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.

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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>