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By 1860, which of the following was the only institution of higher learning in present West Virginia?
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Who documented schoolteachers in the Moorefield area as early as 1748?
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Which county closed schools for several days in 1974 due to a protest over textbooks?
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In which county is the Mountaineer ChalleNGe Academy located?
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This institution of higher learning also serves as home to the West Virginia State Folk Festival.
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Both Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and baseball player John Kruk attended this institution of higher learning.
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At its founding in 1961, this was the only institution of higher learning in the Ohio River Valley between Wheeling and Huntington?
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This person established the first teacher-training program at what is now West Virginia State University and was the first superintendent of the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls in Huntington.
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Which southern writer, known as one of the "Fugitives" who advanced agrarian values in his literature, once chaired the West Virginia University English department?
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Which one of these former West Virginia University leaders has a building named for him on the Morgantown campus?
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