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1.
  Cities and Towns in Oklahoma    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Oklahoma has a lot of towns and cities with strange names. A lot of them pertain to the large Native American population that resides in the state or once used the territory as their hunting grounds.
Average, 15 Qns, frankray, Apr 06 14
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  Oklahoma History    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Oklahoma History from before Coronado to the 1940's.
Difficult, 10 Qns, zilla, Dec 16 02
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trivia question Quick Question
There is a town in Oklahoma that changed its name to the most famous movie singing cowboy star. Who is it?

From Quiz "Cities and Towns in Oklahoma"




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Oklahoma History Trivia Questions
1. This was a fierce Native American tribe. Cochise was a chief. Geronimo was a medicine man.

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Apache

Apache is a small town located in Caddo County, north of Lawton/Ft. Sill. The Apache were really more west than Oklahoma and were resettled in Oklahoma. Their orignal range was in Arizona and New Mexico.

2. How many regions does Oklahoma have?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: 10

They are Gypsum Hills, Sandstone Hills, Oauchita Mountains, Ozark Plateau, Red Bed Plains, Red River Plains, Wichita Mountains, Arbuckle Mountains and High Plains.

3. Those shaggy coated animals of the plains.

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Buffalo

Buffalo is the county seat of Harper County, located in northwestern Oklahoma. There is a very nice size herd of buffalo in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, just located north of the Lawton/Ft. Sill area. Also there is a herd of longhorn cattle on the Refuge. I especially like the prairie dog village that is in the Refuge.

4. Pemmican was a food eaten by Apache indians. What is pemmican?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: Dried meat, berries and fat saved for winter

The corn prepared with lye is called hominy.

5. The president who was elected to two non-consecutive terms.

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Cleveland

Cleveland is located in Pawnee County in northeastern Oklahoma. Grover Cleveland was the president elected to two non-consecutive terms. Also he was the first Democrat president elected after the Civil War. Cleveland's first term was 1885. There were five Republican presidents between the end of the Civil War and Cleveland's election.

6. Sequoyah was the Cherokee who invented the Cherokee written syllabary. What was his other name?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: George Gist

He was also known as George Guess.

7. A city in Oklahoma shares its named with a late 20th century president. Which one?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Clinton

Clinton is located in western Oklahoma on the historic Route 66.

8. Kit Carson commanded the First Regiment of New Mexico Cavalry volunteers in setting up Fort Nichols in the panhandle of Oklahoma. What rank did he hold?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: Colonel

His real name was Christopher.

9. This is another fierce Native American tribe. They were said to be the best light horse cavalry ever. Quanah Parker was the last major war chief.

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Comanche

Comanche is located in Stephens County, south of Duncan, in southwestern part of Oklahoma. The territory of Oklahoma was part of the Comanche's hunting grounds. The tribe headquarters is now centered around Lawton/Ft. Sill.

10. A town in Oklahoma was named after the victor of the Battle of Manila Bay. Who was he?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Dewey

Dewey is located in Washington County in northestern Oklahoma. Manila Bay was the first battle and victory for the U.S. in the Spanish-American War. Dewey's famous phrase was: "You may fire when ready, Gridley." Gridley was the captain of the flagship, Olympia, that Admiral Dewey was on.

11. How early did the gun go off at Arkansas City for the land run of the Cherokee Outlet?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: 11 minutes

Nothing could stop the crowd. The gun at Hennessey also went off early, but only by 5 minutes.

12. A town in Oklahoma is named after a wild horse. What is it?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Mustang

Mustang is located in Canadian County, just southwest of Oklahoma City. Well, according to the reference books, the horses in America are not wild but feral. They are descendants of the horses brought over by the Spanish in the 16th century.

13. In what year did the Oklahoma Territory legislature first meet?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: 1890

They created a public health service and regulated the practices of dentistry, pharmacy and medicine.

14. There is a town in Oklahoma named after a World War I general. Who is he?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Pershing

Pershing is located in Osage County, north of Tulsa. General Pershing was a mentor to the other three generals listed. Pershing was the highest ranking general promoted during this lifetime. He was General of the Armies.

15. Roscoe Dunjee, the publisher of 'The Black Dispatch', encouraged a shoemaker named William Floyd to do what?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: Move into a white neighborhood to test the law

He encouraged him to buy a house in a white neighborhood and try to move in to test the ordinance that it was illegal for anyone to move onto a block on which more than 75 percent of the buildings were occupied by people of a different race. He tried to move in four times, and every time he was arrested and put in jail. Each time, Dunjee paid the bond and encouraged him to try again. Eventually the case was taken to court and the federal judge ruled that the ordinance was Unconstitutional and that Floyd had the right to move onto his property.

16. What is another name for a mountain lion?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Panther

Panther is located in Haskell County, in the southeastern part of Oklahoma - southeast of Muskogee.

17. Black Gold! 'The Oil and Gas Journal' moved from Texas to where because of the amount of activity in Oklahoma?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: Tulsa

It was called 'The Oil Man's Bible'.

18. Who was the largest, heaviest, president?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Taft

William Howard Taft never wanted to be president. He really wanted to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. After his term of office as president, he was appointed to that position.

19. Opened in 1948, what was the first turnpike in Oklahoma?

From Quiz Oklahoma History

Answer: Turner

20. What is the name of the famous lever action weapon?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Winchester

Winchester is a small town in east central Oklahoma in Okmulgee County.

21. What is the name of an animal trapped for its fur?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Beaver

Beaver is the county seat of Beaver County, which is the eastern county in the panhandle.

22. There is a town in Oklahoma that changed its name to the most famous movie singing cowboy star. Who is it?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Gene Autry

Gene Autry is in Carter County, and is located in the south central part of Oklahoma. All the listed are famous movie cowboy singing stars, but Gene Autry was the most famous and popular. Autry's most famous song, however, is the "Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer".

23. What is the name of the person who was a Rough Rider, President and as strong as a bull-moose?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Roosevelt

Roosevelt is located in Kiowa County in southwestern Oklahoma.

24. What was the common name of the chief lawman of an early western town?

From Quiz Cities and Towns in Oklahoma

Answer: Marshal

Marshall is a small town located in Logan County, north of Oklahoma City.

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