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Teacher: Mr. Cap                  Oklahoma

•  How may square miles, counties, and people are there in Oklahoma ?

•  Oklahoma ranks _______________ in the 48 contiguous U.S.

•  List 5 unusually named towns in Oklahoma .

•  Name a sports hero and a country music star from Oklahoma .

•  Name a pine covered mountain range in Oklahoma .

•  What are three geological windows into America 's past?

•  What is the highest point in the state?

•  How much of Oklahoma is covered by forest?

•  Why was the red bud chosen as the state tree?

•  Where is the largest stretch of “tall grass” left in the New World ? What percent is left today?

•  What does “virgin earth” mean?

•  What makes Oklahoma as a people?

•  Oklahoma 's U.S. history began after the ___________________________________________________.

•  Which tribe's name means “red people” or Oklahoma ?

•  Each tribe has its own ____________________________.

•  What is said about the Civil War in Oklahoma ?

•  In what year was the Battle of Honey Springs?

•  What was the name given to black soldiers during the Civil War?

•  The North defeated the South, an army _____________ its size.

•  The cattle drives moved cattle north to railheads in _________________________________________.

•  What three things did each cowboy have?

•  Rodeo began as a form of _________________________.

•  Who invented bulldogging?

•  What was the name of the cowboy ranch near Ponca City ?

•  Where is the mythical adventure of the wild west enshrined?

•  In which two museums does Oklahoma have the world's richest tour of the west?

•  What was the name of the 1924 Kentucky Derby winner?

•  How many land runs opened the territory to settlement?

•  Oklahoma was America 's _________________________ frontier.

•  What ignited Oklahoma 's oil boom?

•  Which Indian tribe owned some of Oklahoma 's richest land?

•  Which city was anointed as the “oil capital of the world”?

•  Name the giants of the oil industry.

•  Oklahoma was a birthplace of what form of music?

•  Who was known as the first singing cowboy? Who discovered him? Which station did he debut on?

•  Who invented western swing? Western swing was sometimes known as _________________________.

•  Who was the Cherokee Kid?

•  Who was killed with Will Rogers?

•  Who were Kate Barnard, John L. Peters, and Alice Mary Robertson?

•  Who was Shannon Lucid?

•  At which Olympics did Jim Thorpe win gold?

•  Where was the first American scout troop founded and when?

•  Who was the winningest cowboy in history?

•  Name 7 baseball greats from Oklahoma .

•  Name 7 football greats from Oklahoma .

•  Name 5 of the great dancers who were Native Americans.

•  Who founded the first permanent white settlement in Oklahoma ?

•  Name cowbay actors who came from Oklahoma .

•  Name 4 Oklahomans who have been Miss America .

•  Who invented the shopping cart, parking meter, Wallmart?

•  Who was seen as the greatest figure in American folksong?