The answers are…..

Day three of our 2009-2010 Oklahoma Almanac celebration. Did you think I would leave you all weekend without the answers, along with the Almanac page number where you will find the answer.

1. Oklahoma means “Red People” in the Choctaw Language. (Page 2)

2. Northern Oklahoma and much of the central part of the state are in the drainage basin of the Arkansas River. The remainder of the state is in the drainage basin of the Red River. (Page 12)

3. The Oklahoma Rose is the official State Flower. Mistletoe, the oldest of Oklahoma’s symbols, is the State Floral Emblem. (Page 57)

4. Fourteen flags have flown over our land. The first flag was the Royal Standard of Spain, brought to Oklahoma by Coronado in 1541. (Page 60)

5. The six tourism countries are: Frontier Country (central Oklahoma), Great Plains Country (southwest), Green Country (northeast), Kiamichi Country (southeast), Arbuckle Country (south central), and Red Carpet Country (northwest). (Pages 49-55)

6. Chickasaw storyteller Te Ata was named the state’s first Cultural Treasure in 1987. (Page 40)

7. The five Oklahoma Counties with names beginning with the letter “G” are Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant and Greer. (Pages 428 to 437)

8. Osage County is the largest at 2,303.8 square miles. The smallest? That title goes to Washington County at 424.15 square miles. It beats out the larger Murray County (424.92 square miles) by just a fraction. Also-ran Marshall County has 426.95 square miles. (All kinds of comparative facts and trivia can be culled by browsing the Almanac’s section on Oklahoma Counties beginning on page 375.)

9. Oklahoma did not have a first lady from 1911 until 1919. Chickie LeFlore Cruce died before her husband, Lee Cruce, became Governor. His successor, Governor Robert Lee Williams, never married. (Page 765)

10. Sixty-two Sooners have been named Rhodes Scholars by the University of Oxford, England. (Pages 918 and 919)

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