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1. The city of Wichita lies at the junction of which rivers?
a) Little Horn and Big Horn
b) Big Arkansas and Little Arkansas
c) Lesser Arkansas and Greater Arkansas

2. Wichita was founded along the famous cattle trail, near Jesse Chisholm’s trading post, in which year?
a) 1868
b) 1878
c) 1858

3. The name of the city comes from?
a) The now extinct breed of cattle that passed through the trading routes at the heart of the newly founded trading city.
b) The Indian tribes who were the original inhabitants of the area.
c) The last name of one of the founding families that signed the original charter for the city.

4. At the end of World War II, the factories in Wichita were producing, on average, how many aircraft?
a) More than four a week
b) More than one a day
c) More than four a day

5. Which actress is a native of the city?
a) Kirstie Alley
b) Kirsten Dunst
c) Kate Hudson

6. Just North of Wichita, along a road through Valley Center, lies a haunted bridge on which cars stall, apparitions of a ghostly woman are seen and the distant cries of her baby can be heard. The bridge is called?
a) Wailing Bridge
b) Theodore’s bridge
c) Theorosa’s bridge

7. If you fly from Wichita to any other destination in the continental US, it will take...
a) Five hours or less
b) Seven hours or less
c) Nine hours or less

8. Chance Rides Manufacturing Inc. is the largest producer in America of what?
a) Trams
b) Amusement rides
c) Unicycles

AND DID YOU KNOW…

In the ’20s and ’30s, a regular Saturday night fire dive was watched by thousands of residents. Local daredevils, such as Harold “Buddy” Siegel and Al Pinaire, would have a fuel-soaked rag lit around their necks before diving from the Murdock Street Bridge into the water 70 feet below.

Wichita is deservedly nicknamed the “Air Capital of the World.” By 1929, the city had 11 airports and 16 factories producing one quarter of all the aircraft built in the US. It is now home to five major aircraft manufacturers.

America’s first branch of Pizza Hut was established in the city in 1958 when entrepreneurial brothers Frank and Dan Carney borrowed $600 from their mom to start up the business. The original “Hut” is still there on Wichita State University campus.

Answers: 1b, 2a, 3b, 4c, 5a, 6c, 7a, 8b

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