Quick Quiz 20

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Quick Quiz 20

In 2004, the legislature passed a resolution adopting this as the state locomotive. Be specific.

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Locust Heights and Western Railroad 2-truck Climax steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's 3-truck Heisler steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay No. 6 steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay No. 5 steam locomotive

Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad 2-truck Climax steam locomotive

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Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area is located in what West Virginia county?

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Mingo County

Hancock County

Logan County

Boone County

Mason County

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One of the most significant Civil War battles in West Virginia was fought at this Pocahontas County location on November 6, 1863.

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Marlin's Bottom

Droop Mountain

Green Bank

Camp Bartow

Camp Allegheny

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The I-79 High-Technology Corridor:

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created more than 50,000 jobs in north-central West Virginia over a 15-year period.

was developed to balance the growth of extractive industries in north-central West Virginia.

all of these choices

runs north from Kanawha County to the Pennsylvania state line.

has brought biometric and aerospace industries to north-central West Virginia.

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In 1882, this man established The Pioneer Press, West Virginia's first African-American newspaper.

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Martin Delany

J. R. Clifford

Booker T. Washington

Roscoe C. Harrison

Christopher Payne

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This Marshall County native received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on June 25, 1876, at the Little Big Horn River.

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George Armstrong Custer

Julien E. Gaujot

Woody Williams

Benjamin Criswell

Henry Capehart

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This native of Piedmont, a leading African-American scholar and author of Colored People, serves as director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Joseph P. Maroney

Terrance L. Williamson

Peter G. Wallace

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Cornel West

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West Virginians worried about the downside of efforts to curb global warming are MOST concerned that:

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such efforts target carbon emissions and could bring regulations that would disrupt the coal industry.

such efforts target tree emissions and could bring regulations that would destroy the timber industry.

such efforts could backfire and propel the planet into another Ice Age, bringing arctic conditions to West Virginia.

such efforts target greenhouse gases and could lead to a ban on commercial greenhouses, the major source of West Virginia's flower and vegetable produce.

such efforts target farm emissions and could limit the number of livestock people could own.

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The president of the West Virginia Senate is chosen by:

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the governor.

the people.

members of the house and senate in joint session.

members of the state senate.

drawing straws.

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In 1900, this city had more than one-third of the craft-union membership in West Virginia.

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Wheeling

Logan

Martinsburg

Charleston

Fairmont

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