into its present columned b...