Think you know your stuff about Iowa?

Think you're an Iowa trivia whiz? Give these 10 questions from Iowa trivia champ Jessica Rundlett ’07 a try.

Questions

  • Where is Iowa’s only National Cemetery?
  • In what hilly Iowa city will you find the Fenelon Place Elevator?
  • What famous Civil War General (and friend of President Abraham Lincoln) lived in Council Bluffs?
  • Two First Ladies of the United States were born in Iowa. Name them.
  • The oldest functioning county courthouse in Iowa was built in 1843. Where is it?
  • Le Mars, Iowa, is known as the ___ _____ Capital of the World.
  • During what war were there Prisoner of War Camps in Iowa?
  • Where are two of the largest freestanding grain bins in the world?
  • What college was first in the nation to promote a woman to a full professorship with the same salary as her male colleagues?
  • NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson was the first woman to command the International Space Station and holds the record for most time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut. What is her hometown?
Harriette Cooke
Harriette J. Cooke was the nation's first female professor to receive the same salary as a male at that rank. Cooke, a professor of German and history, joined the Cornell College faculty in 1857.

Answers

  • Keokuk
  • Dubuque
  • General Grenville M. Dodge
  • Lou Henry Hoover (Waterloo) and Mamie Eisenhower (Boone)
  • Keosauqua
  • Ice Cream
  • World War II (There were camps at Algona and Clarinda.)
  • Atlantic
  • Cornell College (Harriette Cooke)
  • Beaconsfield