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State Symbols

Birthplace of author Mark

Twain

What is Florida?

Birthplace of President Harry

S. Truman

What is Lamar?

Birthplace of basketball

player and N.J. senator Bill

Bradley

What is Crystal City?

Birthplace of poet Langston

Hughes

What is Joplin?

Birthplace of merchant

J.C. Penney

What is Hamilton?

Missouri state capitol

What is Jefferson City?

Starting place of the Pony

Express

What is St. Joseph?

"The Gateway to the West"

What is St. Louis?

Missouri's oldest community was founded as early

as 1735

What is Saint Genevieve?

Holds the state record for the

low temperature of -40 degrees

on February 13, 1905

What is Warsaw?

Missouri state bird

What is the bluebird?

Missouri state tree

What is the flowering dogwood?

Missouri state animal

What is the Missouri mule?

Missouri state flower

What is the hawthorn?

Missouri state fossil

What is the crinoid?

Has more miles of boulevards than Paris and more fountains than any city except Rome

What is Kansas City?

Became the state song

under an act adopted by the

General Assembly on

June 30, 1949

What is the “Missouri Waltz?”

Made from a moving airplane

was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in

1912

What is the first successful parachute?

Holds the state record for the high

temperature recorded, 118

degrees on July 14, 1954

What is Warsaw?

Occurred in 1811, centered in New Madrid,

Missouri

What is the most powerful earthquake to

strike the United States?

630-foot stainless steel

structure completed on October 28,

1965

What is the Gateway Arch?

Aug. 10, 1821

What is the date Missouri became a state (entered

union)?

Oldest University west

of the Mississippi

What is Saint Louis

University?

Invented by Richard

Blechyden at the St. Louis

World's Fair in 1904

What is iced tea?

Founded by Auguste

Chouteau in 1764

What is Saint Louis?

Missouri State Governor

Who is Matt Blunt?

Number of electoral votes in presidential

elections

What is 11?

In 1865, Missouri

became the state to do this

What is become the first slave

state to free its slaves?

The welfare of the people shall be the supreme

law

What is the state motto?

Completed in 1917 and occupied the following year it is

the third in Jefferson City and the sixth in

Missouri history

What is the Capitol building?

Make your wager

Missouri is bordered by this

number of states

What is 8?