It’s time to see how you did on the trivia questions posted Friday. These were some tough questions, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t know many — just follow the links, read up on some interesting Virginians, and then stump your friends with what you learned!<\/p>\n
1. What Virginian became chief of the Crow Indians? It’s time to see how you did on the trivia questions posted Friday. These were some tough questions, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t know many — just follow the links, read up on some interesting Virginians, and then stump your friends with what you learned! 1. What Virginian became chief of the Crow … Continue reading Trivia Answers for “Away, I’m Bound Away” Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[66,67],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-photos","category-trivia","tag-friday-photos","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJames Pierson Beckwourth<\/a>
\n2. What Virginian became president of a foreign republic?
\nSamuel Houston<\/a>
\n3. What Virginian became famous as “The Missouri Artist”?
\nGeorge Caleb Bingham<\/a>
\n4. What Virginian became the first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate?
\nBlanche Kelso Bruce<\/a>
\n5. What Virginia writer helped promote the Westward Migration?
\nJessie Benton Fremont<\/a>
\n6. What Virginia slave mailed himself to freedom?
\nHenry Brown<\/a>
\n7. What Virginian became the most famous fugitive slave in US history?
\nAnthony Burns<\/a>
\n8. What Virginian “discovered” the Great Salt Lake?
\nJames Bridger<\/a>
\n9. What Virginian became an abolitionist governor of Illinois?
\nEdward Coles<\/a>
\n10. What Virginian helped bring order to Central City, Colorado?
\nClara Brown<\/a>
\n11. What Virginian was instrumental in establishing the Pony Express?
\nBenjamin Franklin Ficklin<\/a>
\n12. What Virginian became the founder of Texas?
\nStephen Fuller Austin<\/a>
\n13. Who was the first African American to serve in the State Senate?
\nGeorge Teamoh<\/a>
\n14. What Virginian served as President for a month?
\nWilliam Henry Harrison<\/a>
\n15. What Virginian explored Yellowstone River?
\nJohn Coulter<\/a>
\n16. What Virginian was saved by a white bean?
\nWilliam Alexander Anderson “Bigfoot” Wallace<\/a> during the Black Bean Incident<\/a>
\n17. What Virginian became a confidante to a famous First Lady?
\nElizabeth Keckley<\/a>
\n18. What Virginian made the first map of Tennessee?
\nDaniel Smith<\/a>
\n19. What Virginian helped Kentucky achieve statehood?
\nJohn Brown<\/a>
\n20. What Virginia slave’s lawsuit led to a famous Supreme Court case?
\nDred Scott<\/a>
\n21. What Virginian was probably the first African-American elected to public office in the United States?
\nJohn Mercer Langston<\/a>, elected town clerk of Brownhelm in 1855<\/a>
\n22. What Virginian established Centralia, Washington?
\nGeorge Washington<\/a>
\n23. What Virginian taught the first kindergarten in Detroit?
\nFannie Moore Richards<\/a>
\n24. What Virginian met with John Brown to encourage a slave uprising in the South?
\nGeorge DeBaptiste<\/a>, who met with John Brown and Frederick Douglass<\/a>
\n25. What Virginian won the Northwest during the American Revolution?
\nGeorge Rogers Clark<\/a>
\n26. What Virginian killed himself three years after his famous expedition?
\nMeriwether Lewis<\/a> (although some scholars believe he was murdered)
\n27. What Virginian explored the Louisiana Territory?
\nWilliam Clark<\/a> and the aforementioned Meriwether Lewis
\n28. What Virginian helped carry Methodism to western Virginia?
\nElizabeth Henry Campbell Russell<\/a>
\n29. What Virginian was called the “Iron Cutter” by the Sioux Indians?
\nLawrence Taliaferro<\/a>, whose last name is derived from “iron cutter” in Italian<\/a>.
\n30. What Virginian revolutionized American agriculture?
\nCyrus Hall McCormick<\/a>
\n31. What Virginian helped found the Wilberforce Community in Canada?
\nAustin Steward<\/a>
\n32. What Virginian was known as the “Great Compromiser”?
\nHenry Clay<\/a>
\n33. What Virginian was given a flag made by Barbara Fritchie?
\nJesse Lee Reno<\/a>
\n34. What Virginian ended the bleeding in “Bleeding Kansas”?
\nJames William Denver<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"