Tulsa History: Jeopardy Review Game
A BCDE
A kind of dark yellowish black oil that is found below the ground
What is petroleum?
Gasoline, Fuel, Oil, and Kerosene
What are substances made from petroleum?
Chelsea
What is the town where oil was first discovered?
The Oil Capital of the World
What is Tulsa?
Oil-Related Businesses
What are drilling, marketing, and refining?
The famous oilman who opened Tulsa’s International Airport
Who is W.G. Skelly?
A natural resource brought that brought thousands of people and new businesses to Tulsa
What is oil?
The person who opened the first business in Tulsa
Who is Lewis Perryman?
Two major art museums located in Tulsa
What are Gilcrease and Philbrook?
A nickname that given to Tulsa’s first new high school
What is Our Lady of Mud?
Three Institutions of higher learning located in Tulsa
What are University of Tulsa (TU), Tulsa Community College (TCC), and Oral Roberts University (ORU)?
A church building that was destroyed in the 1921 race riot, forty days after it was completed
What was Mount Zion Baptist Church?
The name of Greenwood prior to the race riot of 1921
What is “Black Wall Street of America”?
The name of the journey that the Cherokee Indians and other southeastern Indians from their home in Alabama to the Indian Territory
What is the Trail of Tears?
The landmark located at 1730 S. Cheyenne Avenue and recognized as the founding of Tulsa
What is the Creek Council Oak Tree?
Tulsa’s first newspaper
What is the Indian Chief?
Tulsa’s most famous newspaper
What is the Tulsa World?
Tulsa’s 36-story skyscraper that began as a 16-story building in 1918
What is the Mid-Continent Tower?
The first state monument that is located at the Expo Square
What is the Golden Driller?
The location of the oldest existing house in Tulsa
What is Owen Park?
The generous Tulsa oilman who donated millions of dollars to the Boy Scouts of America
Who is Waite Phillips?
The female philanthropist who started the Tulsa YWCA in her own house
Who is Jane Heard Clinton?
The largest oil field in the United States in 1905
What was The Glenn Pool?
Four Q streets in Tulsa
What are Quaker, Quanah, Quebec, Quincy, and Queen?
The source of power for fire trucks and ambulances in the early days of Tulsa
What was horse-drawn?