K is for Kansas
Collecting Kansas
trivia has always been a hobby of mine. Today,
I’d like to share some of it with you.
Q. What 1964 Kansas
State University
A. Margaret Thompson
Q. What Kansas
football legend was from Speed, Kansas ?
A. Gale Sayers
Q. Who flew a Kansas
made aircraft in breaking five world records for business jets?
A. Neil Armstrong
Q. What was Jim Ryun’s fastest running time for the mile?
A. 3:51.1 on July
17, 1966
Q. Where was the first indoor bathtub installed in Kansas ?
A. Ames Hotel, Wamego (1870)
Q. Who founded Pizza Hut?
A. Frank & Dan Carney, Wichita
Q. Who was the first Christian martyr in the United
States ?
A. Father Juan de Padilla
Q. What president signed the bill to make Kansas
an official territory?
A. President Franklin Pierce
Q. Which trail is sometimes called “The World’s most
historical highway?
A. Santa Fe Trail
Q. Name the famous trail which extended for 2000 miles over
half the continent and is referred to as “the second highway” through Kansas ?
A. Oregon Trail
Q. Why did Kansans observe “Meatless Tuesdays” and “Wheatless
Wednesdays” during World War I?
A. to conserve and economize
Q. The last Indian raid in Kansas
was made in what year?
A. 1878
Q. The original term “Jayhawk”
referred to what?
A. an antislavery person
Q. Who was the retired farmer and disabled Civil War veteran
who created the “Garden of Eden”?
A. Samuel Perry Dinsmore
Q. Where is the “Garden of Eden” located?
A. Lucas ,
Kansas
Trivia found in the book Kansas
Trivia, Kurt Parsons, Editor, KDS Publications, 1984, Wichita ,
Ks.
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