U.S.A: All about Nebraska Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kimball

The county seat of Kimball County is Kimball.

Panorama Point is approximately 5,430 feet (1,655 m) high. The peak is situated in the south-west of Kimball County, near Nebraska's border with Wyoming.

Answer: Hastings

In 1927, Edwin Perkins invented Kool Aid in Hastings, Nebraska. He had a small mail order business there, and one of the problems he faced in his business was the glass bottles that contained syrup breaking in transit. To solve this problem he invented a powder concentrate of his product. Thus, Kool-Aid was born. There is a festival dedicated to Kool-Aid every August in Hastings.

Hastings is the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska. During World War II, Hastings possessed the largest Naval Ammunition Depot of the U.S Navy, producing more than 40% of the U.S. Navy's armaments.

Answer: Ashland

Ashland is located in Saunders County, Nebraska, about half way between the Nebraskan cities of Lincoln and Omaha. It is the birthplace and home town of astronaut, professor and motivational speaker, Clayton Anderson.

The Strategic Air and Space Museum is a museum that mainly holds exhibits of aircraft and nuclear missiles, that the U.S army employed during the Cold War. Due to the conditions of much of the aircraft from being stored outside too long, there was a $33 million campaign to get the aircraft inside and protected from the elements, in 1998.

One feature of this museum is the Apollo command and service module - one half of the two major components for the United States Apollo spacecraft, which saw astronauts landing on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 as part of the Apollo program.

Answer: Missouri

The border with Missouri is located in the south-east of Nebraska. The Missouri River forms this border between the states. The tip of the state of Missouri touches Nebraska, whereas the other states have much longer borders.

Nebraska borders South Dakota to the north, Colorado to the south-west, Kansas to the south and Wyoming to the west. The Missouri River forms the short border between Nebraska and Missouri, as it does the much longer border with Iowa to the east.

Answer: First National Bank Tower

Also known as the One First National Center, the First National Bank Tower is 634 feet (193 m) high. Construction was completed in 2002, surpassing Nebraska's 478 ft (146 m) Woodmen Tower, which had been the tallest building in Nebraska since 1969 until then.

The architect for the First National Bank Tower was the Leo A Daly firm.

Answer: Tilden

Tilden is a city located in both Antelope County and Madison County of Nebraska. Tilden was originally called Burnett until 1887, partly because of confusion with the village of Bennet, Lancaster County, Nebraska. The city is named for Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat who was Governor of New York, and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S presidency in 1876.

L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden in 1911.

Answer: Alliance

Alliance is situated in the west of Nebraska, and is the county seat of Box Butte County.

Carhenge is composed of vintage American cars, all coated in grey spray-paint. There are 39 automobiles arranged in a circle, mimicking Stonehenge's current condition, not how it was for its original use (what ever that may have been). Carhenge was built and conceptualized by Jim Reinders, and his work was dedicated in 1987.

Answer: Lincoln

In late 1920, Charles Lindbergh was enrolled the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however he dropped out. By 1922 he had travelled to Lincoln, Nebraska to instead pursue training as an air pilot. He paid $300 (a small fortune in 1922) for ten hours of lessons. His instructors saw how gifted he was and let him skip some flying lessons in order to practice parachute jumping.

Lincoln is the state capital of Nebraska, and also capital of Lancaster County.

Answer: Dakota City

Dakota City is the county seat of Dakota County, Nebraska. It was founded in 1856 and is named for the Native American Dakota tribe.

Tyson Foods, Inc has its largest beef production factory in Dakota City.

The Emmanuel Lutheran Church has been standing since 1860, and is thought to be the first Lutheran Church constructed in Nebraska, although it is verified to be the eldest. It has been on America's National Register of Historic Places since 1969.

Answer: Blair

John Insley Blair (1802 - 1899) was one of the wealthiest men of the 19th century. He established the (what is now a city) of Blair, Nebraska by purchasing a 1,075-acre (4.35 km2) lot of land in 1869. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad wished to extend to that point, using it to cross the Missouri River from there. John Insley Blair is credited with bringing the railway to this area.

Blair was considered a city in 1872, and is the capital of Washington County, Nebraska.

Answer: Susan La Flesche Picotte

Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital is a former hospital located on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the village of Walthill, Nebraska. Picotte helped build this hospital herself using the funds she had raised from various places, making this hospital the first hospital built on a Native American reservation not established by government money. The building functioned as a hospital until the 1940s. Now it is used for a variety of functions and has a museum.

Susan La Flesche Picotte was born in 1865 in the Omaha tribe, with her father, Joseph LaFlesche being the chief of the tribe. She studied at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, before returning to the reservation to assist medically there. She tried to discourage drinking alcohol on the reservation, as part of the temperance movement of the 19th century, which rallied against alcohol use.

Answer: Oakland

Since it was founded over 100 years ago, Oakland has always embraced its Swedish heritage. Many citizens are direct descendants of Swedish immigrants, and the festival takes place on the first Friday of June, on odd numbered years.

Loup City does celebrate a heritage festival on the first weekend of June (although annually as opposed to biannually) but this is to celebrate Loup City's Polish heritage. Loup City is the self-proclaimed "Polish capital of Nebraska."

Answer: Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1913. However, his birth name was Leslie Lynch King. Gerald Ford's biological father was physically and verbally abusive to his mother, and despite it being severely against social norms at the time, Gerald Ford's mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, left Leslie Lynch King Sr in around 1913.

In 1917, Dorothy Ayer Gardner King married Gerald Rudolff Ford. Gerald, although never formally adopted by him, believed he was the biological son of Gerald Rudolff Ford until he was around 15.

Gerald Ford was President from 1974 - 1977. During his time in office he gave former U.S President, Richard Nixon, a pardon for any crimes he committed against the United States. This decision to pardon Nixon was a huge controversy during Ford's presidency.

Gerald Ford died in 2006 of coronary artery disease (among other ailments) in his home in the city of Rancho Mirage, Riverside County, California.

Answer: Crawford

Crawford is a city situated in Dawes County, in the north-west of Nebraska. The city was named in 1886 after Captain Emmet Crawford, who worked in Fort Robinson.

Fort Robinson was a major base for the U.S army during the Sioux Wars of 1876 - 1890. In 1876, the Battle of Warbonnet Creek took place near Fort Robinson, where the Native American chief Crazy Horse was captured and killed. A plaque commemorates his death at the base.

The U.S military abandoned Fort Robinson in 1947, and it now serves as a historic building and major attraction of the Fort Robinson State Park.

Answer: Tractors

The Lester F. Larsen Museum is located on the east campus of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and was established in 1980. The museum is dedicated to testing tractors and preserving Nebraska's tractor test law, which has been in use since 1919, in order to have safe tractors built and stop irresponsible tractor companies from building unsafe vehicles.