Kentucky Kwiz | April 2018

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1. Which is the official fruit of Kentucky? 

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B. Blackberries edged out blueberries by a free throw.

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2. The town of Irvine, named after Col. William Irvine, hosts which edible festival during the last weekend of April? 

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B. Mushrooms are all the rage in Estill County.

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3. Why is Early Times, produced by Brown-Forman, branded as a whisky instead of a bourbon? 

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C. Bourbon must be aged in new white-oak barrels.

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4. Or years, fans of the Boston Red Sox believed the team was cursed by the spirit of Babe Ruth after his disrespectful 1919 trade to the New York Yankees. The Hanshin (Japanese) Tigers believe they were cursed for 18 years because a life-sized statue of which Kentuckian was thrown into the Dotonbori River during a 1985 fan celebration? 

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C. When the Colonel was recovered from the river in 2009, the Tigers started winning again.

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5. With an elevation of 4,145 feet, the highest point in Kentucky can be found on which mountain? 

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C. Black Mountain is located in Harlan County near the Kentucky-Virginia border.

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6. Which of the constantly revolving actors to portray Col. Harland Sanders in KFC commercials was actually born in Kentucky, a claim even the Colonel can't make? 

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C. Lt. Col. Robert Allen Riggle Jr. was born in Louisville on April 21, 1970.

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7. Bruce Tinsley, the creator of the comic strip Mallard Fillmore, holds a political science degree from Bellarmine University. He was recruited because his strip was seen as a conservative response to which other well-known strip? 

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A. While Garry Trudeau’s longtime strip chronicles the adventures of an array of characters, it is seen as having a liberal viewpoint.

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8. Haley Anne Strode is an actress best known for her roles in ABC's The Astronauts Wives Club who grew up on her family's farm on the Ohio River near which western Kentucky city? 

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C. Owensboro is on the river, and the other two are not.

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9. When John Y. Brown Jr. married former Miss America Phyllis George in 1979, which minister performed the ceremony? 

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A. The author of The Power of Positive Thinking

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10. Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816), the namesake of Bullitt County, named his 1,000-acre farm after which fictional British farm? 

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B. The Oxmoor mall on Shelbyville Road in Louisville is built on a portion of the original Bullitt farm

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Which is the official fruit of Kentucky? 
The town of Irvine, named after Col. William Irvine, hosts which...
Why is Early Times, produced by Brown-Forman, branded as a whisky...
Or years, fans of the Boston Red Sox believed the team was cursed by...
With an elevation of 4,145 feet, the highest point in Kentucky can be...
Which of the constantly revolving actors to portray Col. Harland...
Bruce Tinsley, the creator of the comic strip Mallard Fillmore, holds...
Haley Anne Strode is an actress best known for her roles in ABC's The...
When John Y. Brown Jr. married former Miss America Phyllis George in...
Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816), the namesake of Bullitt County,...
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