Worksheetsquick quizzes 8, 9 and 10
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
This interstate highway connects Morgantown and Cumberland, MD.
Interstate 77
Interstate 68
Interstate 79
Interstae 64
This West Virginia county was named for the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson
Monroe
Mercer
Grant
Among the pioneer scientists of West Virginia was Israel C. White, whose most outstanding contribution to the State's economic progress was his:
application of the anticlinal theory of oil and gas accumulations.
use for new products for wood
research to discover the geology and the physical and chemical properties of coal, oil, and gas.
studies of the flora of West Virginia.
On July 11, 1861, Union troops under this brigadier general defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Rich Mountain.
William S. Rosecrans
Robert E Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Stonewall Jackson
The Greenbrier resort is located in what West Virginia community?
Lewisburg
White Sulphur Springs
Marmet
Wheeling
Who was the first West Virginia native to serve as president of the United Mine Workers?
Arnold Miller
Rick Trumka
Tony Boyle
Cecil Roberts
This Putnam County community was named for the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Eleanor
Ruth
Sydney
Marshall
The West Virginia State Fair is held in this community.
Fairlea
White Sulphir Springs
Ravenswood
Alderson
The first national labor strike began in this West Virginia community
Martinsburg
Wheeling
Harpers Ferry
Pratt
This county was named for a famous early frontiersman who lived in the Kanawha Valley from 1789 to 1795.
Daniel Boone
Lewis Wetzel
Isreal Putnam
Abraham Lincoln
This golf legend served as the golf professional at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs.
Sam Snead
Tiger Woods
Arnold Palmer
Edward Bland
This resident of Hurricane was the nominee of the Prohibition Party for the presidential election in 2012.
Lowell Jackson “Jack” Fellure
Donald Truomp
Robin Davis
Barbara Jo Rubin
On June 24, 1776, Virginia’s Committee of Safety sent 13 prisoners captured from the British sloop Oxford to this present-day West Virginia county.
Berkeley
Ohio
Greenbrier
Kanawha
As proposed, Cass Scenic Railroad had this longer name.
Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat and Bald Knob Scenic Railroad
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Scenic Railroad
Bald Knob Allegheny Mountain Scenic Railroad
Cass Whittaker Scenic Railroad
M. Marsh and Son of Wheeling manufactured this.
Stogies
TOy trains
Marbles
nAILS
What Confederate general from West Virginia was responsible for the burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania during the Civil War?
John McCausland
Albert Jenkins
Stonewall Jackson
Rober E Leee
What was the name of the proposed 14th colony which included most of West Virginia?
Vandalia
Marshall
Allegheny Heights
West Dominion
