Golden Horseshoe

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Golden Horseshoe

• Review 2

2
Name the border states

• Virginia
• Pennsylvania
• Maryland
• Kentucky
• Ohio

3
Location of new prison

• Mount Olive
• Fayette County

4
Location of old prison

• Moundsville

5
Female country and western singer from Nitro

• Kathy Metta

6
WV is divided into how many congressional
districts?

• three

7
Location of Cranberry Glades

• Pocahontas County

8
WVs premier bridge builder

• Lemuel Chenoweth

9
Natural wonder that resembles scenery of the
western desert

• Seneca Rocks

10
Man made border between WW and Pennsylvania

• Mason-Dixon Line

11
Considers evidence to determine if a person
should be indicted

• Grand Jurry

12
Islands in the Ohio River are owned by which state

• West Virginia

13
From Bridgeport, made a fortune in oil

• Michael Benedum

14
Two prehistoric cultures with remains in WV

• Adena and Hopewell

15
Prevailing winds in WV bring moisture from what
body of water

• Gulf of Mexico

16
The historical Draper Papers are found in what
institution?

• University of Virginia

17
First women WV Supreme Court Judge

• Margaret Workman

18
Established Arthurdale, a federal resettlement
project

• Eleanor Roosevelt

19
Led Indians at the Battle of Point Pleasant

• Chief Cornstalk

20
28th and 30th Governor sentenced to prison for
crimes while in office

• Arch A. Moore Jr.

21
Saved Fort Henry by running for gun powder

• Betty Zane

22
First women to serve as a Federal District Court
Judge

• Elizabeth Hallahan

23
WVU basketball player from Princeton, played in
the NBA at Baktimore, St.Louis, and Seattle

• Rod Thorn

24
First European to see the Kanawha River at St.
Albans

• Gabriel Arthur

25
Senator from the Restored Government, tried to
defeat WV statehood

• John S Carlile

26
Nobel Prize Winner, wrote The Good Earth

• Pearl S. Buck

27
Olympic Gold Medal Winner in gymnastics

• Mary Lou Retton

28
Female labor leader, led 5 major coal strikes

• Mary Mother Jones

29
Designer of the State Capitol

• Cass Gilbert

30
US Senator, Governor, President of WV Wesleyan
College

• John D. Rockefeller IV

31
Responsible for the first newspaper at
Shepherdstown

• Nathaniel Willis

32
Sent to expand trade with Indians, first to see
New River, killed by Indians

• James Needham

33
Land company explorer, named the Cumberland Gap

• Thomas Walker

34
Geologist, made it possible to predict where oil
and gas could be found

• Israel White

35
14th Governor, ended coal strike, reduced jail
terms

• Governor Hatfield

36
WVU basketball player Zeke from Cabin Creek

• Jerry West

37
US Senator, Democratic Whip, Majority Leader

• Robert C. Byrd

38
Made decision that money should be redistributed
to poorer counties for equal education

• Judge Arthur Recht

39
Wrote about early settlement, Notes on
Settlement

• Joseph Doddridge

40
WVs Greatest Educator

• Booker T. Washington

41
Offered o plan for a system of district schools

• Henry Ruffner

42
Novelist, short story writer, wrote about the
lives of WV mountain people, The Night of the
Hunter

• Davis Grubb

43
Marshall basketball player, NBA Philadelphia 76ers

• Hal Greer

44
English explorers, kept journal, found the MANI
tree

• Batts and Fallam

45
Writer from Fairmont, wrote A Separate Peace

• John Knowles

46
She wrote poems about West Virginia

• Louise McNeill

47
Writer, playwright, singer of folk music

• Billy Ed Wheller

48
Abolitionist, led attack on arsenal at Harpers
Ferry

• John Brown

49
The Great Wildcatter took risk in sinking
wells, made fortune in gas and oil

• Michael Benedum

50
Steel Driving Man

• John Henry

51
Famous Feud

• Hatfield and McCoy