| Des Moines experiences a variety of weather and natural phenomena. It is most prone to which natural disasters? | |
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| Floods and tornadoes | Tornadoes and grass fires |
| Floods and earthquakes | Grass fires and earthquakes |
| Conceived as a competitor to the SAT, what Iowa-spawned standardized college prep test surpassed the SAT by number of test takers back in 2012? | |
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| CBEST | CSET |
| ACT | STAR |
| Iowas state abbreviation is ___ | |
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| IO | IA |
| IW | none of the above |
| What is Iowas state bird? | |
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| Golden finch | Red breasted Robin |
| Blue heron | Eastern goldfinch |
| The first people came to what’s now Iowa at least ______ years ago. Thousands of years later Native American tribes including the Dakota Sioux, Illini, Ioway, Missouria, and Otoe lived on the land. | |
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| 8,000 | 10,000 |
| 12,000 | 15,000 |
| French explorers reached the area in ____, and in 1682 the land was claimed by France | |
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| 1666 | 1673 |
| 1677 | 1699 |
| In ____ the United States acquired the territory through the Louisiana Purchase. Iowa became the 29th state in 1846. | |
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| 1803 | 1813 |
| 1823 | 1833 |
| ____ outnumber humans in Iowa. | |
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| Wild turkeys | Wild hogs |
| Opposum | Raccoon |
| A Famous Brand of Motorhome Owes its Name to Iowa The Winnebago, a famous brand of motorhome, takes its name from the Iowan city in which the vehicle was first constructed. Winnebago Industries was established in Forest City, Iowa in ____ and has been creating safe and sturdy travel trailers for vacationers ever since | |
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| 1952 | 1955 |
| 1958 | 1971 |
| _____% of Iowa is farmland. | |
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| 62 | 80 |
| 92 | 94 |
| Iowa has ____ golf courses spread throughout the state. | |
|---|---|
| 412 | 421 |
| 441 | 456 |
| John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa in _____. | |
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| 1902 | 1907 |
| 1910 | 1919 |
| An asteroid struck Iowa. The crater that occurred when the asteroid struck is around about _____ miles in diameter and is actually hidden under the surface of the earth. The crater left by the asteroid is called the Manson Impact Crater. It lies directly under the surface of the earth in the south-east corner of Pocahontas County. | |
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| 12 | 18 |
| 20 | 24 |
| Not many people know that the state of Iowa has its own island city. It’s called Sabula and is located on an island on the Mississippi River. As of 2015, Sabula has a little under ____inhabitants. | |
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| 400 | 500 |
| 600 | 900 |
| The Most Crooked Street in the World Is in Iowa- true or false? | |
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| True | False |
| Snake Alley in Burlington is the owner of the title of the world’s most crooked street. It is so steep and so crooked it is restricted to one-way downhill traffic only. The thoroughfare was originally designed to link the shopping district of the city to the downtown area. The street hosts an annual bike race and an art fair. | |
| Iowa Created Sliced Bread! The last in our series of Iowa facts is a strange, but funny one! We are all familiar with the saying the best thing since sliced bread, but how many of us actually realize that sliced bread was invented in Iowa! A man called Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first “loaf at a time” machine that could turn a loaf into a series of individual slices. His original prototype for the machine was built in 1912 but was destroyed in a fire. It took him 16 years to create another machine and get it ready to market. The first sliced loaf was created on _____. | |
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| July 1, 1920 | July 5, 1924 |
| July 7, 1928 | July 20, 1929 |