Q 01/05

Omaha sits on the bank of which river?

A) Platte

B) Missouri

C) Mississippi

D) Niobrara

Answer · why

B) Missouri

The city lies about 10 miles north of where the Platte flows into it, and much of Omaha is built in the river valley.

Q 02/05

Omaha is the county seat of which Nebraska county?

A) Sarpy

B) Lancaster

C) Douglas

D) Washington

Answer · why

C) Douglas

The eight-county metro area spills across the river into Iowa and holds roughly a million people.

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 Omaha and Ponca tribes speak closely related Siouan languages of the Dhegihan branch.

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

The Lone Tree Ferry that carried them over earned Omaha its nickname, the 'Gateway to the West'.

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

The school began in 1859 inside the Nebraska Territory capitol building itself, and its student paper is the oldest continuously published newspaper w...