Question: What parts of Oklahoma rarely see below-zero temperatures?
Answer: south-central and southeastern

Question: What is the average snowfall in southern Oklahoma?
Answer: less than 4 inches

Question: What is the average snowfall in Oklahoma near the Colorado border?
Answer: over 20 inches

Question: Where is the Storm Prediction Center located?
Answer: Norman

Question: What was Oklahoma's record high temperature?
Answer: 120 °F

Question: Ancestors of which tribes lived in Oklahoma?
Answer: Wichita and Caddo

Question: What was Spiro, Oklahoma named for?
Answer: Spiro Mounds

Question: When did Spiro Mounds flourish?
Answer: between AD 850 and 1450

Question: What Spanish explorer visited Oklahoma in 1541?
Answer: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

Question: When did France sell Oklahoma's land to the US?
Answer: 1803

Question: What was the "Oil Capital of the World"?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: What type of investments were important in early Oklahoma?
Answer: oil

Question: Who was the "Father of Route 66"?
Answer: Cyrus Avery

Question: Where was the Highway 66 Association based?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: When did Route 66 begin?
Answer: 1927

Question: When did the Dust Bowl begin?
Answer: 1930s

Question: What mistake led to the Dust Bowl?
Answer: poor farming practices

Question: What states were affected by the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and northwestern Oklahoma

Question: How many farmers had to relocate because of the Dust Bowl?
Answer: thousands

Question: How much did Oklahoma's population decline from 1930 to 1950?
Answer: 6.9 percent

Question: When was the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Answer: April 19, 1995

Question: Who committed the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Answer: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

Question: How many people died in the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Answer: 168

Question: How many children died in the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Answer: 19

Question: When was McVeigh executed?
Answer: June 11, 2001

Question: When did Oklahoma declare an official language?
Answer: 2010

Question: How many Oklahomans speak only English at home, as of 2000?
Answer: 2,977,187

Question: What percent of Oklahomans speak only English at home, as of 2000?
Answer: 92.6%

Question: What is the second-most-prevalent language in Oklahoma?
Answer: Spanish

Question: What is the third-most-prevalent language in Oklahoma?
Answer: Cherokee

Question: What is Oklahoma's fourth most popular language?
Answer: German

Question: How many Oklahomans speak German?
Answer: 13,444

Question: How many Native American languages are used in Oklahoma?
Answer: more than 25

Question: What is Oklahoma's fifth most popular language?
Answer: Vietnamese

Question: How many Oklahomans speak Vietnamese?
Answer: 11,330

Question: What is the conservative Evangelical Christian region called?
Answer: the "Bible Belt"

Question: What parts of the US are covered by the 'Bible Belt'?
Answer: southern and eastern

Question: What political party has the most members in Oklahoma?
Answer: Democratic

Question: What is Oklahoma's 2nd-largest city?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: How much of Oklahoma's population is Christian?
Answer: 80 percent

Question: How does Oklahoma rank among US states for producing natural gas?
Answer: third

Question: How does Oklahoma rank among US states for agriculture?
Answer: 27th

Question: How does Oklahoma rank among US states for producing wheat?
Answer: 5th

Question: How many Fortune 500 companies are based in Oklahoma?
Answer: Four

Question: How many Fortune 1000 companies are based in Oklahoma?
Answer: six

Question: What is Oklahoma's rank among states producing crude oil?
Answer: fifth

Question: What is Oklahoma's rank among states by active drilling rigs?
Answer: second

Question: How does Oklahoma's crude oil reserves rank among states?
Answer: fifth

Question: How much of Oklahoma's electricity comes from non-renewable sources?
Answer: 94 percent

Question: How much of Oklahoma's electricity comes from coal?
Answer: 25 percent

Question: Which largest private oil companies are based in Oklahoma City?
Answer: Devon Energy Corporation, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, and SandRidge Energy Corporation

Question: What industry are all of the Oklahoma-based Fortune 500 companies in?
Answer: energy

Question: What is the largest company in Oklahoma?
Answer: ONEOK

Question: What is the 2nd-largest company in Oklahoma?
Answer: Williams Companies

Question: Where is ONEOK based?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: How many famous Native American ballerinas came from Oklahoma?
Answer: five

Question: What are Oklahoma's Native American ballerinas called?
Answer: the Five Moons

Question: What ballerina started the Oklahoma City Ballet?
Answer: Yvonne Chouteau

Question: When did the University of Oklahoma's dance program begin?
Answer: 1962

Question: Which sisters were in the Five Moons?
Answer: Marjorie and Maria Tallchief

Question: Where is 'Discoveryland!'?
Answer: Sand Springs

Question: Who starred in the Broadway production of 'Oklahoma!'?
Answer: Ridge Bond

Question: Where is Ridge Bond from?
Answer: McAlester, Oklahoma

Question: Who did Ridge Bond play?
Answer: Curly McClain

Question: How many performances of Oklahoma! was Ridge Bond in?
Answer: more than 2,600

Question: What major theater groups are in Oklahoma City?
Answer: Oklahoma City Theatre Company, Carpenter Square Theatre, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, and CityRep

Question: What is the oldest community theater group west of the Mississippi River?
Answer: Theatre Tulsa

Question: Where is the American Theatre Company based?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: What is the oldest resident professional theater company in Oklahoma?
Answer: American Theatre Company

Question: Where is Heller Theatre?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: How many museums are in Oklahoma?
Answer: more than 300

Question: How does Oklahoma's per-capita arts spending rank?
Answer: 17th

Question: Where is the Philbrook Museum?
Answer: Tulsa

Question: What kind of museum is the Philbrook?
Answer: fine art

Question: Where are Thomas Gilcrease's collections housed?
Answer: Gilcrease Museum of Tulsa

Question: Where does Oklahoma have a fine Egyptian art collection?
Answer: Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee

Question: Where is the largest collection of Dale Chinuly's work?
Answer: Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Question: What kind of art did Dale Chinuly make?
Answer: glass sculptures

Question: Where is the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: Where is the largest Jewish art collection in the southwest?
Answer: Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art of Tulsa

Question: When was Oklahoma's centennial year?
Answer: 2007

Question: When was the exact hundredth anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood?
Answer: November 16, 2007

Question: What organization said Oklahoma's centennial was the top event in the US that year?
Answer: American Bus Association

Question: What do ethnic festivals depict?
Answer: cultural heritage or traditions

Question: How long is the State Fair of Oklahoma?
Answer: 10-day

Question: Where is the State Fair of Oklahoma?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: How many people attend the State Fair of Oklahoma each year?
Answer: roughly one million

Question: How long is the Tulsa State Fair?
Answer: 10-day

Question: How many people attend the Tulsa State Fair each year?
Answer: over one million

Question: When did the Medieval Fair of Norman begin?
Answer: 1976

Question: Where was Oklahoma's first medieval fair?
Answer: Norman

Question: Where was the Medieval Fair of Norman held for its first 2 years?
Answer: the south oval of the University of Oklahoma campus

Question: Where was the Medieval Fair of Norman held from 1978 to 2002?
Answer: Duck Pond in Norman

Question: Where has the Medieval Fair of Norman been held since 2003?
Answer: Reaves Park

Question: How many students were in Oklahoma's public schools in 2008?
Answer: 638,817