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WV Studies Mid-Term
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Social Studies
8th Grade
12/14/2011

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Where is the Grave Creek Mound located?
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Moundsville
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What West Virginian wrote "Butterflies of North America"?
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Edwards
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What is the largest subdivision of WV?
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Ohio River Valley
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What NBA hall of famer was originally known as "Zeke from Cabin Creek"?
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West
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In what community was the WV industrial school for women located?
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Salem
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At one time this mercer county town was the home of 19 millionaires
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Bramwell
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Who designed the Great Seal and Coat of Arms of WV?
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Dis Debar
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What martinsberg native was probably the most noted female spy for the confederacy?
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Boyd
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I am a Soldier, Too documents the wartime experiences of the Wirt County native in Iraq
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Lynch
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The first capital of WV was located in what city?
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Wheeling
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This motion picture released in 2006 tells the story of the tragedy's aftermath
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We Are Marshall
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What West Virginian sat on the commission which tried the conspirators against president Abraham Lincoln?
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Harris
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What county was named for the Revolutionary War general killed at the battle of Princeton?
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Mingo
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The first brick street in the US was paved in this city
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Charleston
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This WVU basketball star became the first woman to dunk a basketball in an NCAA game on Dec 21 1984
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Wells
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What is the state insect of WV?
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Honey Bee
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The murder of this Matewan police chief sparked events which led to the battle of Blair Mountain
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Hatfield
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Cass Scenic Railroad is located in what county?
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Pocahontas
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What WV native served as Secretary of the Interior during the administration of President Wilson?
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Payne
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Panther State Forest is located in what county?
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Mcdowell
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Blackwater Falls is located in what WV county?
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Tucker
Term
Big Ugly Wildlife Management Area is located in what WV county?
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Lincoln
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This Randolph County community was formerly known as Fisher
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Mabie
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This pioneer worked as the head of physiology and pharmacology at marshall
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Aserinsky
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This host of the original version of the TV show Hollywood's Squares was born in Huntington
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Marshall
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Bethany College is located in what county?
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Brooke
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This US Senator once served as territorial delegate to Congress for New Mexico
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Elkins
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The first Black college to establish a civilian pilot training program
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WV State College
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Who was the first WV woman nominated for governor by a major political party?
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Pritt
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This Randolph county community was reportedly named for the mother of Edmund Randolph
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Beverly
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The northern part of WV has which type of salt deposit?
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Rock Salt
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Oglebay Park is located in what WV community?
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Ohio
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Cathedral State Park is located in this WV county
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Preston
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This WV native was the first woman to chair a republican party state convention
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Yost
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This county has the highest average elevation west of the Mississippi
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Pocahontas
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This WV native represented the school systems in the historic US Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education
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Davis
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This man was the last owner of White Sulphur Springs
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Morton
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Thomas Jefferson described the scenic view at this town as "worth a voyage across the Atlantic"
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Harper's Ferry
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This MAson County native was WV's first official state historian
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Lewis
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This Monongalia native was the first to use geology's Anticlinal Theory
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I.C. White
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This person spent time as an inmate of the WV Penitentiary for violation of the Espionage Act
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Debs
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This Morgantown native was the radio Play-by-Play announcer for the steelers for 28 years
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Flemming
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Who was WV's first poet laureate?
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Myers
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This Wayne county community was formerly known as Trout's Hill and Fairview
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Wayne
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This Jefferson County was charged as being a spy and executed
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Beall
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Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park is located in what county?
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Mason
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THe author of "The West Virginia Hills" was born in glenville on april 22, 1846
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King
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Gravely originally built the tractor's in an old factory in this Kanawha County community
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Dunbar
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This former resident of Keyser co-wrote the songs Here Comes Peter Cottontail and Frosty the Snowman
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Rollins
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