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Capital
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Bismarck
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Largest City
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Fargo
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The next largest cities
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Grand Forks
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Minot
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West Fargo
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Williston
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Dickinson
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Mandan
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Jamestown
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Bordering states
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Minnesota
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Montana
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South Dakota
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Bordering Canadian provinces
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Manitoba
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Saskatchewan
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North Dakota is part of what large, flat region of North America?
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Great Plains
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Term for a temperate grassland ecosystem
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prairie
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Most of North Dakota has what climate classification?
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warm-summer humid continental
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Highest point (3508 ft/1069 m)
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White Butte
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The Laurentian Divide or Northern Divide passes through North Dakota and separates the waters that flow where?
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Hudson Bay
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Gulf of Mexico
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Most of North Dakota is covered with rolling hills and small lakes, carved by what between 95,000 and 20,000 years ago?
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glacier (the Laurentide Ice Sheet)
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The eastern part of the state is very flat because it was under what lake following this period?
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Lake Agassiz
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Wooded plateau in the middle of the northern border
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Turtle Mountain(s)
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Semi-arid region in the southwest of the state comprised of rugged gullies and buttes eroded out of layered clay soil
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Badlands
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Gravel roads in this region are pink, due to the use of what rock formed from clay sediment baked by burning coal veins?
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porcellanite clinker (colloquially "scoria")
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River that flows through the heart of this region
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Little Missouri River
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Largest river
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Missouri River
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Large river that enters North Dakota from the west just a few miles before its confluence with the above
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Yellowstone River
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River that forms most of the eastern border
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Red River
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River that forms the southern part of the eastern border
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Bois de Sioux River
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Other major rivers
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James River
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Sheyenne River
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Souris River
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Largest natural lake, an endorheic lake
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Devils Lake
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Largest lakes (manmade)
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Lake Oahe
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Lake Sakakawea
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Dam that formed the above lake
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Garrison Dam
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Town which purports to be the geographical center of North America
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Rugby
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Town which is actually the geographical center of North America, according to a 2016 study (no pun intended)
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Center
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Interstate highways
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I-29
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I-94
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U.S. highways (having over 100 independently signed miles in North Dakota)
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US-2
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US-52
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US-281
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US-83
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US-85
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Time zones
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Central Time
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Mountain Time
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Number of counties
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53
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Rodents that build underground "towns" which can house thousands of individuals
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prairie dogs
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North America's most endangered mammal, which preys on the above
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black-footed ferret
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Largest wild carnivore
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mountain lion
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The fastest animal on land in the Americas
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pronghorn
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Species of deer
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moose
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elk (wapiti)
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white-tailed deer
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mule deer
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Species of wild sheep
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bighorn sheep
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National Park
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Park that spans the international border
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International Peace Garden
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Native American peoples that comprise the Three Affiliated Tribes
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Mandan
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Hidatsa
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Arikara
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Other federally recognized Indian tribes
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Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Sioux/Dakota)
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Spirit Lake Tribe (Sioux/Dakota)
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Standing Rock Sioux (Dakota & Lakota)
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Turtle Mountain Chippewa (Ojibwe)
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Dome-shaped Native American dwellings in riverside villages
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earth lodges
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Rock quarried in North Dakota and traded across a huge area of North America by Native Americans
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Knife River flint
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Explorers who spent time in North Dakota during their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
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Lewis and Clark
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The name of their expedition
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Corps of Discovery
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Their Native American guide and interpreter
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Sacagawea
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Building material used by homesteaders in places where there were few trees
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sod
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Territory North Dakota was a part of before it became a state
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Dakota Territory
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Large, industrialized wheat farms of the late 19th century
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bonanza farms
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President who, in 1889, shuffled the statehood bills on his desk before and after signing them, so no one actually knows whether North Dakota or South Dakota became a state first
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Benjamin Harrison
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19th-century transcontinental railroads that traversed North Dakota
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Northern Pacific Railway
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Great Northern Railway
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Left-wing rural populist political movement that controlled the state government from 1918 to 1921 and continued to wield significant power through the 1950s.
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Nonpartisan League
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The only state-owned institution of its kind in the US
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Bank of North Dakota
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The only state-owned industrial facility of its kind in the US, and also the largest in the US
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North Dakota Mill and Elevator
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North Dakota's largest crop by acreage. It is the #2 producer.
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wheat
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North Dakota is the #1 producer of these oilseed crops, producing over 75% of the US's total.
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canola
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flax
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North Dakota is the #2 producer of this oilseed crop.
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sunflowers
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North Dakota is the #1 producer of this grain.
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oats
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North Dakota is the #1 producer of this variety of wheat, used to make pasta.
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durum
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North Dakota is the #1 or #2 producer of these legumes.
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black beans
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navy beans
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pinto beans
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peas (dry)
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lentils
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North Dakota is the #1 producer of this sweet agricultural product.
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honey
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North Dakota is the #2 producer of oil, thanks to a 21st-century boom centered around this oil-bearing rock formation.
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Bakken shale
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Technologies that have enabled the commercial extraction of oil from this formation
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hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")
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horizontal drilling
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North Dakota has the world's largest known deposit of this kind of coal.
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lignite
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North Dakota has the US's only commerical-scale facility that turns coal into what?
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natural gas
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Second-largest source of electricity in North Dakota, behind coal
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wind
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North Dakota has two of these military establishments.
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Air Force bases
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North Dakota is one of only two states where these bomber aircraft are stationed.
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B-52
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North Dakota has 150 Minuteman III units. What are they?
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nuclear missiles
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North Dakota is the only state in which this number decreased during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
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unemployment
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A manmade structure in North Dakota was the world's tallest from 1991 to 2008. What is it for?
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television transmission
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The town of Dunseith has the world's largest sculpture of a turtle. What is it made of?
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car wheels
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Rural highway decorated with huge metal sculptures
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Enchanted Highway
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North Dakota has more of these buildings per capita than any other state
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churches
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States with a smaller population than North Dakota
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Alaska
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Wyoming
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Vermont
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The largest group of North Dakotans (35%) trace their ancestry to this country.
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Germany
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24% of North Dakotans trace their ancestry to this country, by far the highest rate of any state.
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Norway
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Only 0.42% of North Dakotans trace their ancestry to this country, but that's by far the highest rate of any state. They live mainly in the northeast of the state, where there's a state park named after them.
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Iceland
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Largest branch of Christianity
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Lutheran
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North Dakota has the US's oldest religious building of this kind.
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mosque
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North America's largest annual Scandinavian heritage festival
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Norsk Høstfest
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North Dakota is the only state which does not have this in its election process.
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voter registration
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North Dakota State University's mascot
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Bison
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The University of North Dakota's mascot
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Hawks
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The University of North Dakota is one of the NCAA's most dominant teams in what sport?
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men's ice hockey
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Official state nickname
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the Peace Garden State
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State nickname (in honor of Theodore Roosevelt)
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the Rough Rider State
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State nickname (a Native American people)
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the Sioux State
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State nickname (a rodent)
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the Flickertail State
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Most prominent object on the state flag
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bald eagle
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Animal on the state quarter
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bison
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State bird
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western meadowlark
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State tree
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American elm
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State fish
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northern pike
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State flower
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wild prairie rose
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State insect
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ladybug
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State fruit
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chokecherry
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State beverage
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milk
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State dance
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square dance
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State motto, a quote from Daniel Webster
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Liberty
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and union
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now
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and forever,
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one
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and inseparable
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Number of domes on the state capitol building
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0
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I recommend that you look up pictures of the North Dakota Badlands and the canola and flax fields.