Test your knowledge of Minnesota pioneer life of the 1800's!

2. Pioneer Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

3. Select a point value! Click here for Final Jeopardy

4. Land Daily Life Food Homes Odds-n-Ends 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points Vehicles

5. A moving body of water that is smaller than a river

6. What is a creek?

7. A small, rounded hill

8. What is a knoll?

9. The top layer of soil that is attached to grass

10. What is sod?

11. A thick patch of trees or bushes

12. What is a thicket?

13. An area of land that is owned by the government

14. What is a territory?

15. A large pile of hay that is stacked outside

16. What is a haystack?

17. A cotton fabric with a design

18. What is calico?

19. A handheld chalkboard

20. What is a slate?

21. A person who is the first to settle in a new land

22. What is a pioneer?

23. A tool that looks like a sword on a stick and is used to mow the prairie

24. What is a scythe?

25. A vehicle with four wheels that is pulled by large animals

26. What is a wagon?

27. Material used for the box of a wagon

28. What is wood?

29. Used to fix squeaky wheels

30. What is animal grease?

31. Material used to cover wagons

32. What is canvas?

33. Type of wagon used for the Westward migration

34. What is a Conestoga Wagon?

35. Fruit that has sweet flesh and a smooth pit and skin

36. What is a plum?

37. Red, blue, purple, green, and yellow

38. What are the colors of plums?

39. A container used to make butter

40. What is a churn?

41. Animal food that is gathered in a large pile and stacked outside

42. What is a haystack?

43. A store that sold food and supplies to pioneers

44. What is a mercantile?

45. A place where a group of people live near one another

46. What is a community?

47. A home that was “dug out” of the earth

48. What is a dugout?

49. The land and buildings a person owns

50. What is a homestead?

51. A small addition to a building

52. What is a lean-to?

53. A vehicle’s material that was often used to build a lean-to

54. What is lumber from a wagon?

55. A huge field of grass

56. What is a prairie?

57. A small and powerful wind storm

58. What is a dust devil?

59. The name of our children’s book about a pioneer family

60. What is On the Banks of Plum Creek ?

61. The main character of the real-life story On the Banks of Plum Creek

62. Who is Laura Ingalls?

63. The year Minnesota became a state

64. What is 1858?

65. Final Jeopardy Make your wager

66. This Act gave pioneers free land if they lived on and cared for it for at least 5 years

67. What is the Homestead Act?