Quick Quiz 20

JavaScript isn't enabled in your browser, so this file can't be opened. Enable and reload.

Quick Quiz 20

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

1 point

Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad 2-truck Climax steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay No. 6 steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's 3-truck Heisler steam locomotive

Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay No. 5 steam locomotive

Locust Heights and Western Railroad 2-truck Climax steam locomotive

Clear selection

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

1 point

Boone County

Hancock County

Mingo County

Logan County

Mason County

Clear selection

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

1 point

Green Bank

Marlin's Bottom

Camp Bartow

Droop Mountain

Camp Allegheny

Clear selection

The I-79 High-Technology Corridor:

1 point

runs north from Kanawha County to the Pennsylvania state line.

all of these choices

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

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

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

Clear selection

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

1 point

Roscoe C. Harrison

Booker T. Washington

J. R. Clifford

Christopher Payne

Martin Delany

Clear selection

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

1 point

George Armstrong Custer

Henry Capehart

Benjamin Criswell

Woody Williams

Julien E. Gaujot

Clear selection

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.

1 point

Joseph P. Maroney

Terrance L. Williamson

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Peter G. Wallace

Cornel West

Clear selection

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

1 point

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

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

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

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

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.

Clear selection

The president of the West Virginia Senate is chosen by:

1 point

the governor.

the people.

members of the state senate.

drawing straws.

members of the house and senate in joint session.

Clear selection

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

1 point

Fairmont

Wheeling

Logan

Charleston

Martinsburg

Clear selection

Submit

Clear form

Forms

This form was created inside of State of West Virginia.