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Exploring Iowa: A Quiz on Geography, Politics, and Film

Test your knowledge about Iowa's geography, political landscape, and its representation in film with this engaging quiz.

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1 What role did David Backus play in the movie Iowa?

2 What role did Michael T. Weiss play in the movie Iowa?

3 How long is Iowa?

4 Iowa is currently listed as a ________ in national politics.

5 [43] Primarily, they were families from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, ________, Kentucky, and Virginia.

6 What is the highest point in Iowa?

7 In the 2006 elections, the Iowa Democrats gained two seats in the Iowa delegation to the ________, and Democrats won a majority in both houses of the Iowa General Assembly.

8 Which of these places is north of Iowa?

9 Which of the following came before Iowa?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin border.
  • Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862.
  • William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress.
  • the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels.
  • the Des Moines Register, "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach-colored paper in 1999.
  • Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska, and an early resident of Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase.
  • Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has rare ice age snails that survive living on rock formations cooled from underground ice.
  • President Benjamin Harrison's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa, Iowa, was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall.
  • Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars.
  • algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
  • Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa.
  • Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge, when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge.
  • Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed.
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