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1.

What happened on December 17, 1811 that made the Mississippi River flow backward momentarily?

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Answer: An Earthquake
2.

Where was Lewis and Clark's first stop in Illinois?

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Answer: Old Shawneetown
3.

In what year was Southern Illinois University chartered?

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Answer: 1869
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What was Southern Illinois University originally chartered as?

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Answer: Southern Illinois Normal University
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Where was the first bank to be chartered in Illinois?

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Answer: Old Shawneetown
6.

What was southern Illinois known as in the 1830's?

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Answer: Little Egypt
7.

In what county did the infamous "Bloody Vendetta" take place?

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Answer: Williamson County
8.

Who was the leader of the Birger gang that was convicted of ordering the murder of the mayor of West City?

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Answer: Charlie Birger
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Whom did Lewis and Clark recruit at Fort Massac to act as an interpreter?

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Answer: George Drouillard
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When were the earliest inhabitants of Illinois thought to have arrived?

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Answer: 12000 B.C.
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In what year was the first bank in Illinois chartered at Old Shawneetown?

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Answer: 1816
12.

When are the earliest inhabitants of what is now southern Illinois thought to have died out?

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Answer: 1400-1500 A.D.
13.

In what year, after several strikes and conflict, did Joseph Leiter close his Illinois coal mine?

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Answer: 1909
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In what year did the Ku Klux Klan first publicly appear in Williamson County?

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Answer: 1923
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