Missouri Trivia

We're at the Gateway to the West. My friends got your covered wagons and supplies. Ready. Hey Gang! This is episode. 187 of the dorky geeky nerdy trivia podcast. I'm your host Brian Rollins and this week. We've got Missouri trivia for you. 30 questions about the state's history, famous people, and some geography. If you're new to the show, Show Welcome, we've got rules and scorecards at dorky geeky nerdy.com. I want to give a shout-out to listener. Ghost thief and his partner, both of them pass their time, in their ambulance playing along with the show. Thanks to you both for keeping folks safe and a shout out to all those First Responders that are listening. Thank you for your service. Let me know how you listen to the show. At dorky nerd e.com or leave a comment on social media. Or YouTube that covers the intro. So let's dive into the questions with the dorky round. Number one, what mail delivery system ran from Missouri to California in the 1860s? The Pony Express it, lasted a little over a year and was shut down. When the telegraph replaced it. Number two, the largest beer producing plant in the u.s. is located in Missouri who owns it. Anheuser-Busch Brewing. Number three. What? Singer-songwriter from Kennett Missouri had hits titled. All I want to do if it makes you happy and the title song from 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. Sheryl Crow. Number four. What 630 foot Monument stands in st. Louis Missouri. The Gateway Arch. Number 5. What river forms? The vast majority of Missouri's eastern border. The Mississippi River. Number 6. What is the postal abbreviation for Missouri? M0. Number 7. What actor born in Afton Missouri. Rose to National Fame as the patriarch in the TV series Roseanne. John Goodman. Number 8. What musician was known as the father of rock and roll and had hits like Roll Over, Beethoven and Johnny, Be Good. Chuck Berry. Number 9, how many major league baseball teams, call Missouri home? To the Kansas City, Royals in the st. Louis Cardinals. Number 10. What actor? Who passed away in 2021 was president of the Screen? Actors, Guild and played. Lou Grant in both a comedy and a drama series Ed Asner. The geeky round. Number one? What writer born in Florida? Missouri. Got his pen name from the depth measurement used by river boats. Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain. Number 2, born in Nevada. Missouri who wrote the screenplay and made his directorial debut with the 1941 film. The Maltese Falcon John Huston. Number three. Who is the only u.s. president from Missouri? Harry S Truman. Number four. What Missouri Town was the epicenter of multiple, waves of riots and unrest. Beginning in 2014, Ferguson Missouri. Number 5, what actor and Missourian received his first Academy Award nomination for Hotel Rwanda? Don Cheadle. Number six, the little tail on Missouri's, Southeastern Corner cuts a notch out of What other state. Arkansas. Number 7. What astronomer born in Marshfield. Missouri. Has a Space Telescope named after him. And was one of the first people to observe that the Universe was expanding. Edwin Hubble. Number 8. What animator discovered? His love of Art and drawing while growing up on a farm. In Marceline, Missouri, in the early 20th century Walt Disney. Number nine, founded and based in Missouri. What agrochemical company. Brought us Roundup. DDT and Agent Orange. Monsanto. Number 10, what is the largest city in Missouri? Kansas City. The nerdy round number one. What moved from Texas County? Missouri? To Wright County. Missouri in 2020. The population center of the u.s., it's the mean center of the United States population and is updated every senses. Number 2 what actress? And Dancer famously could do everything, Fred. Astaire could. But backwards and in heels Ginger Rogers from Independence, Missouri. Number three, what city was built at the Confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. St. Louis Number four. What is the capital of Missouri? Jefferson City. Number 5, what three states border, Missouri to the West. Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma. Number six. What Aviation first occurred on March, first 1912 above and at Jefferson Barracks. The first parachute jump from a plane. Number 7, how many states border Missouri? Eight, it's tied with one other state for the most shared borders. Number 8. What store with over 5,600 locations today began in Springfield, Missouri. In December 1957. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Number 9 in 18-49 4,000. People were killed in St. Louis from what disease? Cholera. Number 10 set in Missouri. What 1976 Western was directed by and stars, Clint Eastwood as the title character. The Outlaw Josey Wales. And that's it for Missouri. Here are a few bonus facts about the state. The University of Missouri is the first college in the world to offer a degree in journalism. The waffle cone was born in 1904 at the st. Louis World's Fair, an ice cream. Vendor ran out of cups and a nearby waffle vendor helped him out by Rolling his products into cones. It was a massive hit wild. It's common for a state's capital, and not be the state's, largest city. Jefferson City is not even in the top 10 cities in Missouri. It's the 16th largest city in the state with only thousand people in Missouri is the 24th state. In the Union in population, ranks, 18 and in size, it ranks 21st, I've only been to Missouri for a few hours on layovers, in Kansas City. But I'm eager to try out some barbecue and see the Gateway Arch, some point. What am I must see and must do event. When I get to Missouri, let me know. At dorky nerd e.com will be back next week. With another episode. Here's a clue, the purchase for the land. That makes up what state was once known as Seward's folly. It turned out Seward meet a really good purchase. I'll see you back here next Wednesday. This has been episode 187 the dorky geeky nerdy trivia podcast. 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