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Where is the world's largest open-air aviary with exotic birds from all over the world? Answer
Where is the world's 2nd largest collection of ancient elephant fossils located? Answer
Where is the world's largest porch swing located and how many adults can sit in it at one time? Answer
Where is the only church with pews that switch from Catholic services at one end and Protestant services at the other end located? Answer
Where is the world's largest hand-planted forest located? Answer
Where is the world's only museum dedicated to Fur Trading located? Answer
What was the first fort constructed west of the Missouri River ? Answer
The World's largest railroad classification complex is located where? Answer
Who was the most highly paid executive woman and her hometown? Answer
World-famous architect, Edward Durrell Stone, designed what museum in Nebraska ? Answer
What is the structure constructed out of old cars called located near Alliance ? Answer
One of the only museums dedicated to one line of automobiles is in Nebraska , what is its name? Answer
Which state park was a World War II German P.O.W. camp? Answer
The world's largest Kolache Festival is located where? Answer
The only rodeo grounds listed on the National Register of Historical sites is located where? Answer
What town along I-80 is located on the 100th Meridian , where the humid east meets the arid west? Answer
Where was the person that invented the shock absorber from? Answer
What is the name of Nebraska 's one-house legislature, the only one of its kind in theUnited States? Answer
What two political history making events happened in 1986 in Nebraska ? Answer
What was the total cost to construct the Nebraska Capitol building? Answer
What railroad linked the east and west coasts with the Golden Spike and has its headquarters in Nebraska ? Answer
Who started the first rodeo in the nation and in what Nebraska city? Answer
Omaha has been the home of the College World Series since what year? Answer
Name four communities in Nebraska that are also Indian tribes. Answer
How did Ak-Sar-Ben race track in Omaha gets its name? Answer
What are the 5 army forts located in Nebraska that are open to the public? Answer
What Native American chief was killed at Fort Robinson ? Answer
Where did the largest train robbery of the Union Pacific railroad occur? Answer
What was the starting point for the Black Hills Gold Rush? Answer
Where was the original Fort Kearny located? Answer
Where are the world's largest hamburgers made? Answer
What is Nebraska 's State Bird? State Flower? State Tree? State Gem? Answer
When was Nebraska made a state? Answer
What army fort was built to protect the Pawnee from the Sioux? Answer
Where was the 911 emergency communications developed and first used? Answer
Where did Charles Lindberg learn to fly? Answer
What is Nebraska 's State Insect? State Fossil? State Song? Answer
Where in Nebraska can you find an Indian Headdress cast in stone? Answer
What do the towns of Hebron and Gilead have in common with the biblical towns of the same names? Answer
Which Nebraska town was once known as Gomorrah of the Plains? Answer
What town was nicknamed Church City because of the number of churches in the town? Answer
What was one of the original names for the Cornhuskers? Answer
What is the largest ethnic group in Nebraska? Answer
How many states border Nebraska and what are they? Answer
What are the 2 counties in Nebraska named after animals? Answer
What city was nicknamed the Alfalfa Capitol? Answer
What community can you find a demonstration of the Strobe Light and why? Answer
What Nebraska food item did the Germans from Russia bring to the state? Answer
From what city did Morton Salt come? Answer
Where is one of the busiest Interstate McDonald's located in the country? Answer
Who's mother gave Henry Fonda acting lessons at the Omaha Community Playhouse? Answer
What Omaha native was nicknamed The Kansas Comet? Answer
What Nebraska native was the Democratic nominee for President three times? Answer
What former President was born in Nebraska? Answer
Who founded Boys Town? Answer
What Baseball Hall of Fame player is from St. Paul, Nebraska? Answer
What Omaha native had a brief stint with the Harlem Globetrotters? Answer
Who is the nation's first Native American woman doctor? Answer
Who was the founder of Arbor Day and served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland? Answer
Who is the Pulitzer Prize winning author from Nebraska? Answer
What McDonald's food product was created at the University of Nebraska? Answer
What soft drink was invented in Nebraska? Answer
What city in Nebraska is located exactly between Boston and San Francisco? Answer
What number state was Nebraska in joining the nation? Answer
What famous WWI general was an instructor at UNL? Answer
Who claimed the nation's first homestead and where was it claimed? Answer
What modern tool found in most tool boxes today was invented and manufactured in Nebraska? Answer
Where is the world's' largest American Legion post located? Answer
What town has been the subject of more books than any other town in literature? Answer
Thurl Ravenscroft from Norfolk has been the voice of what cartoon character for over 35 years? Answer
From what city were the Hall brothers who started Hallmark cards? Answer
What site along the Oregon trail was mentioned in most of the pioneer diaries? Answer
Where do the two major highways that run border to border meet? Answer
What county is the home of the most intercontinental ballistic missiles located? Answer
What is Nebraska's oldest State Park? Answer
What Junior High School was the first in the nation? Answer
Where is the longest straight main street in the nation? Answer
What is the only "dry" county in Nebraska? Answer
What are the names etched around the base of the Capitol Building? Answer
Why are there 48 steps leading up to the 2nd floor of the Capitol? Answer
Name the largest furniture store in the nation and the person who founded it. Answer
Name the largest jewelry store in the nation and its location. Answer
Where is the National Liar's Hall of Fame located? Answer
Nebraska is known for its green agricultural circles. What causes them? Answer
What county in Nebraska is larger than the state of Connecticut? Answer
Name four historical trails that crossed Nebraska. Answer
Where is the largest painted shamrock located? Answer
Why does the Sower on top of the Capitol face the northwest? Answer
Approximately how many buffalo were killed by Buffalo Bill Cody in 1867? Answer
According to pioneers, what is known as a mile wide and a foot deep? Answer
In what community does the North and South Platte Rivers meet? Answer
What county allegedly has more millionaires proportionally to its population than any other in the nation? Answer
What bar/restaurant boasts a 1,300 pound polar bear? Answer
What is Fred Austerlitz's more famous name and where was he born? Answer
What Oscar winning actor was born in Omaha? Answer
What actress (from Hastings) won an Academy Award for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Answer
What silent screen comedian from Nebraska is regarded as the third genius of the silent era after Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton? Answer
Who was Calvin Coolidge's vice president? Answer
What influential U.S. Senator was the founder of Nebraska's one-house Unicameral? Answer
What famous civil rights leader was from Omaha? Answer
What Nebraska community was declared by Congress to be a national Czech Capitol? Answer
Where is the world's largest concentration of Sandhill cranes? Answer
Who was the first modern-day serial killer and where is he buried? Answer
How long did the Pony express operate? Answer
What was the charge to send a letter via the Pony Express? Answer
What was the average time it took a letter to get from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California on the Pony Express? Answer
What put the Pony Express out of business in 1861? Answer
What was the first item Cabela's sold through the mail? Answer
Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert."
State Motto: Equality before the law
Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich.
Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont.
Nebraska has the U.S.'s largest aquifer (underground lake/water supply), the Ogallala aquifer.
Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state.
Nebraska was the first state to complete its segment of the nation's mainline interstate system, a 455 mile stretch of four lane highway.
Nebraska has more underground water reserves than any other state in the continental U.S.
Weeping Water is the nation's largest limestone deposit and producer.
Mutual of Omaha Corporate headquarters is a public building built with 7 floors underground
Don't forget Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett (LHS '54)