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Quiz: Pennysylvania Facts

Instructions:  Type the correct letter to answer the questions about Pennsylvania  If you type a space or a period after your answer, it will be marked wrong even if it is right.  Use the tab key to move from box to box.

1.   Which of the following is not true?
  1. Pennsylvania was the first of the original thirteen colonies.
  2. Pennsylvania is the home of the first American flag.
  3. Pennsylvania is the home of the first daily newspaper.
  4. Pennsylvania is the home of the first oil well.
  5. Pennsylvania is the home of the first public zoo.
(1)

2.   Which of the following is not true?  Pennsylvania was called The Keystone State because:
  1. It was in the center of the first thirteen colonies.
  2. It had the largest city.
  3. The capital, Philadelphia, was in Pennsylvania.
  4. It was the biggest producer of Ketchup.
  (2)

3.   Which of the following documents was not created in Pennsylvania?
  1. The United States Constitution
  2. The Emancipation Proclamation
  3. The Declaration of Independence
  4. The Articles of Confederation
    (3)

4.   Religious tolerance was established in Pennsylvania by:
  1. The Amish
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. William Penn
  4. The Puritans
    (4)

5.   The Amish are of:
  1. Dutch ancestry
  2. German ancestry
  3. English ancestry
    (5)

6.   William Penn was:
  1. a German immigrant
  2. an Amishman
  3. a Quaker
  4. a Dutch immigrant
(6)

7.   Which of the following "foods" did not originate in Pennsylvania?
  1. root beer
  2. the hot dog
  3. Hershey's Kisses
  4. Ketchup
    (7)

8.   What percentage of Pennsylvania's population is of German ancestry?
  1. 10%
  2. 20%
  3. 25%
  4. 30%
    (8)

9.   Pittsburgh is built at the confluence of which three mighty rivers?
  1. the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Monongahela
  2. the Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela
  3. the Allegheny, the Mississippi, and the Monongahela
  4. the Allegheny, the Mississippi, and the Ohio
    (9)

10.   Pennsylvania produces most of the nation's coal.
  1. true
  2. false
     (10)

11.   Which one is not true?  The Centralia mine fire:
  1. has been burning for more than 50 years.
  2. started when garbage and trash caught on fire
    and ignited the vein of coal at the bottom of a pit.
  3. was extinguished 40 years after it started.
  4. caused the evacuation of the town.
  (11)

12.   The Centralia mine fire became famous when:
  1. deadly gases caused the evacuation of the town.
  2. a boy dropped into a hole when the ground collapsed beneath him.
  3. deadly gases from the mine fire reached Pittsburgh.
  4. a boy dropped through the ground and was killed.
  (12)

13.   Andrew Carnegie became one of the richest men in the world from:
  1. marketing Ketchup.
  2. producing coal.
  3. making steel.
  4. making ammunition.
  (13)

14.   Which was not a cause of the downturn of the steel industry?
  1. Pennsylvania ran out of raw material.
  2. overseas competition
  3. labor troubles
  4. unwillingness to modernize
(14)

15.   Mushrooms are grown in:
  1. Penn's Woods.
  2. abandoned coal mines.
  3. abandoned limestone mines.
  4. Lancaster Country.
(15)

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