WV Quick Quiz #26-30
William MacCorkle
"Sunrise," a Charleston museum located in an historic mansion overlooking the city, was built by this West Virginia governor.
Nicholas County
Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park is located in what county?
Parkersburg
The Sumnerite African-American History Museum and Multipurpose Center commemorates Sumner School, the first free school for African Americans in present-day West Virginia. In what Wood County community was the school located?
Elkins
The annual Mountain State Forest Festival is held in this Randolph County community.
Jefferson County
The first Rural Free Delivery system of mail in the United States was implemented in this West Virginia county.
McDowell County
The first food stamps issued in the United States were distributed in this West Virginia county.
Carrie Quinn Dolin
This Barboursville native portrayed First Lady Laura Bush on the television comedy series, "That's My Bush."
Jim Harrick
This Charleston native coached the UCLA Bruins to a men's national basketball title in 1995.
Daniel Mayer
This Charleston resident was the first Jewish state official and first Jewish member of the West Virginia Legislature.
Lewisburg
This Greenbrier County community was named for the man who commanded the colonial force in the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Hal Greer
This Huntington native is the only African-American born in West Virginia to be inducted in a major sports hall of fame.
Shepherdstown
This Jefferson County community was originally established as Mecklenberg.
Jared Arter
This Jefferson County native, a prominent minister and educator, was the first African-American accepted to study at what is now Penn State University.
I. C. White
This Monongalia native was the first to use geology's Anticlinal Theory
Jack Fleming
This Morgantown native, formerly the voice of the West Virginia University Mountaineers, was the radio play- by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Steelers for 28 years and is known for his dramatic call of the "Immaculate Reception," Franco Harris' miraculous TD catch in a 1972 Steelers-Raiders playoff game.
Lew Burdette
This Nitro native, a pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves, won three games against the New York Yankees in the 1957 World Series.
Cass
This Pocahontas County community was named for the chairman of the board of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.
Henry Hatfield
This West Virginia governor settled an end to the 1912-13 Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike.
WVU marching band
This band is known as the "Pride of West Virginia."
Eugene Debs
This five-time Socialist presidential candidate and labor organizer spent time as an inmate of the West Virginia Penitentiary for violation of the Espionage Act.
Jon McBride
This former astronaut, who piloted the Challenger when it was launched on October 5, 1984, was a Republican candidate for governor of West Virginia in 1996.
Bethany College
This institution of higher education is the oldest permanent West Virginia college which has not changed its name.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
This man, the father of Nigerian nationalism and the chief architect of that country's independence, attended Storer College in Harpers Ferry.
Ellen King
This woman, the author of the song "The West Virginia Hills," was born in Glenville on April 22, 1846.
Frederick Douglass
What well-known black abolitionist gave a speech at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on May 30, 1881, about John Brown?
Karl Myers
Who was West Virginia's first poet laureate?
Francis Pierpont and John Kenna
Name the only two West Virginians whose statues stand in the U. S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
Sara Jane Moore
On February 6, 1979, this woman, who was convicted of the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, was captured and returned to the women's federal penitentiary at Alderson after escaping the previous day.
Mason County
Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park is located in what county?
Charles Town
Powhatan College for Young Women (1900-14) was located in this Jefferson County community.
