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ND Trivia
Test Your North Dakota Knowledge
- In 1804, explorers Lewis and Clark were accompanied on their trek from Dakota Territory to the Pacific Ocean by an Indian woman named _____________________.
- The American president who came to hunt and fish in Dakota Territory as a young man and became a rancher in the Badlands was _____________________________.
- In the Sioux language, the word "Dakota" means_________________________.
- The International Peace Garden is on the border between North Dakota and ______________________________.
- The North Dakota city which is the geographical center of North America is _____________________________.
- The Red River, which divides north Dakota and Minnesota, is unique in that it flows which direction? ____________________.
- The state flower is the _______________ recognized by its five pink petals and found along roadsides and in pastures.
- The two major immigrant groups settling Dakota Territory between 1806 and 1900 were the __________________ and ____________________.
- Following agriculture, North Dakota's second-largest industry is _________________________.
- The state bird is the __________________. Approximately the size of a robin, it sports a yellow breast with a black bib over its mottled brown body. These song birds are found from Wisconsin to Texas and westward to the Pacific.
- The largest city in North Dakota is ________________.
- Under the _________________ Act, a new settler in Dakota Territory was given 160 acres for living on the land and cultivating a portion of it for five years.
- The 1995 Legislative Assembly designated the ________________ as the official American folk dance of North Dakota.
- The _________________ breed may well be those distinct horses descended from Sioux Chief Sitting Bull's war ponies. Some still run wild in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
- On March 2, 1861, President James Buchanan signed the bill creating the Dakota Territory, which originally included the area covered today by both Dakotas as well as ________________ and _________________.
Answers
- Sakakawea
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Friend
- Canada
- Rugby
- North
- Wild Prairie Rose
- Scandinavian and Germans from Russia
- Tourism
- Meadowlark
- Fargo
- Homestead
- Square Dance
- Nokota
- Montana and Wyoming
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