Golden Horseshoe Review 13 the growing of both apples and peaches takes place most in which region of West Virginia? Potomac Section.
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Golden Horseshoe
Review 13
the growing of both apples and peaches takes place most in which
region of West Virginia?
Potomac Section
In 2005, the Division of Tourism created this ninth tourism region
to showcasethe southern coalfields.
Hatfield-McCoy
Mountains
Some explanations for very erratic
weather inWest Virginia in the
last several years
1. EI Nino
2. Global warming
3. La Nina
This son of former United States Senator Jennings Randolph was inducted into the Texas Radio
Hall of Fame in 2004.
Jennings "Jay" Randolph, Jr.
(Sportscaster)
The number of caves in West Virginia makes it a
perfect haven for what type of recreation enthusiasts?
spelunkers
These two men were shot and killed on the McDowell County courthouse steps by Baldwin-Felts detectives on August 1, 1921.
Sid Hatfield
and Ed Chambers
What phrase can be found on the signs welcoming travelers into
West Virginia?
Open for Business
This county has more state and federally owned land than any other county inWest Virginia.
Pocahontas
Teays Valley, one of West Virginia's two unique geographical areas, was believed to have once been covered by a:
river
This company, which was West Virginia's largest employer for years, producedchemicals that were used in consumer products such as, Prestone antifreeze,
Eveready batteries, and the insecticide called Sevin.
Union Carbide
The first West Virginia chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality was established in this city in 1958.
Charleston
What is the state insect?
honeybee
On April 14, 1875, Hallie Davis, the daughter of U.S. Senator Henry GassawayDavis, married this man in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stephen B. Elkins
The longest interstate highway system in West Virginia is:
1-77
In West Virginia a person must be eighteen years of age to:
Vote,
Buy tobacco products
Opponents to this industry cite the possibility of toxic chemicals from the millspolluting the surrounding waterways.
pulp
One of the two areas of West Virginia containing flora that are actually foreign tothe state is:
Dolly Sods
Cranberry Glades
What recreation area became a civil rights battleground because it remainedracially segregated even after the 1964
Civil Rights Act outlawed discriminationin places of public accommodation?
Rock Lake Pool
In 2000, West Virginia ranked ninth in the production of this natural resource, forwhich the state had been
the leading producer until 1917.
natural gas
The West Virginia Legislature passed the Safe Schools Law in 1995 in an effortto prevent:
guns from being brought into schools
This popular song by John Denver is not an official state
song:
"Take Me Home, Country
Roads"
This former WVU football coach was inducted into the
College Football Hall ofFame in 2005 and is the
17th winningest coach in college football history.
Don Nehlen
In 1918, 25 percent of all reported deaths in West Virginia
were due to:
influenza
The state tree, which is found in every region of the state, is the:
sugar maple
Which famous West Virginian recently had a portion of highway on Corridor Gnamed for him?
Chuck Yeager
Which of the following qualifications is not necessary for a West Virginian to register to vote?a. United States citizenb. Resident of West Virginia and of the county and municipality in which the person is votingc. Possess no criminal recordd. At least 18 years of age or will be 18 years old before the next generalelection
c. Possess no criminal record
This woman became poet
laureate of West Virginia in 1978.
Louise McNeill
Pease
Who is considered the "Father of St. Albans" for being the first to
bring his familyfrom eastern
Virginia to settle
here in 1816?
Philip Rootes Thompson
Which West Virginia festival is held in Clarksburg every Labor
Day weekend?
Italian Festival
In order to be randomly selected for jury duty in West Virginia, a
citizen must be:
a registered voter
This state college founded in 1901 began serving as a regional
campus for WestVirginia University in 1951.
Potomac State
College
The Lost River, which disappears underground near
Wardensville in HardyCounty, reappears two miles
away as the headwaters of this river.
Cacapon River
In the movie "We Are Marshall", actor Matthew McConaughey portrays which
football coach who took on the challenge of rebuilding Marshall University's
football team after the 1970 plane crash?
Jack Lengyel
This member of the Board of Public Works is not an elected
official.
State Superintendent of Schools
The Grave Creek Mound at Moundsville is a product of this
prehistoric culture.
Adena Culture
The worst mining disaster in decades occurred on January 2,
2006 when anexplosion killed 12 miners at this
coal mine.
Sago
An example of some government powers that are concurrent are:
levying taxes
In 1974 Kanawha County was polarized by disagreement over the selection of:
school textbooks
Which NCAA collegiate
sporting event did West Virginia University
recentlysend a team two
consecutive years?
The Sweet Sixteen basketball tournament
In 2003, this man became West Virginia's first historian laureate.
Otis Rice
According to the census of 2000, this West Virginia county was
the most denselypopulated.
Ohio
This member of West Virginia's
congressional delegation in
Washington DC, waselected in 1982 to the seat formerly held by
his/her father.Alan B. Mollohan
Under a change in the law in 2000, the person who
holds this state governmentposition also bears the title of Lieutenant Governor of
West Virginia.
President of the Senate
Earl Ray Tomblin
This county is the largest in area in the state of West Virginia.
Randolph
With one four year break from 1989 - 1993, this Democrat has
served as StateCommissioner of Agriculture
since 1965.
Gus Douglas
On May 3, 1960, the Diamond Department Store in this city
opened its eatingfacilities to African Americans.
Charleston
A barter system took place in coal field communities. Instead
of cash, the coalcompanies paid their miners in
"scrip". This consisted of:
paper money printed by the coal company or Metal tokens
Stores found in West Virginia during its Statehood and Industrial periods soldwhat were known as "dry goods". These included:
Flour, sugar, beans, tobacco
Economic development in West Virginia has never been exactly the same as
national development,because
1. Commercial agriculture did not contribute to the state's economic growth
2. West Virginia's manufacturing industries were not as numerous, as strong,or as diverse as those in other parts of the U.S.
3. West Virginia became more dependent than any other eastern state on extractive industries
The opening of thestate's vast coal resources
depended upon the building of:
Railroad
West Virginia's backwoods whiskey makers resisted the
federal government'sexcise tax in the late 1800's by:
producing moonshine
How many times has West Virginia's state constitution been
rewritten?
one
In what part of West Virginia did the first full-scale fight of the Civil War
Philippi
The proposed fourteenth colony :
Vandalia
The method used by pioneers to claim land in 18th Century
Virginia was referredto as:
corn rights
The Latin phrase, "Sic jurat transcendere monies" can be
found:
inscribed on miniature golden horseshoes given to explorers by Alexander
Spotswood
In 1751, cartographers Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry published a new map of
western Virginia based on information that came from the
journal of: John Peter Salley
With what religious denomination were the Scots-Irish settlers of West Virginia
affiliated?
Presbyterian
One commodity in short supply on the frontier was:
sugar
The "Pride of West Virginia" is the:
West Virginia University Marching Band
During World War I a large munitions powder plant was built
leading to thedevelopment of which West
Virginia town?
Nitro
In which 20th Century war did West Virginia
have the largest number of deaths
per 100,000 state residents than any other
state in the nation?
Vietnam
This mathematician, who won the 1994
Nobel Prize in Economics, was born
in Bluefield.
John F. Nash
What is the county seat of
Braxton County?
Sutton
This county was named for a famous early
frontiersman who lived in the
Kanawha Valley from 1789 - 1795.
Boone County
As of 2005 the estimated resident population of West Virginia was
recorded as:
1,816,856
(1.8 million)
This former Huntington resident is known as "the father of Black
History".
Carter G. Woodson
To obtain a marriage license or to file a deed, you would go to the
office of:
the county clerk
West Virginia's first governor was a member of what political party?
Constitutional Union
Who is the only African-American born in West Virginia
to be inducted in amajor sports hall of fame?
Hal Greer
This distinguished educator and civil rights leader served as
president of WestVirginia State College from
1919 through 1953.
John W. Davis
Who was the first woman elected to the state Supreme Court of Appeals?
Margaret Workman
What legendary creature from WV folklore is believed to have been a UFO sighted in Braxton County
Flatwoods Monster
The current Chief Justice for the West Virginia State Supreme
Court of Appeals is:
Robin Davis
For which U.S. President did a victory in the West Virginia primary serve as aturning point on his road to the White House?
John F. Kennedy
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