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Ohio Questions:

1. What is Ohio's nickname?




2. What is the capital of Ohio?




3. Who is the Govenor of Ohio?




4. What is the largest city in Ohio?




5. What is the state flower of Ohio?




6. What is the state bird of Ohio?




7. What river forms the southern boundary of Ohio?



8. What city is known as the Rubber City?



9. Which of the Great Lakes borders Ohio to the north?



10. What is the name of Cleveland's football team?



11. What is the name of Cincinnati's football team?




12. What is the name of Cleveland's baseball team?




13. What is the name of Cincinnati's baseball team?



14. What amusement park is in Sandusky, Ohio?



15. What foreign country is Ohio's northern neighbor?



16. What is the largest university in Ohio?



17. During the War of 1812, what Commodore won the Battle of Lake Erie?


18. How many counties are in Ohio?




19. What city is home to the Goodyear Blimp?




20. What state borders Toledo to the north?



21. What is Ohio's geographic area ranking?




22. What is the principle industry of Ohio?




23. What is the principle manufacatured good in Ohio?




24. What city is known as the "Queen City"?



25. What was Ohio's first capital?





26. What is the state motto?




27. In what year did Ohio become a state?




28. What is Ohio's population in the 2000 Census?




29. How many presidents were born in Ohio?



30. What is the state song?





31. Geographically, what is the largest county in Ohio?




32. What was the first permanent settlements in Ohio?



33. What was the first interracial coeducational college in the United States?



34. What city wsa the first to be electrically lighted?




35. Geographically, which is the smallest county in Ohio?




36. What city is known as the "Glass City"?



37. What famous inventor was born in Milan, Ohio?




38. Who were the brothers from Dayton that became the first in flight in 1903?



39. What famous Olympian track star grew up in Cleveland, Ohio?



40. What city is home to the annual Pumpkin Show?




41. What astronaut was the first to orbit the earth and the oldest person in space?



42. The first man to walk on the moon was from Wapakoneta, Ohio. Who was it?



43. In what small Ohio town was Clark Gable born?



44. What juice does Ohio lead the county in producing?




45. What legendary comedian claims Ohio as his home?




46. What Pulitzer prize winning African-American author is from Lorain, Ohio?



47. What female sharp shooter traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?



48. What city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?



49. What city is home to the Football Hall of Fame?




50. Who are Ohio's Senators?




51. What city had the first ambulance service in the country?




52. What river runs through the heart of Columbus?




53. What famous golfer is from Columbus?



54. What city was devastated by a tornado in 1974?




55. What city had America's first traffic light?





The Gold Rush State
The Buckeye State
The Cypress State
The Dogwood State

Cleveland
Cincinnati
Toledo
Columbus

Robert Taft
Moses Cleveland
Michael White
George Voinovich

Cincinnati
Akron
Cleveland
Columbus


Rose
Daisy
Tulip
Carnation


Cardinal
Robin
Crow
Eagle


Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Scioto


Toledo
Akron
Findlay
Springfield

Huron
Superior
Erie
Michigan


Giants
Eagles
Rams
Browns



Bengals
Jets
Vikings
Browns



Yankees
Indians
Braves
Red Sox



Pirates
Cubs
Athletics
Reds


Kings Islands
Geauga Lake
Cedar Point
Six Flags


Iceland
Greenland
Canada
Mexico


Cleveland State
Ohio University
Bowling Green
Ohio State


Oliver Hazard Perry
Robert E. Lee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jefferson Davis


102
88
149
99



Toledo
Canton
Oberlin
Akron


Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan


34th
43rd
24th
10th



Farming
Mining
Manufacturing
Fishing



Transportation equipment
Farm equipment
Communications equipment
Steel cable



Columbus
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Canton



Springfield
Dayton
Marietta
Chillicothe



"In God We Trust"
"With God All Things Are Possible"
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
"Semper Fi"



1800
1825
1803
1910



11,353,140
12,325,476
15,479,258
10,985,873



1
7
8
10



"Beautiful Dreamer"
"Beautiful Ohio"
"Sunset on the River"
"Moonlight Seranade"



Cuyahoga
Franklin
Hamilton
Ashtabula



Marietta
Chillicothe
Zanesville
Steubenville



John Carroll
Marietta
Oberlin
Findlay



Dayton
Cleveland
Columbus
Chillicothe



Lorain
Athens
Belmont
Lake



Canton
Akron
Athens
Toledo



Elias Howe
Eli Whitney
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford



Smith Brothers
Wright Brothers
James Brothers
Smothers Brothers



Jesse Owens
Eric Heiden
Mark Spitz
Bruce Jenner



Miamisburg
Fairborn
Beavercreek
Circleville



Alen Shepard
Gus Grissom
John Glenn
Ed White



John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Gus Grissom
Alan Shepard



Belpre
St. Clairsville
Tiffin
Cadiz



Orange Juice
Apple Juice
Prune Juice
Tomato Juice



Bob Hope
George Burns
Milton Berle
Carl Reiner



Oprah Winfrey
Toni Morrison
Barbara Jordan
Harriet Beecher Stowe



Calamity Jane
Annie Oakley
Dale Evans
Sarah Bernhardt



Columbus
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Canton



Akron
Canton
Springfield
Dayton



Robert Taft and Dennis Kucinich
James Tafficant and Sherrod Brown
Michael DeWine and George Voinovich
Michael White and Dennis Coleman



Cincinnati
Columbus
Toledo
Dayton



Ohio
Scioto
Little Miami
Vermillion



Arnold Palmer
Gary Player
Tiger Woods
Jack Nicklaus



Marietta
Xenia
Hamilton
Canton



Dayton
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Steubenville

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Last Revised: January 18, 2009