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Exploring Illinois: A Quiz on Geography, Culture, and Facts

Test your knowledge about Illinois with this engaging quiz covering geography, languages, and unique facts about the state!

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1 Which of the following languages is spoken in Illinois?

2 Which of the following is Southwest of Illinois?

3 Which of the following places is northeast of Illinois?

4 Which of the following titles did Illinois have?

5 Which of the following places is northwest of Illinois?

6 Who played centre in the Illinois?

7 What timezone is Illinois in?

8 How many metres above sea level is the lowest point in Illinois?

9 How long is Illinois?

10 What state is Illinois associated with?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
  • the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois.
  • the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois.
  • the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena.
  • the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois.
  • the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, from 1696 to 1700.
  • the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago, Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters.
  • there are fords at Illinois' White Pines Forest State Park (crossing pictured) allowing visitors to drive through the stream.
  • the original owner of Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket (pictured) in Willowbrook, Illinois, would hire local youths to ice skate on the roof during winter.
  • the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower.
  • the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan.
  • the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968.
  • the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s.
  • Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War.
  • Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures.
  • algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
  • Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village.
  • Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters.
  • David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling.
  • Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois.
  • after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home.
  • WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois, USA.
  • Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College.
  • Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year.
  • bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois.
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