| This state capital was once called Louisbourg |
Harrisburg |
200 |
June 15, 2009 |
| Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, Fastnachts are donuts & Fastnacht Day is this religious Tuesday |
Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday) |
400 |
June 15, 2009 |
| The site of the USA's worst accident at one of these facilities, Pennsylvania still has 5, including Peach Bottom |
a nuclear power plant |
600 |
June 15, 2009 |
| 60% of Pennsylvania is covered by this, which gives the state part of its name |
woods (or forests) |
800 |
June 15, 2009 |
| This city in the western part of the state has a maritime museum |
Erie |
|
June 15, 2009 |
| Pennsylvania's first synagogue was dedicated in 1782 in this city |
Philadelphia |
200 |
January 25, 2002 |
| This city was made the state capital in 1812 |
Harrisburg |
400 |
January 25, 2002 |
| The first 2 picks in the 2000 NFL draft were from this institution known as "Linebacker U." |
Penn St. |
600 |
January 25, 2002 |
| In 1609 this English explorer sailed into Penn.'s Delaware Bay; he later had his own bay named for him |
Henry Hudson |
800 |
January 25, 2002 |
| The 6 states that border Pennsylvania are Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware & these 2 |
New Jersey & New York |
1000 |
January 25, 2002 |
| Besides Harrisburg, 1 of 2 other cities that served as state capital |
Philadelphia |
100 |
July 11, 1996 |
| The Amish, Moravians & Mennonites are parts of the group collectively known as this |
Pennsylvania Dutch |
200 |
July 11, 1996 |
| In 1889, 1936 & 1977, this city in the Conemaugh Valley was hit by disastrous floods |
Johnstown |
300 |
July 11, 1996 |
| A town is named for this winner of the pentathlon & decathlon at the 1912 Olympics |
Jim Thorpe |
400 |
July 11, 1996 |
| These mountains lent their names to Penn State's Lions |
the Nittany Mountains |
500 |
July 11, 1996 |
| Opened in 1940, it's America's oldest superhighway |
the Pennsylvania Turnpike |
100 |
January 26, 1988 |
| The American Federation of Labor was founded in this industrial city |
Pittsburgh |
200 |
January 26, 1988 |
| The Pennsylvania Dutch aren't of Dutch descent but of this ethnic group |
German |
300 |
January 26, 1988 |
| Pennsylvania did this 2nd, just 5 days after Delaware did it 1st |
ratify the Constitution |
400 |
January 26, 1988 |
| It's said the Union was framed at Philadelphia & preserved 87 years later at this Pennsylvania town |
Gettysburg |
500 |
January 26, 1988 |
| Composer of "My Old Kentucky Home" who was born & is buried in Pittsburgh |
Stephen Foster |
100 |
March 11, 1986 |
| Most of America's coal of this variety is found in Pennsylvania |
anthracite (hard coal) |
200 |
March 11, 1986 |
| Opened in 1940, it was America's 1st trans-state superhighway |
the Pennsylvania Turnpike |
300 |
March 11, 1986 |
| Moravian Count Zinzendorf gave this town its name as he listened to carols on Christmas Eve |
Bethlehem |
400 |
March 11, 1986 |
| Only president from Pennsylvania & only one to never marry |
James Buchanan |
500 |
March 11, 1986 |