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The Oklahoma quiz
Topic Started: Jul 28 2004, 03:18 PM (527 Views)
bonja
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I'm gonna guess WWI.

If I'm right will that qualify me to move to Oklahoma?
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doctortobe
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It wasn't WWI. And you have to make at least an 85% on the test.
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Fesarius
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But don't you score at least 85% just for spelling Oaklahoma [sic] correctly? ;)
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doctortobe
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Only if you either spell it or say it in the native language of every Native American tribe in our borders.

Let's try to stay on topic shall we?
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bonja
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Second guess --- The Mexican Revolution
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doctortobe
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Mexico really didn't have much in the way of an Air Force at that time.
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8247
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Apparently we look like this now
The slogan is "Oklahoma is OK"

Thats the only one I got. :banghead:
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doctortobe
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It might say that on our licence plates, but that is not our motto.

We still have 8/10 questions left to solve. I will post hints for all of them.

3. Boise City was the only city in the United States to be bombed in ______.

Hint: Aerial bombing began during WWI, it happened in 1942.

4. An Oklahoman, _________, invented the first shopping cart.

Hint: Umm, his initials were SG (I can't really think of a hint for this one, use the internet)

5. The first capitol of Oklahoma was ________.

Hint: Shares the name with a song that was recently parodied.

6. The state motto is _______.

Hint: Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky would probably like this phrase.

7. The year that the Oklahoma land run was held was ______.

Hint: Our old baseball team is named after this date, it is fourty years after the California gold rush started.

8. Oklahoma's first public school of higher education was _________.

Hint: This school has the best ROTC in the entire Oklahoma/Texas region.

9. An Oklahoman, Clinton Riggs, designed the __________ and first tested it in Tulsa.

Hint: It's triangular and related to driving.

10. Until only a few years ago, the Oklahoma State Capitol building was the only capitol building in the Union not to have a ________.

Hint: Another word for head.
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doctortobe
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Okay, I can see that people have lost interest in my quiz. So, for your education and enjoyment, here are the answers.


3. WWII

A B-17 bomber dropped practice bombs on the city during the night.

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4. Sylvan Goldman

When people didn't take to the idea, he hired people to push them around grocery stores pretending to shop and they caught on.

5. Guthrie

There are two stories of how the capitol was moved.

A. It was moved due to a popular vote by the people

B. The state seal was stolen from the Guthrie capitol building

6. Labor Omnia Vincit

"Labor Conquers All"

7. 1889

Of course, some of the settlers started out a little bit Sooner

8. University of Central Oklahoma

Old North is one of the oldest buildings in the state.

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9. The yield sign.

Whenever you get into an accident because somebody doesn't know how to use one, thank Oklahoma.

10. dome

before

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after

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