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Golden Horseshoe 6
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Mother Day originated in what town?
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Grafton
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The WV School for the Deaf and Blind is located in -
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Romney
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The oldest college still in operation
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Bethany
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Union Carbide’s first petrochemical plant was located where?
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Clendenin
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Mixture of cotton and wool or flax
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Linsey- woolsey
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The premier builder of covered bridges
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Lemuel Chenoweth
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The battleship U.S.S. West Virginia was sunk at what battle?
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Pearl Harbor
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The “Angel of the Miners”
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Mary Harris Jones
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A mixture of salt and water found in springs near the surface
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Brine
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This forbade settlers west of the Allegheny Mts.
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Proclamation of 1763
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Here you can see parts of WV, Maryland, and Virginia at the same time.
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Harpers Ferry
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He led an expedition across the Blue Ridge Mts. Into the Shenandoah Valley in 1763.
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Alexander Spotswood
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Legend says Pocahontas may have visited these srpings where Douthard Creek enters Knapp’s Creek.
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Minnehaha Springs
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The author of The Good Earth
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Pearl Buck
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Interstate named WV’s High Technology Corridor
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I-79
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The grave of Dick Pointer can be found here
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Lewisburg
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The present day site of Fort Henry
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Wheeling
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The two major political parties in WV
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Republicans and Democrats
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Which of the following was not a pioneer in the RR industry? A. Andrew Carnegie B. Henry Gassaway Davis C. Stephen B. Elkins D. Johnson N. Camden
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A. Andrew Carnegie
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Nail City
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Wheeling
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Name the three branches of government
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Legislative Executive Judicial
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President when WV became a state
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Abraham Lincoln
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The Fairfax Stone is at the head of what river?
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Potomac
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Life in the Iron Mills was written by -
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Rebecca Harding
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Became principal of the Tuskegee Institute
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Booker T. Washington
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Feb. 26, 1972 a gob pile dam collapsed here -
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Buffalo Creek
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1933 homesteader community
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Arthurdale
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Large deposits of this are found in Greenbrier County
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Limestone
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One of the earliest glassmaking plants built by Isaac Duval was located here
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Wellsburg
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Wheeling native who served as president of The United Auto Workers
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Walter P. Reuther
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Today’s Head Start program is modeled after a program organized by -
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Huey Perry
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This invention greatly decreased the number of miners needed
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Continuous miner
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The Logan County sheriff who raised a army to fight the miners at Blair Mountain
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Don Chafin
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Anderson Hatfield is better known as -
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Devil Anse
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This herbal remedy is also the name of a magazine about WV
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Goldenseal
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WV’s national cemetery is located where?
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Grafton
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Who invented a machine for making tumblers and light bulbs
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Michael J. Owens
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Which of the following is not a by-product of coal A. Vaseline B. Vanillin C. Kerosene D. Aspirin
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C. Kerosene
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The Palace of Gold is located in what county?
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Marshall
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“The Aracoma Story” can be seen at what state park?
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Chief Logan
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The careful management of natural resources
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conservation
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An agreement not to join a labor union
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Yellow-dog contract
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