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Which TWO of the following scenic attractions were used for military training during World War II?
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Wayne County native Fanny Belle Fleming later gained renown as an entertainer using what pseudonym?
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Charleston native John C. Norman Jr. was a pioneer in what field?
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In 1920, a member of this prominent Wheeling family cast the decisive vote in favor of women's suffrage in West Virginia.
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This Pocahontas County native was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Alexander Campbell of Brooke County founded this Christian denomination.
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Rebecca Harding Davis wrote about iron workers in this city.
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Donald F. Duncan, who grew up in Huntington, invented this.
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Among the 50 states, where does West Virginia rank nationally in coal production?
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In what county was the Fokker Aircraft Plant?
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