Quiz: How Well Do You Know Iowa history?

View of Jefferson City, Iowa, United States of America, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume LV, October 9, 1869.

By Ellie Konfrst

November 15, 2022

</p> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>What year did Iowa become a state?</h3> <ul> <li>1846</li> <li>1833</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1861</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>The world’s first electronic digital computer was built at which Iowa college in the 1930s?</h3> <ul> <li>Iowa State University</li> <li>University of Iowa</li> <li>University of Northern Iowa</li> <li>Grinnell College</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>Who was the first governor of Iowa?</h3> <ul> <li>Samuel J. Kirkwood</li> <li>James Clarke</li> <li>Stephen P. Hempstead</li> <li>Ansel Briggs</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>Which rock and roll musician did NOT tragically lose their life in a plane crash over Cerro Gordo County?</h3> <ul> <li>Waylon Jennings</li> <li>“The Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson</li> <li>Buddy Holly</li> <li>Ritchie Valens</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>True or False:</h3> <p><p>The United States gained control over the land that is now Iowa as part of the Louisiana Purchase.</p></p> <ul> <li>True</li> <li>False</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>What year was the first woman elected to the Iowa legislature?</h3> <ul> <li>1928</li> <li>1934</li> <li>1946</li> <li>1950</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>What Iowa town was Herbert Hoover, the only US president from Iowa, born in?</h3> <ul> <li>West Branch</li> <li>West Liberty</li> <li>Iowa City</li> <li>Tiffin</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>True or False:</h3> <p><p>An Iowan was aboard Apollo 7, the first crewed flight in NASA’s Apollo program.</p></p> <ul> <li>True</li> <li>False</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>Which famous suffragette was raised in Iowa?</h3> <ul> <li>Carrie Chapman Catt</li> <li>Susan B. Anthony</li> <li>Elizabeth Cady Stanton</li> <li>Alice Paul</li> </ul> </section> <p> </p> <p>