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These questions are about people from Arkansas or who made important visits to Arkansas.

• Who Founded Arkansas Post?<---- Click Here to See the Answer!
  •  Henry de Tonty
     
• What country singer from Kingsland wrote "A Boy Named Sue"?
  •  Johnny Cash
     
• What explorer first entered Arkansas in 1541?
  •  Henri De Soto
     
• Who was the earliest French visitor to the state?
  •  Francis Jolliet
     
• What Frenchman claimed all the land west of the Mississippi in the name of France?
  •  Robert Cavalier de La Salle
     
• What country legend singer was born in Billstown?
  •  Glen Campbell
     
• What great general was born in the Old Federal Arsenal Building in Little Rock?
  •  General Douglas MacArthur
     
• Who was Arkansas' first explorer?
  •  Hernando de Soto
     
• Who was the state's first territorial governor?
  •  James Miller
     
• What Arkansas governor was elected president of the United States in 1992?
  •  Bill Clinton
     
• Who was the state's first governor?
  •  James S. Conway