State Quiz - Ohio

Can you guess these facts about the U.S. state of Ohio?
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Last updated: August 30, 2020
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First submittedJuly 6, 2013
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Capital city
Columbus
Second largest city
Cleveland
Third largest city
Cincinnati
Fourth largest city, named for a city in Spain
Toledo
Great Lake that borders Ohio
Erie
Term popularized by DJ Alan Freed in the early 1950s
Rock & Roll
Inventor born in Milan, Ohio
Thomas Edison
State nickname
The Buckeye State
Birthplace of Aviation
"Rubber Capital" city / birthplace of LeBron James
Akron
Ohio is this type of state in Presidential elections
Swing State
University where four protesters were killed in 1970
Kent State
First American to orbit the Earth, later a U.S. senator
John Glenn
Biggest amusement park
Cedar Point
City of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Canton
Musical TV comedy set in Lima, Ohio
Glee
City where Bosnian peace accords were signed
Dayton
Inventors from the above city who changed the world in 1903
Wright Brothers
What happened to the Cuyahoga River many times, most famously in 1969
It Caught Fire
Seven of these people were born in Ohio, more than any state except Virginia
Presidents
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Level 21
Nov 9, 2013
Nothing about the Columbus Blue Jackets? hmm...
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Level 44
Jul 16, 2014
Did you know Ohio is the only state with a city/village that starts with every letter in the alphabet? Here's a fun quiz to see how many you can name:

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/103225/ohio-cities-a-z

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Level 44
Jan 13, 2015
xenia :)
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Level 75
Jan 22, 2021
Have to admit I thought of this when stopping for gas in Zanesville.
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Level 75
Nov 3, 2014
No love for the Toledo Mud Hens? Corporal Klinger was their greatest fan.
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Level 66
Sep 18, 2015
Where is Wendy's (The fast food chain).
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Level 81
Aug 8, 2017
There's one off I70 on Rte 72, Exit 54 I think.
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Level 81
Aug 8, 2017
#rimshot
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Level 89
Jan 22, 2021
According to their website, there are approximately 410 Wendy's locations in Ohio.
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Level 39
Apr 12, 2016
"Kent" should be an acceptable answer.
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Level ∞
May 3, 2017
Okay
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2021
nah
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Level 84
May 25, 2016
No question about the unique flag?? At least it's shown in the picture.
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Level 88
Aug 9, 2017
I thought there would be too...I was all set to type "burgee," but the chance never came. :(
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Level 44
Jul 29, 2016
More Ohio trivia: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/103225/ohio-trivia-2
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Level 78
Jan 22, 2021
That quiz doesn't seem to exist anymore but the user made one about Ohio Cities A-Z
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Level 84
Mar 28, 2017
What? Nothing about the Cincinnati Stingers who played in the World Hockey Association from 1975 until the league folded in 1979?

Kidding. Just kidding.

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Level 75
Aug 8, 2017
I thought one of the nicknames was Birthplace of Presidents. If not for the Wright Brothers question I would never have thought of the correct answer.
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Level 67
Aug 10, 2017
Yes, I have heard both "birthplace of presidents" and "birthplace of astronauts." The presidents one is rarer in my experience, probably because Ohio is still second to Virginia in presidents, and because most of Ohio's presidents, frankly, were not memorable. And those who were memorable were memorable for the wrong reasons.
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Level 30
Aug 11, 2017
"Birthplace of aviation" has is on a lot of Ohio license plates. There's a feud between us and North Carolina whose motto is "first in flight" because the Wright brothers were from Ohio and built their planes there, but traveled to North Carolina to test it.
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Level 84
Sep 6, 2020
I think the motto is "Birthplace of Modern Presidents" or something similar since most of the presidents from Virginia served during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Also kept trying birthplace of "flight" instead of "aviation". Grrrrr....
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Level 71
Jan 22, 2021
What about Warren G. Harding? Amazing President right there. As a matter of fact, they should rename the state after him, if not the entire country.
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Level 75
Jan 22, 2021
If only Nate Dogg had been his running mate.
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2021
Maybe they should name a mountain after McKinley and stop fighting with Alaska over Denali.
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Level 59
Aug 8, 2017
Special shout-out to who did the first Script Ohio -- the University of Michigan Marching Band. You're welcome, OSU.
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Level 64
Aug 8, 2017
There obviously needs to be a question about Cincinatti-style chili.
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Level 67
Aug 10, 2017
Chili mac!
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Level 84
Aug 31, 2020
Too many t's, not enough n's in "Cincinatti".
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Level 35
Aug 20, 2017
i thought i was the only one who gave fun facts
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Level 43
Jul 30, 2019
This should be a yellow box quiz. I typed all the big ones without even reading the clues.
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Level 57
Jan 24, 2021
All I had to do was type all the ohio cities I knew and I had a 50%
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Level 85
Aug 30, 2020
What's the difference between a swing state and a battleground state?
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Level 87
Aug 31, 2020
I agree... I believe you should accept "battleground".
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Level 86
Aug 30, 2020
Shouldn't this be called *THE* Ohio State Quiz? ;)
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Level 87
Aug 31, 2020
For us it's funny, but no one from outside the US will get the joke in that comment. :)
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Level 84
Aug 31, 2020
Technical point, but not all of the students killed at Kent State were protesters. Sandra Scheuer was merely walking between classes. Some reports state that was also the case with William Schroeder. Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller were protesting.

The young man shown lying face down in the famous photo from that day was Jeffrey Miller, who had been shot and died instantly.

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Level 75
Jan 26, 2021
Agree.
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Level 75
Sep 1, 2020
Could you accept "burn"/"burned" for the river one?
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Level 75
Jan 22, 2021
I tried this.
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Level 78
Apr 28, 2021
Agreed.
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Level 59
Jan 22, 2021
I weirdly hallucinated that one of the questions was, "Good morning" in Japanese sounds like Ohio. What is it?

I don't even know Japanese, googled it and guess what... it's Ohayo

What is even happening to me

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Level 55
Jan 22, 2021
lol it was on here somewhere. I saw it too! Unless.. we're both crazy...
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Level 72
Jan 22, 2021
I have heard many people say Ohio is the "birthplace of flight." Can you accept flight as an answer?
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Level 68
Jan 22, 2021
jesus i know nothing about the usa after all
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Level 65
Jan 22, 2021
Yay, my old home state (you can't track me now, I said old)
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Level 48
Jun 14, 2021
Ohio is pretty big
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Level 68
Jan 22, 2021
I learned that I don't know much about Ohio...
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Level 71
Jan 22, 2021
Does Ohio really count as a swing state anymore?
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Level 78
Jan 22, 2021
It definitely wasn't particularly important in the last 2 elections, but this may have just happened because some of Donald Trump's rhetoric was designed to appeal to Rust Belt voters. It could become a swing state again if we return to more "standard" Republican candidates.
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Level 67
Feb 6, 2021
I don't know. It's a pretty white state. As Democrats cater more and more to social justice and racial equity issues, I think you'll see the Rust Belt push right. Those people feel forgotten. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (along with Georgia) went to Biden because black people voted in record numbers -- probably because Biden is so popular with the black community and because Trump spent four years belittling racial grievance and mocking the Black Lives Matter movement. Unless Democrats can repeat that level of turnout in future elections, which I personally think is unlikely, the Rust Belt will push right as the Sun Belt pushes left. Ohio is already the most predictably red state in that region, so I think it's set in stone now, unless Democrats start prioritizing unions again (shout out to Marty Walsh!). Just one man's opinion.
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Level 66
Apr 16, 2023
Ehh… Indiana might be more solidly red by now.
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Level 71
Jan 15, 2022
I mean, after the election I heard a statistic that one-third of black men in the Midwest voted for Trump (source). It might be hard to believe, but I think the fact that many black men work blue-collar jobs and are already distrustful of the establishment may have drawn some of them to Trump. Also, even if Ohio is very white in rural areas, cities like Cleveland and Cincinnati have tons of black people. Even if most of voters who swung from Obama to Trump are white, I wouldn't discount this small but notable shift in the black vote.
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Level 71
Jan 22, 2021
Thousands of huge cities all over the world, and my current hometown is an answer on a JetPunk quiz. Kinda cool. :)
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Level 62
Feb 25, 2021
High five! Though I am from The Ruhr, and everyone on here only knows us by that term. I'd be surprised if anyone could actually name 3 cities from here.
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2021
When I saw television show and music, my first thought was WKRP in Cincinnati. (Yes, I know it's not a musical which is why my second thought was the correct answer.) I think any television show which popularized the Silver Sow award deserves a mention in this quiz.
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Level 48
Jun 14, 2021
Cedar point is amazing!
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Level 71
Jul 22, 2021
There's a lot of questions about various cities in Ohio. There must not be much else to know about that state.
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Level 58
Aug 2, 2021
CP and Kings Island are the same size: 364 acres
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Level 50
Nov 30, 2021
As a fellow Michigander, I believe that Oh*o is even worse than Fr*nce.
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Level 55
Mar 10, 2022
Hang on, why is there a quiz about a state that doesn't exist?
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Level 71
May 7, 2022
Hang on, Sloopy! O-H-I-O!
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Level 61
May 2, 2022
ok so today was the day i found out i knew more about east timor than the state where i was born
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Level 61
May 19, 2022
Perhaps accept "purple" for "swing?"
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Level 24
May 23, 2022
I don't understand, Ohio doesn't exist where are these answers coming from
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Level 60
Nov 28, 2022
Nah Wyoming doesn’t exist - Ohio is where all the bad things happen.
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Level 76
Sep 11, 2022
Only two protestors were killed. The other two were walking across campus, taking no part in the protests.
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Level 52
Nov 30, 2022
cant even pass a quiz in ohio smh 💀
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Level 75
Apr 26, 2023
fr bro
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Level 55
Feb 17, 2023
Please accept "Lake Erie" on the 5th question. It only accepted the response after I deleted the "Lake" and left just "Erie"
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Level ∞
Feb 17, 2023
Fixed
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Level 50
Mar 14, 2023
down in ohio
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Level 75
Apr 26, 2023
swag like ohio
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Level 29
Mar 22, 2023
Im from Ohio and i don't think i deserve to live here anymore
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Level 75
Apr 26, 2023
only in ohio
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Level 64
Sep 30, 2023
Cant even play jetpunk on ohio