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Test your Kentucky Knowledge 
1.  What notorious outlaw, along with his four gang members, robbed the 
Southern bank in Russellville of nine thousand dollars on March 20,
1868?

2.  On what date did Kentucky became a state?


3.  How many men were involved in the French-Eversol feud were 
killed in the Hazard County courthouse shoot-out of 1888?


4.  How much was James Taylor paid in 1795 for land on which to 
erect Campbell County's first courthouse?


5.  As an Indian captive, who became the first white woman to visit
the Kentucky region?


6.  How many Kentuckians served in the military during World War I?


7.  Cynthiana was captured by what Confederate general in both 1862
and 1864?


8.  What nickname was given to the Confederate First Kentucky
Calvary  because of its high mortality rate?


9.  In what year was Kentucky's second constitution adopted?


10. Whose body was brought from Missouri and re-interred at Frankfort
Cemetery on September 13, 1845?



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