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Exploring Ohio: A Quiz on the Buckeye State

Test your knowledge about Ohio with this engaging quiz that covers various aspects of the state's economy, education system, geography, and culture.

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1 [83] This ranks Ohio's economy as the seventh-largest of all fifty states and the ________.

2 Ohio's system of ________ is outlined in Article VI of the state constitution, and in Title XXXIII of the Ohio Revised Code.

3 Which of the following is Southeast of Ohio?

4 What is Ohio's nickname?

5 Which of the following is east of Ohio?

6 What is the capital of Ohio?

7 What is the full name of Ohio?

8 What office has Ohio held?

9 They subsisted on agriculture (corn, sunflowers, ________, etc.) supplemented by seasonal hunts.

10 What are people from Ohio known as?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • a significant Fort Ancient archaeological site is located on a sod farm in southwestern Ohio.
  • northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp.
  • the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program was credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County, Ohio in 2002.
  • a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park, named in her honor.
  • The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976.
  • Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines.
  • Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank.
  • the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio.
  • the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries.
  • the former Youngstown and Southern Railway, Ohio's last interurban, was out of service for five years after being illegally sold to a scrap dealer.
  • the land that became Quail Hollow State Park was owned by only two families between 1820 and its sale to Ohio as a park in 1975.
  • there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio.
  • the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio.
  • the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal and which operated only eight unprofitable years.
  • the Society for Savings Building (pictured), a high-rise building in Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio.
  • the Van Wert Bandstand (pictured) is the only extant historic bandstand in western Ohio.
  • Thomas Milton Gatch (pictured), an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree.
  • St. Henry's Catholic Church (pictured) in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio.
  • Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris.
  • Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University.
  • Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor.
  • microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans.
  • Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio.
  • Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad.
  • Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains.
  • Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill.
  • Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie.
  • Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio, USA, is now the location of a thriving second growth forest, but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries.
  • Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio.
  • Independence Dam State Park in Defiance County, Ohio, is named for a dam built for the Miami and Erie Canal and features some of the canal's ruins.
  • Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999.
  • Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete.
  • Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio.
  • actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio.
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