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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?