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What is the only remaining amusement park in West Virginia?
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What was the earliest known West Virginia city to have an organized baseball team?
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Who was WVU's lead sports broadcaster on radio from 1947 to 1997 (with the exception of 1970-73)?
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While leading WVU to three straight Southern Conference titles in the 1950s, this Charleston native became known as the "clown prince of college basketball."
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What Wheeling native hit the first walk-off home run to win a World Series (1960) ?
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Shenandoah Downs, one of the East Coast's first night horse racing tracks, opened in what town in 1959?
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Who was the first WVU graduate elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
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After his retirement from baseball, what Negro Leagues star worked more than 20 years for West Virginia state government?
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What long-time resident of Martinsburg holds the Major League Baseball single-season runs-batted-in (RBI) record?
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Which Boone County football player holds the West Virginia single-season rushing average?
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