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Bits of History Questions & Answers for 2007
    
There were 3 multiple answer questions and 3
single answer questions. Eleven answers in all. Here they are. How many did you get?
Questions one through four.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Montana sheet
multiple answer |
The Dust Bowl and the book "Grapes of Wrath"
are related principally to what states and events of the 1930s'? |
John Steinbecks' famous book "Grapes of
Wrath" (1939) was the story of people who moved from Oklahoma and other states to
California during the Great Depression days and the dust bowl days in the southern plains
during the 1930s'. |
Washington sheet
single answer |
Can you finish this little English lesson? i before e
except after c or as sounded like a in neighbor and __________. |
weigh |
Idaho sheet
multiple answer |
The House of Representatives is the term for the lower
house of the legislature for the United States and most states. Which states use the term
House of Delegates? On what basis are representatives or delegates chosen? |
Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. On the basis of
the state and national population. |
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Bits of History Questions & Answers for 2007
Questions five and six.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Wyoming sheet
single answer |
"The Golden Spike" is a symbolic term for
what historical event in Utah's history? |
The completion of the first railroad to cross the
United States. On May 10, 1869 the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union
Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit and drove the final railroad spike
that united the two lines. |
Utah sheet
single answer |
What state is surrounded on three sides by water and
also borders four states? |
Michigan is bounded by Lake Superior, Lake Michigan,
Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie and it borders Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana,
and Ohio. |
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