WorksheetsWV HISTORY DAILY
Total questions: 79
Worksheet time: 1hrs 19mins
What Harpers Ferry institution, opened in 1867, was the first African-American college in West Virginia?
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What Hardy County lake is the only natural lake in West Virginia?
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Which educator, whose novel Hearts of Gold was the first published by an African American in West Virginia, was installed as principal of the West Virginia State Colored Institute on September 21, 1898?
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The Grave Creek Mound at Moundsville is a product of what prehistoric culture?
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On September 23, 1938, what tree, estimated to date before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, was cut down.
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What grammy-winning country music group, whose singles include "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read," formed in Paw Paw?
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Which radio station went on the air in Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1923, and later moved to Huntington, where it began regular broadcasts in 1927?
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Which corporation was created by the West Virginia Legislature to generate economic development in southern West Virginia through a system of recreational trails for off-highway vehicles
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Which athlete, for whom a Huntington street is named, was the first African American to play sports at Marshall University?
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz's 1880 painting The Ironworker's Noontime shows nail factory workers in what city?
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Which noted frontiersman, best known for his exploration and settlement in Kentucky, represented Kanawha County in the Virginia General Assembly in 1791?
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This abolitionist led a band of men in seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859.
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These two men led the expedition into the Virginia frontier in 1671 that is named for them and that gave support to later English claims to the Ohio Valley.
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This West Virginia native's best known book was Hawk's Nest, published in 1941.
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Glade Creek Grist Mill is located in this state park.
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This county became the first in West Virginia to establish a free school when a school opened at Sinks Grove in 1829.
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On October 8, 1924, this major league baseball team played the second of two games against the McDowell County All-Stars in Welch.
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What is the state animal?
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Which African American lawyer and newspaper owner/editor died in Martinsburg on October 6, 1933.
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Which man is the only West Virginia governor to have served three 4-year terms?
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This 2019 movie starring Mark Ruffalo is based on a true story of a chemical company’s pollution of water near Parkersburg.
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Native American artifacts and skeletal remains from this South Charleston mound are housed at the Smithsonian Institution.
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The Hughes River is a tributary of this river that flows into the Ohio River.
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A rock pillar at Seneca Rocks known by this name collapsed on October 22, 1987.
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This German was the first known European to reach the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains (1669-1671) and see present-day West Virginia.
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In 1969, Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman jockey to win a thoroughbred horse race on a U.S. track when she rode Cohesion to victory on the track in this town.
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This Shepherdstown native was superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps from 1943 to 1947.
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West Virginia will have this many Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election.
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( Now Called) Which radio station went on the air in Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1923, and later moved to Huntington, where it began regular broadcasts in 1927?
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Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys recalls his boyhood in this McDowell County town
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Fiestaware is manufactured by this company.
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Tri-State Airport is located in this county.
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Between 1959 and 1962, a secret U.S. government bunker was built at this West Virginia resort.
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This ancient river, one of the largest in North America during the Ice Age, was responsible for the creation of the New River Gorge.
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This Pendleton County site is the highest point of elevation in West Virginia.
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This Charleston-born author of Follow the Furies, published in 1935, was the daughter of a former United States senator.
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What West Virginia county borders both Lawrence County, Ohio, and Lawrence County, Kentucky?
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his country music star, who was born and raised in Marshall County, won the 2006 Country Music Association award for Album of the Year.
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This prehistoric Native American culture from the Woodland Period is association with a large mound at Romney’s Indian Mound Cemetery in Hampshire County.
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Early coal companies often used this medium of exchange instead of cash to pay miners
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This burlesque performer was born Fanny Belle Fleming in Wayne County in 1932.
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The community of Pickle Street is located in this county.
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In 2008, the West Virginia Legislature adopted this as the official state tartan.
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During the Civil War, saltpetre in this Greenbrier County cave was extracted for gunpowder by Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee.
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This river flows into the Ohio River at Parkersburg.
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This lyricist for the song “Frosty the Snow Man” was born in Keyser in 1906.
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These two counties were created from the West Augusta District in 1776.
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The chandelier handing in the main rotunda of the West Virginia capitol is made of hand-cut crystals imported from this country.
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This author of The Bridge at Remagen represented West Virginia in Congress from 1959-1977 and was West Virginia’s Secretary of State from 1985 to 2001.
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This company opened a shipyard at Point Pleasant in 1915.
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This West Virginia county, formed in 1866 from Hardy County, was named for a Union Civil War general who later became president of the United States.
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This West Virginia county borders both Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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This Kanawha County community was once known as Coalsmouth.
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These 4 men, who raided Harpers Ferry in October 1859, were executed in Charles Town on December 16, 1859.
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This county seat of Webster County was once called Addison.
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Harewood, in Jefferson County, was built by this brother of George Washington.
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The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in Williamson is located in a building made of 65 tons of this substance.
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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is a biography of this Bluefield native.
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On December 22, 1926, WMMN Radio went on the air in this town.
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This county is the largest in area in the State of West Virginia.
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Richwood was established as a sawmill town by this company.
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This fruit is nicknamed the “West Virginia banana.”
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This native of Moundsville was the first president of the West Virginia Board of Control.
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Architect Alfred B. Mullett designed this Morgan County house for Samuel Taylor Suit.
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The John Henry statue in Talcott was created by this Michigan sculptor.
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West Virginia has how many judicial circuits?
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This county official may serve no more than two consecutive terms under the state constitution.
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This name of this state forest combines parts of the names of the counties of Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln, and Mingo.
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This state park was created through Civilian Conservation Corps efforts.
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This Civil War fortification in Pocahontas County, also known as Camp Johnson and Camp Baldwin, was the site of a December 1861 battle.
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Mason County native Michael J. Owens was an automation pioneer in this industry.
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He was the first West Virginia governor to be inaugurated in January
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The showboat used as part of the state’s centennial celebration in 1963 was called this, the name of the state flower.
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During the early nineteenth century what extractive resource consistently led all others in production in West Virginia?
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The United States Constitution outlines powers given the federal government and those denied the states. Other powers are reserved to the states under which provision of the constitution
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This Marshall County stone marks the spot where the B&O Railroad was completed to the Ohio River in 1852.
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Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area is located in this county.
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This Charleston native wrote O Beulah Land.
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Glass manufacturer Michael J. Owens was born in this county in 1859.
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