This Kentucky Trivia Is Bluegrass Tough

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Quizzes Created: 4 | Total Attempts: 1,704
Questions: 18 | Viewed: 875
1.

In which region of the United States is the state of Kentucky located?

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Answer: South
2.

Where is the Kentucky Derby held?

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Answer: Louisville
3.

What color is Kentucky bluegrass?

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Answer: Green
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What Kentucky attraction is the world's longest cave?

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Answer: Mammoth Cave
5.

What Kentucky town sits on an $11 billion gold mine?

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Answer: Fort Knox
6.

What did Kentucky adventurer and inventor James Bowie invent?

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Answer: Bowie Knife
7.

Where is the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders located?

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Answer: Corbin, KY
8.

Whose Transylvania Company was the first to settle Kentucky in 1775?

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Answer: Daniel Boone
9.

What Kentucky town is the only one in the U.S. to be built in a meteor crater?

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Answer: Middlesboro
10.

Which river in Kentucky changed its course in 1811-12, flowing backward after an earthquake?

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Answer: Mississippi
11.

How high, in feet, are the biggest rooms in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky?

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Answer: 200
12.

Kentucky, with a land area of 39732 square miles, is ranked here compared to other states in total land area?

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Answer: 37th
13.

What is the state bird and state tree of Kentucky?

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Answer: Cardinal And Tulip Tree
14.

When did Kentucky achieve statehood in the USA?

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Answer: June 1, 1792
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How many states border Kentucky?

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Answer: Seven
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Who was the first and perhaps only Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to be born in jail?

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Answer: Frederick Vinson
17.

Where was the first American performance of a Beethoven symphony?

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Answer: Lexington, KY
18.

What landform stretches from New York to Alabama, but changes its name within the Kentucky borders?

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Answer: Appalachian Plateau
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