Tuesday Trivia: July 14, 2020
Published July 2020
By Greg Elwell | 1 min read
Test your Oklahoma knowledge and win prizes by answering our weekly Tuesday Trivia question. Every week, we’ll choose a winner from the correct respondents to receive a prize—from an Okie sticker to a subscription to Oklahoma Today and more.
Cooperation gets things done and the town of Langston is proof positive of that. Though it was named for John Mercer Langston, an African American educator and U.S. representative from Virginia, this pre-statehood settlement was founded by two men who came together with a common purpose. One was an African American legislator from Kansas who dreamed of building a state where others could escape discrimination. The other was a white landowner who worked with him to promote the town to newcomers by filing a town survey and plat in 1891.
What were the names of the men who worked together to create Langston?
Submit your answer
"Weekly Events Calendar July 13-19, 2020"
"The Candywoman Can (Sort Of)"
You May Like
Weekly Events Calendar: August 24-30, 2026
This week in Oklahoma: a hundred year old rodeo in Miami, striking oil in Glenpool, and all about monarchs in Tulsa
This week in Oklahoma: a hundred year old rodeo in Miami, striking oil in Glenpool, and all about monarchs in Tulsa
Oklahoma Today Show: August 3, 2026
Oklahoma City's Le Parisien is the subject of this week's episode, featuring a delicious French menu and, of course, escargot.
Oklahoma City's Le Parisien is the subject of this week's episode, featuring a delicious French menu and, of course, escargot.
String Fling
Oklahoma is alive with the sound of music thanks to creative, passionate, and dedicated luthiers.
Oklahoma is alive with the sound of music thanks to creative, passionate, and dedicated luthiers.